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golang-stay-updated

Golang ecosystem watch list — official sources (go.dev/blog, pkg.go.dev, tour.golang.org, golang-nuts), newsletters (Golang Weekly, Awesome Go Newsletter), communities (r/golang, gophers.slack.com, Go Forum, go.dev/wiki), blogs (Dave Cheney, Ardan Labs, Rob Pike), YouTube channels (Gopher Academy, GopherCon EU/UK), conferences, and Go contributors to follow on GitHub, X and Bluesky. Use when seeking Golang learning resources, discovering new libraries or tools, finding community channels or meetups, picking Go people to follow, or keeping up with Go language changes and releases. Not for querying a specific module's versions, docs, or vulnerabilities from the CLI (→ See `samber/cc-skills-golang@golang-pkg-go-dev` skill).

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Quality

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

71%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A well-organized, information-dense watch list with real URLs and handles throughout, weakened by all reference content living inline in SKILL.md, a header/content mismatch in the first table, and sparse people-table rows. Splitting the developer tables into a references file and tightening the generic tips would raise it substantially.

Suggestions

Move the five 'Famous Go Developers' tables into a references/ file (e.g. references/people.md) and keep a one-line summary per category in SKILL.md, so only the relevant person data loads into context.

Fix the 'Official Go Resources' table so the URL column contains actual links (go.dev, pkg.go.dev, tour.golang.org, play.golang.org, go.dev/blog) instead of descriptions.

Trim low-value rows (people listed with only a GitHub handle and no other channel) and the decorative intro sentence to tighten token usage.

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Conciseness

The body is dense curated reference data (URLs, handles) that Claude does not reliably know, with no padding explaining what Go is. It falls just below the 5 anchor because of the decorative intro ('A curated guide to keeping your finger on the pulse'), a 6-row official-resources table that largely restates common knowledge, and many near-empty rows in the people tables where only a GitHub handle is listed.

4 / 5

Actionability

Mostly concrete guidance: real URLs for newsletters, Slack invite, forum, blogs, and YouTube channels, plus actionable tips ('Join Go Slack', 'Check Go.dev/blog weekly'). Minor gaps keep it below 5 — the 'Official Go Resources' table's URL column actually contains descriptions instead of links, and tips like 'Follow 10-20 key people' are generic advice rather than copy-paste-ready direction.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The single action (consult the well-labeled section matching the user's need) is unambiguous, but the body sits between the simple-skill 5 exception and anchor 4: the numbered 'Quick Tips' are advisory recommendations rather than an operational sequence, and there is no guidance on how to prioritize or combine sources for a given request. It clearly exceeds anchor 3, where steps would be absent or incoherent.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Sections are clearly labeled and easy to navigate, but ~120 lines of reference data are entirely inline with no bundle files or external references, so the under-50-line exception does not apply. The large 'Famous Go Developers' tables (~60 lines across five sub-sections) are exactly the content a references/ file would hold, leaving SKILL.md as a leaner index — matching the anchor of content that should be separate kept inline.

3 / 5

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Description

95%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description that clearly states what the skill contains, when to use it, and what it is not for, with concrete named resources and natural trigger phrases in third-person voice. The only weakness is that a few categories ('conferences', 'Go contributors') are named without examples.

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Specificity

The description enumerates concrete, named resources across categories ('official sources (go.dev/blog, pkg.go.dev, tour.golang.org, golang-nuts)', 'newsletters (Golang Weekly, Awesome Go Newsletter)', 'communities (r/golang, gophers.slack.com, Go Forum)'). It stops short of the 5 anchor because 'conferences' and 'Go contributors to follow' are mentioned without any named examples, leaving minor gaps in coverage.

4 / 5

Completeness

Both questions are answered explicitly: the 'what' is a concrete watch list of enumerated resource categories, and the 'when' is an explicit 'Use when...' clause with concrete trigger phrases. It matches the 5 anchor's pattern of a clear what plus explicit when.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Natural user phrasings are comprehensively covered with both Go/Golang synonyms: 'seeking Golang learning resources', 'discovering new libraries or tools', 'finding community channels or meetups', 'picking Go people to follow', 'keeping up with Go language changes and releases'. Named entities users would actually mention (r/golang, Golang Weekly, Dave Cheney) add further trigger surface.

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The niche (staying current with the Go ecosystem) is clearly distinct, and the 'Not for querying a specific module's versions, docs, or vulnerabilities from the CLI (→ See `samber/cc-skills-golang@golang-pkg-go-dev` skill)' clause explicitly redirects the nearest overlapping use case to a sibling skill, minimizing conflict risk.

5 / 5

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Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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'metadata' should map string keys to string values

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Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository

samber/cc-skills-golang

Path

skills/golang-stay-updated/SKILL.md

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