golang-stay-updated

Provides resources to stay updated with Golang news, communities and people to follow. Use when seeking Go learning resources, discovering new libraries, finding community channels, or keeping up with Go language changes and releases.

Quality

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Quality

Content

75%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.

The body is a clean, well-organized resource directory with actionable subscribe/follow links and a concrete quick-tips workflow. It is lean and assumes Claude's competence, with only minor prose padding and no bundle files to offload the larger tables.

Suggestions

Trim softener prose like 'A curated guide to keeping your finger on the pulse of the Go ecosystem.' and 'Follow these influential Go developers and contributors:' to tighten conciseness.

Consider moving the large developer/contact tables into a references/ file and linking to it from SKILL.md, which would shrink the main body and let progressive_disclosure reach 5.

Drop or date-stamp the time-sensitive '300K+ members' figure to avoid silently stale member counts.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is mostly dense resource tables with little concept explanation Claude already knows, but a few softeners ('A curated guide to keeping your finger on the pulse', 'Follow these influential Go developers and contributors:') and the time-sensitive '300K+ members' figure add minor padding that could be trimmed.	4 / 5
Actionability	As an instruction-only resource skill it gives concrete, actionable guidance with real subscribe/join URLs and a numbered 'Quick Tips' list; it stops short of fully copy-paste-ready commands only because the nature of the skill is pointers rather than code.	4 / 5
Workflow Clarity	The 'Quick Tips for Staying Updated' section provides a clear, sequenced 6-step list of concrete actions, and the skill is single-purpose with no destructive/batch operations requiring validation checkpoints; it is a tips list rather than a strict process with feedback loops, keeping it just below 5.	4 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Content is organized into clearly headed sections (Official Resources, Newsletters, Communities, Developers, Blogs, YouTube, Quick Tips) with one clearly signaled one-level cross-reference ('See samber/cc-skills-golang@golang-pkg-go-dev skill'); no bundle files exist to verify, and the single-file layout is appropriate for a directory skill.	4 / 5
	Total	16 / 20 Passed

Description

78%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.

The description is well-structured with an explicit 'Use when' clause covering both what the skill does and when to invoke it, plus strong natural trigger terms. Its main weakness is the generic 'Provides resources' action verb, which limits the specificity of stated capabilities.

Suggestions

Replace the generic verb 'Provides resources' with more concrete actions such as 'Curates and points to newsletters, communities, blogs, and people to follow'.

Add a couple of natural synonyms/file-adjacent terms (e.g. 'Go releases', 'golang-news', 'GopherCon') to round out trigger coverage toward a 5.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	It names the domain and several content categories ('Golang news, communities and people to follow'), but the only action verb is the generic 'Provides resources', so coverage of concrete actions is limited rather than comprehensive.	3 / 5
Completeness	It explicitly answers both 'what' ('Provides resources to stay updated with Golang news, communities and people to follow') and 'when' ('Use when seeking Go learning resources, discovering new libraries, finding community channels, or keeping up with Go language changes and releases') with concrete trigger phrases.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	The 'Use when' clause lists natural phrases users would say ('seeking Go learning resources', 'discovering new libraries', 'finding community channels', 'keeping up with Go language changes'), giving good keyword coverage with only minor synonyms missing.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	It carves a clear niche (staying updated on the Go ecosystem) with distinct triggers and minimal conflict risk, though it sits within a family of Go skills and could marginally overlap with related Go tooling skills.	4 / 5
	Total	16 / 20 Passed

Validation

93%

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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

Criteria	Description	Result
metadata_field	'metadata' should map string keys to string values	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: samber/cc-skills-golang
Path: skills/golang-stay-updated/SKILL.md
Commit: 30cdf15

Reviewed: 5 days ago

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