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.
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npx tessl skill review --optimize ./skills/golang-stay-updated/SKILL.mdQuality
Discovery
89%Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.
This is a solid description that clearly communicates both what the skill does and when to use it, with good trigger term coverage for the Go ecosystem. Its main weakness is that the 'what' portion could be more specific about the concrete outputs or actions (e.g., listing newsletters, recommending blogs, linking to Slack/Discord channels). Overall it performs well for skill selection purposes.
Suggestions
Add more specific concrete actions/outputs, e.g., 'Lists Go newsletters, blogs, podcasts, Slack/Discord communities, and influential developers to follow' to improve specificity.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Specificity | Names the domain (Golang news, communities, people to follow) and some actions (stay updated, discovering libraries, finding community channels), but the actions are more about information provision than concrete specific tasks. It doesn't list specific concrete outputs like 'lists newsletters, recommends Twitter accounts, links to forums.' | 2 / 3 |
Completeness | Clearly 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 explicit trigger guidance. | 3 / 3 |
Trigger Term Quality | Good coverage of natural terms users would say: 'Golang', 'Go', 'learning resources', 'libraries', 'community channels', 'releases', 'news', 'people to follow'. These are terms a user would naturally use when looking for Go ecosystem resources. | 3 / 3 |
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk | Clearly scoped to Go/Golang ecosystem resources, communities, and news — a distinct niche that is unlikely to conflict with general programming skills, Go coding skills, or other language community skills due to the specific language and resource-oriented focus. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |
Implementation
14%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
This skill reads as a curated resource list rather than an actionable skill for Claude. It lacks any concrete instructions, workflows, or executable guidance—it's essentially a bookmark collection of Go community resources and people to follow. The content would benefit from being restructured with a clear purpose (e.g., 'when a user asks about Go resources, recommend from these categories') and the bulk of the reference data moved to supporting files.
Suggestions
Add actionable instructions defining when and how Claude should use this information (e.g., 'When users ask for Go learning resources, recommend based on their experience level: beginners → tour.golang.org, intermediate → newsletters, advanced → conference talks').
Move the extensive developer tables and YouTube channel lists into a separate reference file (e.g., GO_PEOPLE.md, GO_CHANNELS.md) and keep SKILL.md as a concise overview with pointers.
Define a clear workflow for how Claude should respond to different types of resource requests (learning resources vs. community channels vs. staying updated with releases).
Remove the 'Quick Tips for Staying Updated' section which is human-oriented advice, and replace with Claude-specific guidance on how to tailor recommendations to user needs.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The content is mostly well-organized in tables, but includes a lot of information that Claude doesn't need stored in context (specific social media handles, LinkedIn URLs for dozens of developers). The extensive people-to-follow tables are verbose for a skill file and could be trimmed or moved to a reference file. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | This is purely a reference/resource list with no concrete, executable guidance. There are no commands, code snippets, or specific instructions for Claude to follow. The 'Quick Tips' section is advice for humans, not actionable steps for an AI assistant. | 1 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | There is no workflow or process defined. The skill is a static resource list with no sequenced steps, no task to perform, and no validation checkpoints. Claude wouldn't know what to do with this information beyond regurgitating links. | 1 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | All content is in a single monolithic file with no references to supporting files. The extensive tables of developers with social media links could easily be split into a separate reference file, with the main SKILL.md providing a concise overview and pointers. | 1 / 3 |
Total | 5 / 12 Passed |
Validation
81%Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.
Validation — 9 / 11 Passed
Validation for skill structure
| Criteria | Description | Result |
|---|---|---|
metadata_field | 'metadata' should map string keys to string values | Warning |
frontmatter_unknown_keys | Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata | Warning |
Total | 9 / 11 Passed | |
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- samber/cc-skills-golang
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