Go Testing

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Improving Go test code — including table-driven tests
• Assertions with cmp.Diff
• A user asks to write a test for a Go function
• Even if they dont mention specific patterns like table-driven tests

Example prompts

• “/go-testing”

Requirements

• A Bash shell
• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Bash(bash:*)

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 91f0c2e. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Bash(bash:*)

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Go and Shell), which the agent can run.

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • go

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Go Testing loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~6.3k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 98 tokens; SKILL.md has 490 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~98

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.3k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~6.3k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from cxuu/golang-skills at commit 91f0c2e, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© cxuu). 490 words, ~1,340 tokens.

name

go-testing

description

Use when writing, reviewing, or improving Go test code — including table-driven tests, subtests, parallel tests, test helpers, test doubles, and assertions with cmp.Diff. Also use when a user asks to write a test for a Go function, even if they don't mention specific patterns like table-driven tests or subtests. Does not cover benchmark performance testing (see go-performance).

allowed-tools

Bash(bash:*)

// Good:
t.Errorf("Add(2, 3) = %d, want %d", got, 5)

// Bad: Missing function name and inputs
t.Errorf("got %d, want %d", got, 5)

if diff := cmp.Diff(want, got); diff != "" {
    t.Errorf("GetPost() mismatch (-want +got):\n%s", diff)
}

func setupTestDB(t *testing.T) *sql.DB {
    t.Helper()
    db, err := sql.Open("sqlite3", ":memory:")
    if err != nil {
        t.Fatalf("Could not open database: %v", err)
    }
    t.Cleanup(func() { db.Close() })
    return db
}

// Bad: Brittle string comparison
if err.Error() != "invalid input" { ... }

// Good: Semantic check
if !errors.Is(err, ErrInvalidInput) { ... }

if gotErr := err != nil; gotErr != tt.wantErr {
    t.Errorf("f(%v) error = %v, want error presence = %t", tt.input, err, tt.wantErr)
}

© cxuu, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 7 other files (scripts, references, assets) in skills/go-testing of cxuu/golang-skills.

• SKILL.md
• assets/table-test-template.go
• references/INTEGRATION.md
• references/TABLE-DRIVEN-TESTS.md
• references/TEST-HELPERS.md
• references/TEST-ORGANIZATION.md
• references/VALIDATION-APIS.md
• scripts/gen-table-test.sh

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 91f0c2e

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in cxuu/golang-skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

• Rain-kl/OpenFlare.agents/skills/go-testing