Design, implement, stabilize, and review Go CLI tests across fresh command trees, pure logic, table-driven cases, streams, typed configuration, files, environment, function-backed HTTP fakes…

MITAuto-check passedTesting & QA

Install Go CLI Testing

skills CLI
$ npx skills add hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins --skill go-cli-testing -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins go-cli-testing --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/LVTD-LLC/skills/skills/go-cli-testing .claude/skills/go-cli-testing && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
go-cli-testing
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~999 tokens
SKILL.md length
391 words
Files
10 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
736
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Design, implement, stabilize, and review Go CLI tests across fresh command trees, pure logic, table-driven cases, streams, typed configuration, files, environment, function-backed HTTP fakes…

  • Works in 9 steps: Inventory success, invalid, boundary,… → Map each case to a pure, command,… → Inject arguments, streams,… → …
  • Adding command tests
  • SKILL.md covers Core Workflow, Read Next, Guardrails and Source Notes
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Go CLI Testing is an agent skill from hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins. Design, implement, stabilize, and review Go CLI tests across fresh command trees, pure logic, table-driven cases, streams, typed configuration, files, environment, function-backed HTTP fakes, repositories, subprocesses, capability profiles, race checks, and artifact behavior. Use when adding command tests, diagnosing flaky Go tests, choosing test boundaries, or verifying human-, agent-, and CI-facing CLI contracts.

Its SKILL.md is about 1000 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 13 other files, including reference files (for example `agents/openai.yaml`, `guidelines.md` and `references/cli-testing/checklist.md`). Compatibility notes: Codex, Claude Code, and other Agent Skills-compatible clients.

It sits in Testing & QA. The repository describes itself as: A curated list of awesome OpenAI Codex / ChatGPT plugins, skills, and resources. The 1 Codex Marketplace. See live plugins at: https://hol.org/plugins/best-codex-plugins. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Adding command tests
  • Diagnosing flaky Go tests
  • Choosing test boundaries
  • Verifying human-

Example prompts

  • “/go-cli-testing”

Requirements

  • Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Codex, Claude Code, and other Agent Skills-compatible clients.

Workflow steps

9 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Inventory success, invalid, boundary, dependency-failure, and cancellation behavior.
  2. Map each case to a pure, command, adapter, integration, or binary test.
  3. Inject arguments, streams, configuration, clocks, and effectful dependencies.
  4. Isolate files, environment, servers, repositories, ports, and subprocesses.
  5. Assert stdout, stderr, exit behavior, and errors according to the public contract.
  6. Gate live or platform-specific tests and make their changes reversible.
  7. Run standard, race, tagged, and relevant platform checks.
  8. Execute every supported build profile and smoke-test final artifacts.
  9. Interpret coverage gaps without treating execution as behavioral proof.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 16b4156. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

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

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • pragprog.com
    • pkg.go.dev

    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.

  • Compatibility

    Codex, Claude Code, and other Agent Skills-compatible clients.

    From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Go CLI Testing loads about 999 tokens when it runs, and up to ~10k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 108 tokens; SKILL.md has 391 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~108
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~999
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~10k

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

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

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); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins at commit 16b4156, republished under its MIT licence (© hashgraph-online). 391 words, ~999 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/go-cli-testing/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 9 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
go-cli-testing
description
Design, implement, stabilize, and review Go CLI tests across fresh command trees, pure logic, table-driven cases, streams, typed configuration, files, environment, function-backed HTTP fakes, repositories, subprocesses, capability profiles, race checks, and artifact behavior. Use when adding command tests, diagnosing flaky Go tests, choosing test boundaries, or verifying human-, agent-, and CI-facing CLI contracts.
compatibility
Codex, Claude Code, and other Agent Skills-compatible clients.
license
MIT
metadata.version
0.4.0
metadata.displayName
Go CLI Testing
metadata.category
Go
metadata.tags
go,golang,cli,testing,table-tests,integration-tests,subprocess

Go CLI Testing

Test observable behavior at the narrowest boundary that proves it. Isolate every mutable resource and reserve executable tests for process-level semantics.

Core Workflow

  1. Inventory success, invalid, boundary, dependency-failure, and cancellation behavior.
  2. Map each case to a pure, command, adapter, integration, or binary test.
  3. Inject arguments, streams, configuration, clocks, and effectful dependencies.
  4. Isolate files, environment, servers, repositories, ports, and subprocesses.
  5. Assert stdout, stderr, exit behavior, and errors according to the public contract.
  6. Gate live or platform-specific tests and make their changes reversible.
  7. Run standard, race, tagged, and relevant platform checks.
  8. Execute every supported build profile and smoke-test final artifacts.
  9. Interpret coverage gaps without treating execution as behavioral proof.
TaskLoad
Build or overhaul a CLI test suiteguidelines.md, workflows/test-cli-command.md
Stabilize a flaky asynchronous testworkflows/stabilize-flaky-test.md
Write focused command testsreferences/cli-testing/rules.md, references/cli-testing/examples.md
Add subprocess, HTTP, repository, or integration testsreferences/cli-testing/patterns.md
Review coverage, isolation, or flakinessreferences/cli-testing/checklist.md
Choose the right test boundaryreferences/cli-testing/knowledge.md
Benchmark or profile performanceUse go-performance-testing

Guardrails

  • Do not mutate developer data or depend on fixed temporary paths and ports.
  • Do not run parallel tests that replace process-global state.
  • Replace timing sleeps with synchronization, deadlines, or fake clocks.
  • Use testing/synctest only when the minimum Go version supports it and the behavior fits an isolated bubble.
  • Inspect wrapped errors structurally unless exact diagnostics are contractual.
  • Prefer one valuable executable flow over many slow end-to-end tests.
  • Construct a fresh command tree and typed configuration for every test.
  • Assert both Execute errors and stream output.
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Source Notes

Guidance is transformed and paraphrased from testing material throughout Ricardo Gerardi, Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go (Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2021), especially Chapters 1-7 and 11. Examples are original.

Book: https://pragprog.com/titles/rggo/powerful-command-line-applications-in-go/

Modern test APIs should be verified against https://pkg.go.dev/testing and the current Go documentation before implementation.

Fresh command-tree, HTTP fake, configuration, and build-profile guidance also incorporates transformed material from Marian Montagnino, Building Modern CLI Applications in Go (Packt, 2023), especially Chapters 4, 6, and 11.

Subtest, coverage, parser, concurrency, HTTP server, and SQL adapter guidance also incorporates transformed material from Inanc Gumus, Go by Example: Programmer's Guide to Idiomatic and Testable Programs (Manning, 2025), Chapters 2-10.

Test categorization, race/shuffle execution, deterministic time, iotest, and benchmark-correctness guidance also incorporates transformed material from Teiva Harsanyi, 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them (Manning, 2022), Chapter 11.

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Files

SKILL.md and 9 other files (references) in plugins/LVTD-LLC/skills/skills/go-cli-testing of hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml
  • guidelines.md
  • references/cli-testing/checklist.md
  • references/cli-testing/examples.md
  • references/cli-testing/knowledge.md
  • references/cli-testing/patterns.md
  • references/cli-testing/rules.md
  • workflows/stabilize-flaky-test.md
  • workflows/test-cli-command.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 16b4156

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Questions about Go CLI Testing

What does Go CLI Testing do?

Design, implement, stabilize, and review Go CLI tests across fresh command trees, pure logic, table-driven cases, streams, typed configuration, files, environment, function-backed HTTP fakes…. Go CLI Testing is an agent skill from hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins. Design, implement, stabilize, and review Go CLI tests across fresh command trees, pure logic, table-driven cases, streams, typed configuration, files, environment, function-backed HTTP fakes, repositories, subprocesses, capability profiles, race checks, and artifact behavior.

When should I use Go CLI Testing?

Go CLI Testing fits situations like: adding command tests; diagnosing flaky Go tests; choosing test boundaries; verifying human-.

How do I install Go CLI Testing in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins --skill go-cli-testing -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/LVTD-LLC/skills/skills/go-cli-testing in hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins) into .claude/skills/go-cli-testing in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Go CLI Testing in Codex?

Run `npx skills add hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins --skill go-cli-testing -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/LVTD-LLC/skills/skills/go-cli-testing in hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins) into .agents/skills/go-cli-testing in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Go CLI Testing in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins --skill go-cli-testing -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/go-cli-testing, .gemini/skills/go-cli-testing, .github/skills/go-cli-testing and .opencode/skills/go-cli-testing in your project.

What does Go CLI Testing need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Go CLI Testing is instructions for the agent only. Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Codex, Claude Code, and other Agent Skills-compatible clients..

Does Go CLI Testing access the network?

SKILL.md names 2 domains. As links in the text: pragprog.com and pkg.go.dev. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Go CLI Testing safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Go CLI Testing use?

Go CLI Testing is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Go CLI Testing use?

About 999 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 9.3k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Go CLI Testing?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Go CLI Testing: Web Application Testing (anthropics/skills, 180k stars), Diagnosing Bugs (fossasia/eventyay-interpretation, 1.6k stars), TDD (fossasia/eventyay-interpretation, 1.6k stars) and TDD Workflow (hellangleZ/burn-in-cceverywhere-ralph, 112 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Go CLI Testing?

hashgraph-online (a GitHub organization) maintains it in hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins, which has 1,232 GitHub stars. The repository holds 736 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.

Source: hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.