Agent skill

Go Process CLI

by pproenca in pproenca/dot-skills

Write Go CLIs that manage processes and workloads — daemons, supervisors, job runners, deploy tools, anything that spawns or controls other processes.

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Install Go Process CLI

skills CLI
$ npx skills add pproenca/dot-skills --skill go-process-cli -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install pproenca/dot-skills go-process-cli --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/pproenca/dot-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.experimental/go-process-cli .claude/skills/go-process-cli && 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-process-cli
GitHub stars
214
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
483 words
Files
29 (incl. references, assets)
Skills in repo
182
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Write Go CLIs that manage processes and workloads — daemons, supervisors, job runners, deploy tools, anything that spawns or controls other processes.

  • Works in 3 steps: Identify which category your task falls… → Read the relevant rule files in… → Apply the pattern; follow the Reference…
  • Refactoring Go that handles OS signals
  • SKILL.md covers When to Apply, Categories, Quick Reference and How to Use, plus 2 more sections
  • Calls sh

What it does

Go Process CLI is an agent skill from pproenca/dot-skills. Write Go CLIs that manage processes and workloads — daemons, supervisors, job runners, deploy tools, anything that spawns or controls other processes. Use when writing, reviewing, or refactoring Go that handles OS signals, runs children via os/exec, fans out concurrent work, threads context for cancellation, returns exit codes, or builds a flag/cobra command surface. Covers the footguns the standard library makes easy to hit — SIGTERM vs Ctrl-C, SIGKILL-by-default children, orphaned process groups, pipe…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 31 other files, including reference files and assets (for example `AGENTS.md`, `assets/templates/_template.md` and `metadata.json`).

It sits in Development, covering Async programming and Refactoring. The repository describes itself as: A collection of AI agent skills following the Agent Skills open format. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Refactoring Go that handles OS signals
  • Runs children via os/exec
  • Fans out concurrent work
  • Threads context for cancellation

Example prompts

  • “/go-process-cli”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Identify which category your task falls under (see table above).
  2. Read the relevant rule files in references/ — each is a focused, self-contained pattern naming the wrong default it corrects.
  3. Apply the pattern; follow the Reference link in each rule for the authoritative source.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cf93c57. 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

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • sh

    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 Process CLI loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs, and up to ~12k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 191 tokens; SKILL.md has 483 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~191
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~12k

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 pproenca/dot-skills at commit cf93c57, republished under its MIT licence (© pproenca). 483 words, ~1,151 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/go-process-cli/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 28 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
go-process-cli
description
Write Go CLIs that manage processes and workloads — daemons, supervisors, job runners, deploy tools, anything that spawns or controls other processes. Use when writing, reviewing, or refactoring Go that handles OS signals, runs children via os/exec, fans out concurrent work, threads context for cancellation, returns exit codes, or builds a flag/cobra command surface. Covers the footguns the standard library makes easy to hit — SIGTERM vs Ctrl-C, SIGKILL-by-default children, orphaned process groups, pipe deadlocks, goroutine leaks, zombie reaping, and os.FindProcess lying about liveness. Triggers whenever the task touches process lifecycle, graceful shutdown, subprocess control, or concurrent workload supervision in Go — even if not named.

Go Process-Management CLIs

Make Go command-line tools that spawn, supervise, and shut down processes correctly — the part the stdlib makes easy to get subtly wrong.

When to Apply

Reach for this skill when building or reviewing a Go CLI whose job is to control other processes or concurrent workloads: a daemon, a process supervisor, a job/worker runner, a deploy or migration tool, a test harness that shells out, or any program that must stop cleanly when an orchestrator says so. It targets Go 1.22+ on Unix-like systems (Linux, macOS); a few rules note where Windows differs. It assumes you already know Go — it only corrects the specific defaults that go wrong in this domain.

Categories

#CategoryPrefixWhat it covers
1Signals & Graceful ShutdownsigBinding a context to SIGINT/SIGTERM; second-signal force-quit
2Child Processesexecos/exec lifetime, graceful kill, process groups, pipes, exit codes
3Concurrency & Workloadsworkerrgroup fan-out, bounded concurrency, goroutine-leak discipline, channel ownership
4Context PropagationctxExplicit context args, defer cancel(), cancellable waits
5Errors & Exit Codeserrrun() error for deferred cleanup, aggregating failures
6CLI Framework & Flagsclistdlib flag vs cobra, ExecuteContext, RunE, subcommand patterns
7Process State & SupervisionstateLiveness probes, atomic PID files, zombie reaping, structured logs

Quick Reference

The defaults this skill exists to correct:

  • signal.NotifyContext(ctx, SIGINT, SIGTERM) — not a channel that only watches Ctrl-C. Orchestrators send SIGTERM.
  • exec.CommandContext + cmd.Cancel/cmd.WaitDelay — plain CommandContext SIGKILLs children with no cleanup.
  • Setpgid + kill(-pgid) — signalling the direct child orphans grandchildren (sh -c, make, npm).
  • cmd.Output() for capture — reading a pipe after Wait() deadlocks.
  • errgroup.WithContext + SetLimit(n) — a goroutine per task means a process per task: PID/FD exhaustion.
  • ctx as an argument — never a struct field; defer cancel() on every derived context.
  • select { case <-ticker.C: case <-ctx.Done(): } — time.Sleep makes shutdown wait out the interval.
  • main → run() error → os.Exit(1) — log.Fatal/os.Exit deep in code skip every defer.
  • proc.Signal(syscall.Signal(0)) — os.FindProcess always succeeds on Unix; it never proves liveness.
  • os.OpenFile(O_CREATE|O_EXCL) for PID files — check-then-create is a race; cmd.Wait() every child or it zombifies.
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How to Use

  1. Identify which category your task falls under (see table above).
  2. Read the relevant rule files in references/ — each is a focused, self-contained pattern naming the wrong default it corrects.
  3. Apply the pattern; follow the Reference link in each rule for the authoritative source.

Rules cross-link (e.g. graceful shutdown ties signals → context → child-process kill → cleanup), so follow the links when a task spans categories.

When extending this skill, copy assets/templates/_template.md: WHY first, one canonical example with realistic names, a foil only if the wrong way is a genuine trap.

Source Authority

Every rule cites primary sources — the Go standard library reference on pkg.go.dev, the official Go blog (go.dev/blog), and the cobra documentation — chosen because they are maintainer-authored and version-current. No content farms, listicles, or undated tutorials.

  • radical-simplification — when a supervisor design has accreted accidental complexity.
  • unix-cli / cli-for-agents — broader CLI ergonomics beyond process management.

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Files

SKILL.md and 28 other files (references, assets) in skills/.experimental/go-process-cli of pproenca/dot-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • AGENTS.md
  • assets/templates/_template.md
  • metadata.json
  • references/_sections.md
  • references/cli-execute-context-wires-signals.md
  • references/cli-flag-vs-cobra-by-shape.md
  • references/cli-rune-return-errors.md
  • references/cli-stdlib-subcommand-pattern.md
  • references/ctx-cancellable-wait.md
  • references/ctx-defer-cancel.md
  • references/ctx-explicit-argument.md
  • references/err-join-aggregate-workloads.md
  • references/err-run-function-for-deferred-cleanup.md
  • references/exec-cancel-sigterm-before-kill.md
  • references/exec-commandcontext-binds-lifetime.md
  • references/exec-exit-code-from-exiterror.md
  • references/exec-kill-process-group.md
  • … and 11 more

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cf93c57

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Questions about Go Process CLI

What does Go Process CLI do?

Write Go CLIs that manage processes and workloads — daemons, supervisors, job runners, deploy tools, anything that spawns or controls other processes. Go Process CLI is an agent skill from pproenca/dot-skills. Write Go CLIs that manage processes and workloads — daemons, supervisors, job runners, deploy tools, anything that spawns or controls other processes.

When should I use Go Process CLI?

Go Process CLI fits situations like: refactoring Go that handles OS signals; runs children via os/exec; fans out concurrent work; threads context for cancellation.

How do I install Go Process CLI in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add pproenca/dot-skills --skill go-process-cli -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/.experimental/go-process-cli in pproenca/dot-skills) into .claude/skills/go-process-cli in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Go Process CLI in Codex?

Run `npx skills add pproenca/dot-skills --skill go-process-cli -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/.experimental/go-process-cli in pproenca/dot-skills) into .agents/skills/go-process-cli in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Go Process CLI 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 pproenca/dot-skills --skill go-process-cli -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-process-cli, .gemini/skills/go-process-cli, .github/skills/go-process-cli and .opencode/skills/go-process-cli in your project.

What does Go Process CLI need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Go Process CLI needs the command-line tools its instructions call (sh).

Does Go Process CLI access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Go Process CLI 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 Process CLI use?

Go Process CLI is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Go Process CLI use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.6k 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 11k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Go Process CLI?

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Who maintains Go Process CLI?

pproenca (a GitHub user) maintains it in pproenca/dot-skills, which has 214 GitHub stars. The repository holds 182 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 15, 2026.

Source: pproenca/dot-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.