Go Project Rules

Name: Go Project Rules
Rating: 4.5 (11200 reviews)
Author: cursor-community

Enforce Go idioms, error handling, and concurrency patterns

Beginner5 min

engineering/GoUpdated Nov 13, 2025

Software Engineer

terminal

curl -o .cursorrules https://skills.dev/rules/golang

This install command is a placeholder. The real source repo for this skill is still being verified.

by cursor-community

About this skill

Go-specific conventions for Cursor: proper error wrapping, small interfaces, goroutine safety patterns, table-driven tests, and module structure.

Capabilities

file editing

Use cases

Go development
Error handling
Concurrency patterns

How to install

Create the skill directory and file

terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/cursor-golang-rules

Create SKILL.md with the skill configuration

file path

~/.claude/skills/cursor-golang-rules/SKILL.md

Resulting file structure:

~/.claude/
  skills/
    cursor-golang-rules/
      SKILL.md    <-- skill definition

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