go-error-handling

go-error-handling is a Coding standards & language idioms skill for AI agents, published by eduardo-sl in the go-agent-skills repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates go-error-handling D (62/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.

Go error handling patterns, wrapping, sentinel errors, custom error types, and the errors package. Grounded in Effective Go, Go Code Review Comments, and production-proven idioms. Use when implementing error handling, designing error types, debugging error chains, or reviewing error handling patterns. Trigger examples: "handle errors", "error wrapping", "custom error type", "sentinel errors", "errors.Is", "errors.As". Do NOT use for panic/recover patterns in middleware (use go-api-design) or test assertion errors (use go-test-quality).

Grade
D
Quality
62 / 100
Safety
Passed
GitHub stars
63

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Our review

Architecture
84 / 100
Maturity
Basic: a single SKILL.md
Security scan
Low-risk patterns
License
MIT
Adoption
Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 1 collections

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