strategic-go
Claude Code plugin applying Ousterhout's A Philosophy of Software Design to Go.
Install
Add the marketplace, then install:
/plugin marketplace add cosgroveb/strategic-go
/plugin install strategic-go@strategic-go
Usage
Slash command — invoke manually when doing Go design work:
/strategic-go
Agent — the model spawns strategic-go-designer automatically when writing new Go modules, reviewing Go architecture, or making package boundary decisions.
Skill — the model invokes strategic-go-design when it detects Go design work (interface design, code review, complexity decisions).
What it encodes
Six sections from Ousterhout, grounded in his text and mapped to Go idioms:
- Role — strategic over tactical; 10-20% upfront investment
- Principles — deep modules, information hiding, define errors out of existence, somewhat general-purpose, unknown unknowns, comments
- Reasoning — five-step pre-coding checklist (complexity symptoms → information boundaries → deepest module → tactical/strategic check → unknown unknowns)
- Go application — small interfaces, /internal, zero-value usefulness, accept interfaces return structs, explicit errors, godoc
- Examples — shallow→deep, leakage→hidden, tactical→strategic in Go code
- Self-correction — five post-coding checks against interface growth, leakage, tactical drift, comment quality, zero-value safety
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