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TL;DR

A Go concurrency skill package that gives AI coding agents expert guidance on sync primitives, deadlocks, and distributed patterns.

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    What it does
      Diagnoses deadlocks and races
      Reviews sync primitive usage
      Recommends concurrency patterns
    Tech stack
      Go
      AI agent skill
    Use cases
      Fix goroutine leaks
      Optimize lock granularity
      Design distributed locks with etcd
    Audience
      Go developers using AI agents

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Why would anyone build with this?

REASON 1

Diagnose deadlocks, data races, and goroutine leaks in a Go codebase with AI agent assistance.

REASON 2

Get recommendations on which sync primitive or concurrency pattern fits a specific scenario.

REASON 3

Design distributed locks, leader election, or queues built on etcd.

What's in the stack?

Go

How it stacks up

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Setup difficultyeasymoderatemoderate
Complexity3/54/53/5
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How do you spin it up?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

Installs with a single npx command or by pasting the repository URL into a Skills-compatible agent.

Use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

Wtf does this do

This is a Go concurrency skill package designed for AI coding agents that support a plugin system, such as Claude Code. It provides specialized guidance on concurrent programming in Go, drawing from a book on the subject. The README is written entirely in Chinese. The skill covers a wide range of concurrency topics: diagnosing deadlocks, data races, and goroutine leaks, optimizing lock granularity and suggesting lock-free alternatives, reviewing usage of Go's standard sync primitives, and recommending appropriate patterns for specific scenarios. It also covers version migration across Go 1.20 through 1.27 and distributed concurrency patterns built on top of etcd. Knowledge areas include the standard library's concurrency tools such as Mutex, RWMutex, WaitGroup, Cond, Once, Pool, sync.Map, atomic operations, channels, and context. Official extension packages covering semaphore, SingleFlight, ErrGroup, and rate limiting are included, as is a collection of third-party concurrency libraries. The skill also covers 13 or more named concurrency patterns, classic problems such as the dining philosophers problem with four different solutions, and distributed synchronization primitives built on etcd including leader election, distributed locks, queues, barriers, and software transactional memory. To install it, you run a single npx command pointing at the repository, or paste the installation URL into an agent that supports the Skills protocol. Once installed, the skill activates automatically when Go concurrency topics come up in conversation and can also be invoked manually with a slash command. Reference material is organized into separate files covering traps, patterns, version changes, deadlock diagnosis, memory model notes, extended primitives, third-party libraries, concurrency patterns, distributed primitives, and classic problems.

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Prompt 1
Explain the concurrency topics this skill package covers, from standard library primitives to distributed patterns.
Prompt 2
Walk me through installing this skill into Claude Code or another agent that supports the Skills protocol.
Prompt 3
How does this skill help diagnose a deadlock or goroutine leak in my Go code?
Prompt 4
What distributed synchronization primitives built on etcd does this skill know about?

Frequently asked questions

wtf is chao-go-sync?

A Go concurrency skill package that gives AI coding agents expert guidance on sync primitives, deadlocks, and distributed patterns.

What license does chao-go-sync use?

Use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

How hard is chao-go-sync to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is chao-go-sync for?

Mainly developer.

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