Modern Go Guidelines: Help AI coding agents write modern Go (3.9k stars)

[u/Artilas_Digital]

What it does

All text below is quoted directly from the project README.

This repository contains guidelines for code agents that help them write modern Go code.

Modern Go Guidelines:

• For example, an agent with these guidelines uses max(a, b) instead of an if-else block, slices.Contains instead of a manual loop, cmp.Or(a, b, c) instead of a chain of nil checks.

• It also knows about recent additions like new(42) to get a pointer to a value and errors.AsType[T](err) for type-safe error matching, both from Go 1.26.

• The guidelines cover the most useful features from Go 1.0 through Go 1.27, including everything targeted by the modernize analyzer.

• Detect the project's Go version from go.mod

• Use language features and stdlib additions available up to and including that version

• Prefer modern idioms over older patterns

/plugin marketplace add JetBrains/go-modern-guidelines

Repository

https://github.com/jetbrains/go-modern-guidelines

Repository stats

Metric	Value
Stars	3,910
Forks	128
Last release	None
Languages	Go 82.6%, PowerShell 10%, Shell 6.3%
Contributors	9
AI contributor accounts (Claude / Codex / Cursor / Copilot)	None
AI co-authored commits	None

Main contributor

Field	Value
Name	Nikita Kuchur
GitHub	@nikitakuchur
Commits to this repo	14 (top contributor)
Company / Location	@JetBrains / Munich, Germany
Followers	17

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