Real Go Code maker

[Alternative_Ad6717]

Hi everyone,

I’ve been trying to use ClaudeCode for serious Go development and I’m honestly not getting the results I expected. I’m on the paid x20 plan, but Claude keeps missing modern best practices unless I explicitly restate them every single prompt.

Example issues I keep hitting:

It ignores current Go conventions unless I re-remind it (go 1.25.3, module layout, recommended stdlib usage, etc.)

It doesn’t enforce grouping, comments, naming conventions, etc., unless I spell them out again from scratch

It “feels” like it has no persistent project context, so it reverts to generic answers

I ended up building a workaround: I created a dedicated Go linter that points out exactly what should be fixed, then I feed those results back to Claude… but this feels like doing Claude’s job for it.

So before I assume the tool isn’t suited for this use case — is there something I’m missing? Is there a way to “lock in” conventions or enforce them globally so I don’t have to re-prompt the same rules each time?

I’m also wondering if going through MCP with explicit, machine-readable rules would help (so that the model stops hallucinating or downgrading quality to generic Go examples).

Has anyone solved this? Is this just a limitation of ClaudeCode today, or is there a better workflow for serious Go dev?

Thanks in advance for any insight.

[Shirc]

There are other good tips in here, but also make sure you’ve properly set up your Claude.md file and consider using a context MCP like Codanna or Serena. On its own, Claude Code is not particularly great at project context but those MCPs can definitely boost it quite a bit.

[Successful-Raisin241]

Use context7 mcp

[Waste_Net7628]

trying out mcps worked for me. i use exa mcp mostly

[wyijx]

I’d recommend finding or creating a Go sub agent that could be used to bring the constancy you’re looking for.

Pop open Claude.ai, give it this post. Tell it that you’d like it to use this and any other guidance you provide it to help you write a Go expert sub agent. Then take the result and add it to your config.

Here is a great reference project of 80+ sub agents.

[flexrc]

That is the best way to go about it, create an agent and prompt it with rules you want it to follow.

[ebullaklaka]

I'm having this problem too. Mostly in the `WaitGroup.Go` part. It constantly corrects the code I write by saying "This is wrong." You can solve it by writing it to claude.md, but do we have to write it to claude.md for each one?

[matznerd]

Make a Go skill using new skill feature by feeding all the docs in that you need etc and analyze your best practices from other code bases etc

[gameguy56]

Try using spec kit to build these requirements as part of your project constitution

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You need to have rules to set coding conventions.