Dependency Injection in Go Agent Skill

Comprehensive guide for dependency injection (DI) in Golang.

Context cost
8.8k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
6 files · 35.1 kBtext throughout, nothing executable
Licence
MITthe author’s own terms
Last change
—v1.3.1
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Comprehensive guide for dependency injection (DI) in Golang. Covers why DI matters (testability, loose coupling, separation of concerns, lifecycle management), manual constructor injection, and DI library comparison (google/wire, uber-go/dig, uber-go/fx, samber/do). Use this skill when designing service architecture, setting up dependency injection, refactoring tightly coupled code, managing singletons or service factories, or when the user asks about inversion of control, service containers, or wiring dependencies in Go.

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

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The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md13.0 kB · preview
--- name: golang-dependency-injection user-invocable: true license: MIT compatibility: Designed for Claude Code, Codex or similar harness, and for projects using Golang. metadata: author: samber version: "1.3.1" openclaw: emoji: "🔌" homepage: https://github.com/samber/cc-skills-golang requires: bins: - go install: [] allowed-tools: Read Edit Write Glob Grep Bash(go:*) Bash(golangci-lint:*) Bash(git:*) Agent WebFetch mcp__context7__resolve-library-id mcp__context7__query-docs AskUserQuestion paths: - "**/*.go" ---
22**Persona:** You are a Go software architect. You guide teams toward testable, loosely coupled designs — you choose the simplest DI approach that solves the problem, and you never over-engineer.
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24**Orchestration mode:** Fan out the three sub-agents described in Refactor mode (global/init discovery, concrete-dependency mapping, service-locator detection) when refactoring a large coupled codebase toward dependency injection, and consolidate into one migration plan. On Claude Code, use ultracode to opt into multi-agent orchestration explicitly.
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26**Modes:**
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28- **Design mode** (new project, new service, or adding a service to an existing DI setup): assess the existing dependency graph and lifecycle needs; recommend manual injection or a library from the decision table; then generate the wiring code.
29- **Refactor mode** (existing coupled code): use up to 3 parallel sub-agents — Agent 1 identifies global variables and init() service setup, Agent 2 maps concrete type dependencies that should become interfaces, Agent 3 locates service-locator anti-patterns (container passed as argument) — then consolidate findings and propose a migration plan.
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31> **Community default.** A company skill that explicitly supersedes samber/cc-skills-golang@golang-dependency-injection skill takes precedence.
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33# Dependency Injection in Go
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35Dependency injection (DI) means passing dependencies to a component rather than having it create or find them. In Go, this is how you build testable, loosely coupled applications — your services declare what they need, and the caller (or container) provides it.
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37This skill is not exhaustive. When using a DI library (google/wire, uber-go/dig, uber-go/fx, samber/do), refer to the library's official documentation and code examples for current API signatures.
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39For interface-based design foundations (accept interfaces, return structs), see the samber/cc-skills-golang@golang-structs-interfaces skill.
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This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md1,763 words
Files6
LicenceMIT
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈330
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
8,445
on trigger
The instruction body and 5 supporting files, read only when the skill fires.
4.4%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would take about 44% of the window before you open a file.
050k100k150k200k context window

8.8k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Heavy. Teams tend to install this one per project rather than globally, and load it only when the job comes up.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

It does ask the agent to write files and to fetch pages, using the file and network access your client already has.

What it asks for
Writes filesyes
Network accessyes

Read from the allowed-tools line of this skill’s own SKILL.md. It also asks for Bash, which could do either, so what is not named there is not ruled out. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

6 files, 35.1 kB on disk. A bundle is text throughout: the instructions the model reads, plus the templates it fills in.

  • SKILL.md13.0 kB
  • evals/evals.json12.0 kB
  • references/google-wire.md2.4 kB
  • references/manual-di.md2.2 kB
  • references/samber-do.md1.6 kB
  • references/uber-dig-fx.md3.9 kB
What is not in it

No dependencies and nothing executable: a skill is text the agent reads, so the bundle is 6 files you can review in full before installing. The MIT licence covers the templates and examples as well as the instructions.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Dependency Injection in Go · 8.8k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/dependency-injection-in-go/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/dependency-injection-in-go" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/dependency-injection-in-go ] || { mv .claude/skills/dependency-injection-in-go "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/dependency-injection-in-go" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/dependency-injection-in-go"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add samber/dependency-injection-in-go

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/dependency-injection-in-go/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/dependency-injection-in-go/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/dependency-injection-in-go" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/dependency-injection-in-go ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/dependency-injection-in-go "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/dependency-injection-in-go" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/dependency-injection-in-go" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/dependency-injection-in-go/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where. It appears as golang-dependency-injection in Gemini CLI, Codex, Copilot and Grok (its own name); Claude Code lists it by the folder name, dependency-injection-in-go.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills
ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills
HTTP / APIa request parameter
This release
Version1.3.1
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referencesamber/dependency-injection-in-go

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