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go-cli-distribution

Prepare reproducible Go CLI artifacts across operating systems and architectures with toolchain-derived target matrices, capability profiles, portable config and cache discovery, CGO decisions, version metadata, artifact handoff, smoke tests, archives, checksums, containers, and versioned source installation.

Installation

$ npx skills add lvtd-llc/skills --skill go-cli-distribution
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Summary

  • Prepare reproducible Go CLI artifacts across operating systems and architectures with toolchain-derived target matrices, capability profiles, portable config and cache discovery, CGO decisions, version metadata, artifact handoff, smoke tests, archives, checksums, containers, and versioned source installation.
  • Use when cross-compiling, packaging binaries, defining the distribution contract, or reviewing portability before release automation.

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Skill metadata

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Version0.4.0
LicenseMIT
CompatibilityCodex, Claude Code, and other Agent Skills-compatible clients.
Declared agents claude-code codex
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version
0.4.0
displayName
Go CLI Distribution
category
Go
tags
go,golang,cli,distribution,cross-compilation,release,cgo

Package contents

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  • skill md SKILL.md 3,703 B
  • docs SUMMARY.md 471 B

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  1. First recorded snapshot · 1 installs

SKILL.md

Go CLI Distribution

Treat compilation as the start of release verification, not the finish. Declare the matrix, record every build input, and execute the final artifacts.

Core Workflow

  1. Derive supported GOOS/GOARCH targets from the pinned toolchain and dependencies.
  2. Verify platform files and modern //go:build capability constraints.
  3. Pin toolchain, modules, tags, CGO mode, linker flags, and source revision.
  4. Build deterministic target-specific artifacts with deliberate version metadata.
  5. Execute each artifact and test help, version, commands, streams, status, and signals.
  6. Package immutable archives, then generate and verify integrity metadata.
  7. Verify container and versioned go install paths when those are supported.

Read Next

Task Load
Prepare a complete multi-platform release guidelines.md, workflows/prepare-cross-platform-release.md
Apply build, verification, container, and install rules references/distribution/rules.md
Implement constraints or build commands references/distribution/examples.md
Use cross-build, CGO, metadata, or container patterns references/distribution/patterns.md
Review release readiness references/distribution/checklist.md
Understand portability and artifact tradeoffs references/distribution/knowledge.md

Guardrails

  • Use //go:build; do not introduce legacy-only // +build constraints.
  • Do not assume CGO_ENABLED=0 proves a self-contained artifact.
  • Cross-compilation alone does not establish runtime support.
  • Generate checksums only after final packaging and verify them after upload.
  • Use platform config and cache directory APIs; do not assume Unix home layouts.
  • Treat build tags as capability selection, never authentication or authorization.
  • Define and snapshot-test the artifact contract before release. The protected

tagged release job builds final bytes once; downstream channels must not rebuild them.

  • Recommend go install module/cmd/tool@version, not go get, for executable installation.

Source Notes

Guidance is transformed and paraphrased from Ricardo Gerardi, Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go (Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2021), especially Chapter 11. Examples are original adaptations.

Book: https://pragprog.com/titles/rggo/powerful-command-line-applications-in-go/

The source's Go 1.15-era build and install details are historical. Verify current behavior against https://go.dev/doc/go-get-install-deprecation and the current Go build documentation.

Portable directory, profile-matrix, and artifact-handoff guidance also incorporates transformed material from Marian Montagnino, Building Modern CLI Applications in Go (Packt, 2023), especially Chapters 7 and 12-14.

Embedded-schema and SQL-driver packaging guidance also incorporates transformed material from Inanc Gumus, Go by Example: Programmer's Guide to Idiomatic and Testable Programs (Manning, 2025), Chapter 10.