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Go HTTP Client Resilience — measured AI agent skill | DecimalAI

hashgraph-online/go-http-client-resilience

SkillScore86Maintained

Design, implement, test, and review resilient Go HTTP client boundaries with context propagation, layered timeouts, transport reuse, request construction, authentication, status classification, bounded bodies, retry safety, backoff, rate limits, pagination, observability, and deterministic fakes. Use when a Go CLI or service calls remote APIs or when HTTP behavior is slow, flaky, unsafe, or hard to test.

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Coding pack

1 · One-time — install the CLI (docs ↗)

pip install decimalai

2 · Get the skill — writes .claude/skills/hashgraph-online-go-http-client-resilience/SKILL.md

decimalai skills pull hashgraph-online-go-http-client-resilience --out .claude/skills/

No CLI? Get the same file — curl · raw file

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/hashgraph-online-go-http-client-resilience/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/hashgraph-online-go-http-client-resilience/SKILL.md

Raw file: /s/hashgraph-online-go-http-client-resilience/SKILL.md ↗ · machine-readable summary at /s/hashgraph-online-go-http-client-resilience.json ↗

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Does this skill help? · Benchmark: with vs. withoutsign in to run this on your agents

22 test cases from the publisher’s eval.yaml · each run twice on gemini-3.6-flash — with the skill injected, then without · last run 4h ago

Yes — +9% lift+1% tokens0% turns86% of whole cases pass with skill (19/22)

Test case	Without → With	Effect	Δ tokens	Δ turns
case-02	✗→✓	▲ Improved	-14%	0%
case-18	✗→✓	▲ Improved	-11%	0%
case-21	✗→✓	▲ Improved	20%	0%
case-20	✓→✗	▼ Worse	7%	0%
case-03	✓→✓	＝ Same ✓	33%	0%

Showing 5 of 22 cases

SkillSafety

✓ 3 of 3 passed

Code scan15 of 15 checks clean

0 critical · 0 warning · 0 info — scanner v4 — 8/3/2026

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IntentSafe

LLM judge · does the skill do what it claims

ContentClean

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Source

Imported

hashgraph-online / awesome-codex-plugins

plugins/LVTD-LLC/skills/skills/go-http-client-resilience/SKILL.md

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License MITImported 8/3/2026Version v1

Skill contents

SKILL.md

Go HTTP Client Resilience

Treat HTTP as a failure-prone boundary with a finite time and resource budget. Retry only when both the failure and the operation are safe.

Core Workflow

Define operation semantics, total deadline, idempotency, and response limits.
Reuse a configured client and transport; propagate context into every request.
Construct URLs, headers, authentication, and bodies without secret leakage.
Classify transport, timeout, status, protocol, and decode failures.
Add bounded retries with jitter only for safe transient cases.
Drain or close bodies correctly and bound all reads.
Test with a function-backed transport and focused integration server.

Guardrails

Never use an unbounded body read or an unbounded retry loop.
Do not retry unsafe operations without an idempotency mechanism.
Do not create a new transport per request.
Do not log authorization headers, cookies, tokens, or unreviewed bodies.
Close every non-nil response body, including non-2xx responses.

Source Notes

Guidance is transformed and paraphrased from Marian Montagnino, Building Modern CLI Applications in Go (Packt, 2023), especially Chapter 6, and Ricardo Gerardi, Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go (2021).

Streaming, transport-pool, and HTTP test guidance also incorporates transformed material from Inanc Gumus, Go by Example: Programmer's Guide to Idiomatic and Testable Programs (Manning, 2025), Chapter 7.

Body ownership and client-timeout guidance also incorporates transformed material from Teiva Harsanyi, 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them (Manning, 2022), Chapter 10.

Verify behavior against https://pkg.go.dev/net/http and current API-specific rate-limit, pagination, and idempotency documentation.

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