I built go-tool-base because I was sick of rebuilding the same CLI scaffolding every time I started a new Go tool. You’d think that would have taught me a lesson about doing things more than once. Apparently not, because …
go-tool-base can stash your credentials in the OS keychain, which most people building on it are perfectly happy about. But some of them ship into regulated and air-gapped environments where the binary isn’t permitted to …
Your CLI tool needs the user’s API key. It has to come from somewhere, and it has to survive between runs, so the obvious move is to ask once and write it into the config file. One tidy api_key: line. Job done. It works …
“Let users point at their own AI endpoint” is one of those config options that looks completely harmless on the way in. People want it, for perfectly good reasons. Then you sit with it for a minute and realise you’ve …
Dammit! How did that get there? A log line that should never have existed. Not a password I’d carelessly printed, nothing as obvious as that. An upstream API handed me back an error, and it had quoted my own bearer token …
When a real security audit lands back in your inbox, the temptation is to read it as a shopping list of unrelated mistakes. Fix one, fix the next, tick them off, move on. I did exactly that the first time. The second …
“Why is there a mutex around a boolean that only ever gets set once?” It’s a fair question, and I’d half-asked it of myself before someone asked it of me. The answer turns out to be written, in as many words, in a code …
I’m going to tell you about a bug go-tool-base shipped, because it’s one of those bugs that’s so reasonable-looking you’ll find it in textbooks, conference talks, and an awful lot of otherwise excellent Go code. We had …
“You can’t test code that calls an AI.” I’ve heard it said with great confidence, and it’s half right, which is the most dangerous kind of right. You genuinely can’t assert on what a non-deterministic model says. But the …
go-tool-base’s chat package puts five AI providers behind one interface. Four of them are exactly what you’d guess: HTTP calls to OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and anything OpenAI-compatible. The fifth one isn’t an API at all. …
