awesome-go

A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software
https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go

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Actor Model
- Ergo - An actor-based Framework with network transparency for creating event-driven architecture in Golang. Inspired by Erlang.
- Goakt - Fast and Distributed Actor framework using protocol buffers as message for Golang.
- Hollywood - Blazingly fast and light-weight Actor engine written in Golang.
- ProtoActor - Distributed actors for Go, C#, and Java/Kotlin.
- asyncmachine-go/pkg/machine - Graph control flow library (AOP, actor, state-machine).
Artificial Intelligence
- langchaingo - LangChainGo is a framework for developing applications powered by language models.
- LocalAI - Open Source OpenAI alternative, self-host AI models.
- fun - The simplest but powerful way to use large language models (LLMs) in Go.
- OllamaFarm - Manage, load-balance, and failover packs of Ollamas.
- chromem-go - Embeddable vector database for Go with Chroma-like interface and zero third-party dependencies. In-memory with optional persistence.
- Ollama - Run large language models locally.
- goai - Go SDK for building AI applications. One SDK, 20+ providers. Inspired by Vercel AI SDK.
- hotplex - AI Agent runtime engine with long-lived sessions for Claude Code, OpenCode, pi-mono and other CLI AI tools. Provides full-duplex streaming, multi-platform integrations, and secure sandbox.
- langgraphgo - A Go library for building stateful, multi-actor applications with LLMs, built on the concept of LangGraph，with a lot of builtin Agent architectures.
- AegisFlow - AI gateway for routing, securing, and monitoring LLM traffic across 10+ providers. OpenAI-compatible API, WASM policy plugins, canary rollouts, real-time dashboard.
- ai - A Go toolkit for building AI agents and applications across multiple providers with unified LLM, embeddings, tool calling, and MCP integration.
- localaik - LocalStack-style local emulation of OpenAI and Gemini APIs; single Docker container, llama.cpp + Gemma 3 backend.
- otellix - OpenTelemetry-native LLM observability and budget guardrails for cost-constrained production environments.
- routex - YAML-driven multi-agent AI runtime for Go with Erlang-style supervision, MCP tool server support, and a CLI.
- Aetheris - AI Agent execution runtime with event sourcing, checkpoint recovery, and At-Most-Once execution guarantee. Written in Go.
- agent-sdk-go - Framework for building stateful AI agents in Go.
- dakera-go - Official Go client SDK for the Dakera self-hosted agent memory server, providing typed interfaces for memory store/recall, session management, namespace operations, and decay configuration.
- mcp-go - Go implementation of the Model Context Protocol for building MCP servers and clients in Go.
- trpc-agent-go - Framework for building LLM-based multi-agent systems.
- web-researcher-mcp - MCP server providing AI assistants with web search, content extraction, and multi-source research capabilities. Single binary, 5 search providers with circuit-breaker failover, 4-tier scraping pipeline.
- zenflow - Multi-agent orchestration & workflow engine. Declarative YAML workflows, LLM coordinator with hub-and-spoke mailboxes, race-safe delivery. One YAML file, one Go binary. Runs on any goai-supported provider.
- skillreaper - CLI that scans AI agent session transcripts to identify and safely quarantine unused skills, MCP servers, and agents across Claude Code, Codex CLI, Hermes, OpenCode, Cursor, and OpenClaw.
- GoModel - AI gateway exposing a unified OpenAI-compatible API across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Groq, xAI, Ollama and other providers, with routing, usage tracking, rate limits, and guardrails.
- jargo - Framework for building real-time voice AI agents over WebRTC, wiring speech-to-text, LLMs, and text-to-speech into a streaming pipeline.
- llm-box - Terminal-based AI workflow engine with YAML-driven pipelines, 20+ LLM providers (DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM, Mistral, etc.), and a TUI for workflow management.
- semantic-search - Meaning-based search over PDF, Markdown, DOCX, source code, and other file types, using generative AI embedding models to vectorize files into a vector database.
- Smeldr - AI-native content backend with typed lifecycle management, native MCP tools for every content type, and zero runtime dependencies.
- agy-mcp - Model Context Protocol (MCP) server wrapping the Antigravity CLI to run prompts and peer reviews.
- crewai-go - Idiomatic Go port of CrewAI (multi-agent orchestration). Zero dependencies, stdlib only.
- keen-code - A context-efficient terminal-based AI coding agent. Provider agnostic, supports MCPs, Agent Skills, Subagents, and more. Comes with a simple and straightforward TUI.
- ai-gateway - OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway that routes requests across 30 providers with fallback, rate limiting, budgets, guardrails, and observability.
- snip - CLI proxy that reduces LLM token usage by 60-90% with declarative YAML filters. Drop-in for Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and Gemini. rtk alternative in Go.
- claude-code-go - Go library for driving the Claude Code CLI non-interactive prompt surface from Go programs.
- Cynative - Framework for building security engineering AI agents in Go. Read-only by construction, built-in sandbox, 45 agent blueprints for AWS, GCP, Azure, K8s, GitHub & GitLab deep research.
- Genkit - Framework created by Google for building AI-powered and agentic applications in idiomatic Go.
- golem - Framework for building dependable AI agents with typed dependencies, zero external dependencies, and native MCP support.
- thermal - Terminal contribution heatmap, streak tracker, and token leaderboard for AI coding assistants.
Audio and Music
- flac - Native Go FLAC encoder/decoder with support for FLAC streams.
- gaad - Native Go AAC bitstream parser.
- GoAudio - Native Go Audio Processing Library.
- gosamplerate - libsamplerate bindings for go.
- malgo - Mini audio library.
- minimp3 - Lightweight MP3 decoder library.
- PortAudio - Go bindings for the PortAudio audio I/O library.
- id3v2 - ID3 decoding and encoding library for Go.
- go-mpris - Client for mpris dbus interfaces.
- beep - A simple library for playback and audio manipulation.
- Oto - A low-level library to play sound on multiple platforms.
- music-theory - Music theory models in Go.
- voxrai-ai - AI voice agents with a JSON configuration, STT → LLM → TTS pipelines over WebSocket and WebRTC.
- go-resample - Pure-Go (no cgo) audio sample-rate converter with sinc, linear, and zero-order-hold converters.
- go-aac - Pure-Go AAC-LC encoder and decoder ported from FFmpeg.
- go-audio-resampler - Pure-Go, high-quality audio resampler with SIMD acceleration.
- go-flac - Native Go FLAC encoder and decoder with SIMD acceleration.
- go-opus - Native Go implementation of the Opus audio codec (RFC 6716) with RFC-compliant decoder.
- go-wav - Pure-Go WAV/RIFF reader and writer with RF64 and BW64 support for files larger than 4 GiB.
- gocue - Audio analysis CLI that detects cue-in, cue-out, and overlay points and measures EBU R128 loudness, emitting JSON for Liquidsoap.
Authentication and Authorization
- authboss - Modular authentication system for the web. It tries to remove as much boilerplate and "hard things" as possible so that each time you start a new web project in Go, you can plug it in, configure it, and start building your app without having to build an authentication system each time.
- branca - branca token [specification implementation](https://github.com/tuupola/branca-spec) for Golang 1.15+.
- cookiestxt - provides a parser of cookies.txt file format.
- go-guardian - Go-Guardian is a golang library that provides a simple, clean, and idiomatic way to create powerful modern API and web authentication that supports LDAP, Basic, Bearer token, and Certificate based authentication.
- go-jose - Fairly complete implementation of the JOSE working group's JSON Web Token, JSON Web Signatures, and JSON Web Encryption specs.
- gologin - chainable handlers for login with OAuth1 and OAuth2 authentication providers.
- gorbac - provides a lightweight role-based access control (RBAC) implementation in Golang.
- gosession - This is quick session for net/http in GoLang. This package is perhaps the best implementation of the session mechanism, or at least it tries to become one.
- goth - provides a simple, clean, and idiomatic way to use OAuth and OAuth2. Handles multiple providers out of the box.
- jeff - Simple, flexible, secure, and idiomatic web session management with pluggable backends.
- jwt - Lightweight JSON Web Token (JWT) library.
- jwt - Safe, simple, and fast JSON Web Tokens for Go.
- jwt-auth - JWT middleware for Golang http servers with many configuration options.
- jwt-go - A full featured implementation of JSON Web Tokens (JWT). This library supports the parsing and verification as well as the generation and signing of JWTs.
- jwx - Go module implementing various JWx (JWA/JWE/JWK/JWS/JWT, otherwise known as JOSE) technologies.
- keto - Open Source (Go) implementation of "Zanzibar: Google's Consistent, Global Authorization System". Ships gRPC, REST APIs, newSQL, and an easy and granular permission language. Supports ACL, RBAC, and other access models.
- oauth2 - Successor of goauth2. Generic OAuth 2.0 package that comes with JWT, Google APIs, Compute Engine, and App Engine support.
- oidc - Easy to use OpenID Connect client and server library written for Go and certified by the OpenID Foundation.
- openfga - Implementation of fine-grained authorization based on the "Zanzibar: Google's Consistent, Global Authorization System" paper. Backed by [CNCF](https://www.cncf.io/).
- osin - Golang OAuth2 server library.
- otpgo - Time-Based One-Time Password (TOTP) and HMAC-Based One-Time Password (HOTP) library for Go.
- paseto - Golang implementation of Platform-Agnostic Security Tokens (PASETO).
- scs - Session Manager for HTTP servers.
- securecookie - Efficient secure cookie encoding/decoding.
- session - Go session management for web servers (including support for Google App Engine - GAE).
- sessions - Dead simple, highly performant, highly customizable sessions service for go http servers.
- sjwt - Simple jwt generator and parser.
- goiabada - An open-source authentication and authorization server supporting OAuth2 and OpenID Connect.
- permissions - Library for keeping track of users, login states, and permissions. Uses secure cookies and bcrypt.
- casbin - Authorization library that supports access control models like ACL, RBAC, and ABAC.
- loginsrv - JWT login microservice with pluggable backends such as OAuth2 (Github), htpasswd, osiam.
- scope - Easily Manage OAuth2 Scopes In Go.
- sessionup - Simple, yet effective HTTP session management and identification package.
- x509proxy - Library to handle X509 proxy certificates.
- spicedb - A Zanzibar-inspired database that enables fine-grained authorization.
- go-iam - Developer-first Identity and Access Management system with a simple UI.
- otpgen - Library to generate TOTP/HOTP codes.
- go-githubauth - Utilities for GitHub authentication: generate and use GitHub application and installation tokens.
- go-jwt - JWT authentication package providing access tokens and refresh tokens with fingerprinting, Redis storage, and automatic refresh capabilities.
- authgate - A lightweight OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server supporting Device Authorization Grant ([RFC 8628](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8628)), Authorization Code Flow with PKCE ([RFC 6749](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6749) + [RFC 7636](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7636)), and Client Credentials Grant for machine-to-machine authentication.
- go-jwt - A JWT (JSON Web Token) library for Go.
- melange - Compiles OpenFGA authorization schemas into PL/pgSQL functions that run fine-grained relationship-based access control checks inside PostgreSQL.
Benchmarks
- Other Software
  - autobench - Framework to compare the performance between different Go versions.
  - go-benchmark-app - Powerful HTTP-benchmark tool mixed with Аb, Wrk, Siege tools. Gathering statistics and various parameters for benchmarks and comparison results.
  - go-benchmarks - Few miscellaneous Go microbenchmarks. Compare some language features to alternative approaches.
  - go-http-routing-benchmark - Go HTTP request router benchmark and comparison.
  - go-json-benchmark - Go JSON benchmark.
  - go-ml-benchmarks - benchmarks for machine learning inference in Go.
  - go-web-framework-benchmark - Go web framework benchmark.
  - go_serialization_benchmarks - Benchmarks of Go serialization methods.
  - golang-benchmarks - a collection of golang benchmarks.
  - gospeed - Go micro-benchmarks for calculating the speed of language constructs.
  - kvbench - Key/Value database benchmark.
  - skynet - Skynet 1M threads microbenchmark.
  - speedtest-resize - Compare various Image resize algorithms for the Go language.
  - gocostmodel - Benchmarks of common basic operations for the Go language.
  - vizb - A CLI tool to visualize Go benchmark data in 4D.
Blockchain
- cometbft - A distributed, Byzantine fault-tolerant, deterministic state machine replication engine. It is a fork of Tendermint Core and implements the Tendermint consensus algorithm.
- cosmos-sdk - A Framework for Building Public Blockchains in the Cosmos Ecosystem.
- gno - A comprehensive smart contract suite built with Golang and Gnolang, a deterministic, purpose-built Go variant for blockchains.
- go-ethereum - Official Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol.
- gosemble - A Go-based framework for building Polkadot/Substrate-compatible runtimes.
- gossamer - A Go implementation of the Polkadot Host.
- kubo - An IPFS implementation in Go. It provides content-addressable storage which can be used for decentralized storage in DApps. It is based on the IPFS protocol.
- lnd - A complete implementation of a Lightning Network node.
- solana-go - Go library to interface with Solana JSON RPC and WebSocket interfaces.
- tendermint - High-performance middleware for transforming a state machine written in any programming language into a Byzantine Fault Tolerant replicated state machine using the Tendermint consensus and blockchain protocols.
- nview - Local monitoring tool for a Cardano Node. It's a TUI (terminal user interface) designed to fit most screens.
- tronlib - A comprehensive, production-ready Go SDK for interacting with the TRON blockchain with TRC20 token support.
- pactus - A full-node implementation of the Pactus blockchain in Go.
Bot Building
- bot - Zero-dependencies Telegram Bot library with additional UI components.
- echotron - An elegant and concurrent library for Telegram Bots in Go.
- go-sarah - Framework to build a bot for desired chat services including LINE, Slack, Gitter, and more.
- go-tg - Generated from official docs Go client library for accessing Telegram Bot API, with batteries for building complex bots included.
- go-twitch-irc - Library to write bots for twitch.tv chat
- micha - Go Library for Telegram bot api.
- slack-bot - Ready to use Slack Bot for lazy developers: Custom commands, Jenkins, Jira, Bitbucket, Github...
- slacker - Easy to use framework to create Slack bots.
- telebot - Telegram bot framework is written in Go.
- telego - Telegram Bot API library for Golang with full one-to-one API implementation.
- wayback - A bot for Telegram, Mastodon, Slack, and other messaging platforms archives webpages.
- arikawa - A library and framework for the Discord API.
- telegram-bot-api - Simple and clean Telegram bot client.
- TG - Telegram Bot Framework for Go.
- Wisp - Event-driven trading framework for Go. Spot, perpetual futures, prediction markets. Multi-exchange (Bybit, Hyperliquid, Polymarket).
- ymsdk - Go SDK for Yandex Messenger Bot API with type-safe models, automatic retry, and rate-limit handling.
- teleflow - Simple, type-safe Telegram bot framework with fluent flows and automatic state management.
- go-joe - A general-purpose bot library inspired by Hubot but written in Go.
Build Automation
- 1build - Command line tool to frictionlessly manage project-specific commands.
- anko - Simple application watcher for multiple programming languages.
- gob - [Gradle](https://docs.gradle.org/)/[Maven](https://maven.apache.org/) like build tool for Go projects.
- goyek - Create build pipelines in Go.
- mage - Mage is a make/rake-like build tool using Go.
- mmake - Modern Make.
- Task - simple "Make" alternative.
- taskctl - Concurrent task runner.
- xc - Task runner with README.md defined tasks, executable markdown.
- gaper - Builds and restarts a Go project when it crashes or some watched file changes.
- gilbert - Build system and task runner for Go projects.
- realize - Go build a system with file watchers and live to reload. Run, build and watch file changes with custom paths.
- air - Air - Live reload for Go apps.
- rex - Zero-config universal project runner. Detects your stack (Go, Node, Python, Rust, PHP, Zig, Elixir) and runs the right command.
Code Analysis
- Routers
  - staticcheck - staticcheck is `go vet` on steroids, applying a ton of static analysis checks you might be used to from tools like ReSharper for C#.
  - goimports - Tool to fix (add, remove) your Go imports automatically.
  - apicompat - Checks recent changes to a Go project for backwards incompatible changes.
  - asty - Converts golang AST to JSON and JSON to AST.
  - blanket - blanket is a tool that helps you catch functions which don't have direct unit tests in your Go packages.
  - ChainJacking - Find which of your Go lang direct GitHub dependencies is susceptible to ChainJacking attack.
  - Chronos - Detects race conditions statically
  - dupl - Tool for code clone detection.
  - errcheck - Errcheck is a program for checking for unchecked errors in Go programs.
  - fatcontext - Fatcontext detects nested contexts in loops or function literals.
  - go-checkstyle - checkstyle is a style check tool like java checkstyle. This tool inspired by java checkstyle, golint. The style referred to some points in Go Code Review Comments.
  - go-cleanarch - go-cleanarch was created to validate Clean Architecture rules, like a The Dependency Rule and interaction between packages in your Go projects.
  - go-critic - source code linter that brings checks that are currently not implemented in other linters.
  - go-mod-outdated - An easy way to find outdated dependencies of your Go projects.
  - goast-viewer - Web based Golang AST visualizer.
  - golang-ifood-sdk - iFood API SDK.
  - golangci-lint
  - golines - Formatter that automatically shortens long lines in Go code.
  - GoPlantUML - Library and CLI that generates text plantump class diagram containing information about structures and interfaces with the relationship among them.
  - goreturns - Adds zero-value return statements to match the func return types.
  - gostatus - Command line tool, shows the status of repositories that contain Go packages.
  - lint - Run linters as part of go test.
  - php-parser - A Parser for PHP written in Go.
  - revive - in replacement for `golint`.
  - testifylint
  - tickgit - CLI and go package for surfacing code comment TODOs (in any language) and applying a `git blame`to identify the author.
  - todocheck - Static code analyser which links TODO comments in code with issues in your issue tracker.
  - unconvert - Remove unnecessary type conversions from Go source.
  - usestdlibvars - A linter that detect the possibility to use variables/constants from the Go standard library.
  - vacuum - An ultra-super-fast, lightweight OpenAPI linter and quality checking tool.
  - validate - Automatically validates struct fields with tags.
  - wrapcheck - A linter to check that errors from external packages are wrapped.
  - stto - A light-weight superfast line of code counter written in pure Go.
  - gomarklint - Markdown linter with built-in HTTP link validation, single binary, no Node.js required.
  - structalign - Shows how a struct's fields could be reordered to use less memory, printing a diff instead of rewriting files.
  - ast-metrics - Static code analyzer for Go and other languages: complexity, coupling, cohesion and maintainability metrics, with HTML, JSON, Markdown and SARIF reports.

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