πŸ€– gin Γ— agent-product

Ship agent product on Gin with sensible defaults.

Gin is a Go workable choice for agent product. GreatCTO auto-detects both β€” adds the agent-product archetype overlay, wires agent-product-specific gates, and runs 83 specialist agents around your existing Gin workflow.

What changes when GreatCTO joins your Gin project

Detection β†’ overlay β†’ gates β†’ reviewers.

1 Β· DETECT

Stack + archetype

GreatCTO reads your go.mod and detects gin + agent-product archetype from signals: imports, file structure, env vars, README hints.

2 Β· OVERLAY

Archetype pack

Attaches the agent-product archetype overlay: OWASP LLM Top-10 evals, prompt-injection review, EU AI Act high-risk classification. Override if your specifics differ; the defaults are sensible for Gin-style projects.

3 Β· GATES

Gin-aware reviewers

qa-engineer runs go vet / staticcheck / go test -race -cover; security-officer reviews context cancellation + goroutine leaks; performance-engineer profiles pprof CPU + heap.

4 Β· MEMORY

Cross-project lessons

Bugs you've hit before in other Gin projects (connection-pool exhaustion, ORM N+1 queries, retry storms) β€” the agent's Step 0 includes the prior detection order. MTTR drops 94 % on second occurrence (methodology).

First 10 minutes

Concrete walkthrough.

$ cd my-gin-app && npx great-cto init
βœ“ scanning manifests… found manifest
βœ“ stack: gin (Go)
βœ“ archetype: agent-product
⚠ archetype + stack combo is unusual β€” review overlay manually
βœ“ 83 agents ready

$ /start "add tool-calling endpoint for the agent loop"
β–Έ architect drafting ARCH-agent-product.md…
β–Έ pm decomposing into beads tasks…
⚐ gate:plan β€” your approval needed

Approve β†’ 3 senior-devs run in parallel worktrees β†’ 5 reviewers fan out in parallel β†’ gate:ship β†’ deploy. One real run walked stage-by-stage: /proof.

What ships

The first feature, Gin-idiomatic.

This is the shape of what senior-dev drafts for "tool-calling endpoint for the agent loop" β€” auth first, schema validation, and the audit line the agent-product reviewer requires before gate:ship opens.

// internal/handlers/agent_product.go β€” drafted by senior-dev, reviewed by 5 agents
func CreateAgentProduct(c *gin.Context) {
	user := middleware.RequireUser(c)          // security-officer: auth before handler
	var req AgentProductRequest
	if err := c.ShouldBindJSON(&req); err != nil { // qa-engineer: binding validation
		c.JSON(400, gin.H{"error": err.Error()}); return
	}
	result, err := service.Handle(c, req, user)
	audit.Log(c, user.ID, "tool-calling endpoint for the agent loop", result.Confidence) // gate:agent-product: every decision logged
	c.JSON(200, result)
}
Where this combo lands

What teams build with Gin + the agent-product overlay.

1

Customer-support agents with tool-calling and human escalation.

2

Research / browsing agents with cost-runaway protection.

3

Workflow copilots embedded in existing SaaS products.

⚠ Honest caveat

Gin (Go) is not a typical fit for agent product. The archetype overlay still attaches, but you may want to override defaults more aggressively. Check the agent-product archetype page for the typical stack list and decide if your case is the right tool / right archetype.

Architecture

Every step of the pipeline, transparent.

No black-box "AI does it all" loop. GreatCTO is a deterministic state machine β€” 8 stages, 22 nodes, 2 human gates. Every node maps to a real agent on GitHub. Inspect the state machine β†’

Install

Gin + GreatCTO in one command.

$ npx great-cto init

Free, MIT, runs locally. Built as a Claude Code plugin β€” install with one command.

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