🌊 gin Γ— streaming

Ship streaming / event-driven on Gin without losing weeks to compliance.

Gin is a Go natural fit for streaming / event-driven. GreatCTO auto-detects both β€” adds the streaming archetype overlay, wires streaming-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 + streaming archetype from signals: imports, file structure, env vars, README hints.

2 Β· OVERLAY

Archetype pack

Attaches the streaming archetype overlay: archetype-specific reviewer + compliance gates. 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: streaming
βœ“ overlay: applied
βœ“ 83 agents ready

$ /start "add streaming feature"
β–Έ architect drafting ARCH-streaming.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 "streaming feature" β€” auth first, schema validation, and the audit line the streaming reviewer requires before gate:ship opens.

// internal/handlers/streaming.go β€” drafted by senior-dev, reviewed by 5 agents
func CreateStreaming(c *gin.Context) {
	user := middleware.RequireUser(c)          // security-officer: auth before handler
	var req StreamingRequest
	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, "streaming feature", result.Confidence) // gate:streaming: every decision logged
	c.JSON(200, result)
}
Where this combo lands

What teams build with Gin + the streaming overlay.

1

Event pipelines with exactly-once semantics.

2

CDC (Debezium) flows with schema-registry compat rules.

3

Real-time analytics with p99 latency budgets.

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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