Go

Go is the official command-line tool for working with Go codebases and the Go toolchain. It handles package builds, tests, runs, module and workspace maintenance, environment inspection, and access to bundled tools from one entrypoint.

• Build, run, test, benchmark, and install Go packages or commands across local packages, modules, and target platforms.
• Inspect package graphs, module metadata, workspace state, environment settings, and binary build info with commands like go list, go env, go mod, go work, and go version -m.
• Initialize or maintain go.mod and go.work, download or verify dependencies, generate code, and invoke bundled or module-defined tools.

• Core workflows are shell-friendly: commands are mostly non-interactive, work against explicit paths or package patterns, and return stable exit codes for CI or agent loops.
• Structured output is substantial rather than universal, with JSON on go env, go list, go mod download, go mod edit, go work edit, go version -m, go test, and build-style -json output.
• Automation still depends on local toolchain state, module graph, and sometimes network access, and many everyday commands remain text-first.

• README.md identifies golang/go as an official mirror; the canonical Git repository is go.googlesource.com/go.
• Official install docs point to platform-specific downloads and installers, so there is no single upstream shell install command to recommend.