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A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries, and software. Inspired by awesome-python.

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Contents

Actor Model

_Libraries for building actor-based programs._

• asyncmachine-go/pkg/machine - Graph control flow library (AOP, actor, state-machine).
• 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.

Artificial Intelligence

_Libraries for building programs that leverage AI._

• AegisFlow - AI gateway for routing, securing, and monitoring LLM traffic across 10+ providers. OpenAI-compatible API, WASM policy plugins, canary rollouts, real-time dashboard.
• 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.
• agy-mcp - Model Context Protocol (MCP) server wrapping the Antigravity CLI to run prompts and peer reviews.
• ai - A Go toolkit for building AI agents and applications across multiple providers with unified LLM, embeddings, tool calling, and MCP integration.
• ai-gateway - OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway that routes requests across 30 providers with fallback, rate limiting, budgets, guardrails, and observability.
• chromem-go - Embeddable vector database for Go with Chroma-like interface and zero third-party dependencies. In-memory with optional persistence.
• claude-code-go - Go library for driving the Claude Code CLI non-interactive prompt surface from Go programs.
• crewai-go - Idiomatic Go port of CrewAI (multi-agent orchestration). Zero dependencies, stdlib only.
• 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.
• 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.
• fun - The simplest but powerful way to use large language models (LLMs) in Go.
• goai - Go SDK for building AI applications. One SDK, 20+ providers. Inspired by Vercel AI SDK.
• 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.
• 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.
• jargo - Framework for building real-time voice AI agents over WebRTC, wiring speech-to-text, LLMs, and text-to-speech into a streaming pipeline.
• 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.
• langchaingo - LangChainGo is a framework for developing applications powered by language models.
• 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.
• 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.
• LocalAI - Open Source OpenAI alternative, self-host AI models.
• localaik - LocalStack-style local emulation of OpenAI and Gemini APIs; single Docker container, llama.cpp + Gemma 3 backend.
• mcp-go - Go implementation of the Model Context Protocol for building MCP servers and clients in Go.
• Ollama - Run large language models locally.
• OllamaFarm - Manage, load-balance, and failover packs of Ollamas.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Smeldr - AI-native content backend with typed lifecycle management, native MCP tools for every content type, and zero runtime dependencies.
• 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.
• thermal - Terminal contribution heatmap, streak tracker, and token leaderboard for AI coding assistants.
• 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.

Audio and Music

_Libraries for manipulating audio and music._

• beep - A simple library for playback and audio manipulation.
• flac - Native Go FLAC encoder/decoder with support for FLAC streams.
• gaad - Native Go AAC bitstream parser.
• 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-mpris - Client for mpris dbus interfaces.
• go-opus - Native Go implementation of the Opus audio codec (RFC 6716) with RFC-compliant decoder.
• go-resample - Pure-Go (no cgo) audio sample-rate converter with sinc, linear, and zero-order-hold converters.
• go-wav - Pure-Go WAV/RIFF reader and writer with RF64 and BW64 support for files larger than 4 GiB.
• GoAudio - Native Go Audio Processing Library.
• gocue - Audio analysis CLI that detects cue-in, cue-out, and overlay points and measures EBU R128 loudness, emitting JSON for Liquidsoap.
• gosamplerate - libsamplerate bindings for go.
• id3v2 - ID3 decoding and encoding library for Go.
• malgo - Mini audio library.
• minimp3 - Lightweight MP3 decoder library.
• music-theory - Music theory models in Go.
• Oto - A low-level library to play sound on multiple platforms.
• PortAudio - Go bindings for the PortAudio audio I/O library.
• voxrai-ai - AI voice agents with a JSON configuration, STT → LLM → TTS pipelines over WebSocket and WebRTC.

Authentication and Authorization

_Libraries for implementing 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.
• authgate - A lightweight OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server supporting Device Authorization Grant (RFC 8628), Authorization Code Flow with PKCE (RFC 6749 + RFC 7636), and Client Credentials Grant for machine-to-machine authentication.
• branca - branca token specification implementation for Golang 1.15+.
• casbin - Authorization library that supports access control models like ACL, RBAC, and ABAC.
• cookiestxt - provides a parser of cookies.txt file format.
• go-githubauth - Utilities for GitHub authentication: generate and use GitHub application and installation tokens.
• 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-iam - Developer-first Identity and Access Management system with a simple UI.
• go-jose - Fairly complete implementation of the JOSE working group's JSON Web Token, JSON Web Signatures, and JSON Web Encryption specs.
• go-jwt - A JWT (JSON Web Token) library for Go.
• go-jwt - JWT authentication package providing access tokens and refresh tokens with fingerprinting, Redis storage, and automatic refresh capabilities.
• goiabada - An open-source authentication and authorization server supporting OAuth2 and OpenID Connect.
• 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.
• loginsrv - JWT login microservice with pluggable backends such as OAuth2 (Github), htpasswd, osiam.
• melange - Compiles OpenFGA authorization schemas into PL/pgSQL functions that run fine-grained relationship-based access control checks inside PostgreSQL.
• 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.
• osin - Golang OAuth2 server library.
• otpgen - Library to generate TOTP/HOTP codes.
• 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).
• permissions - Library for keeping track of users, login states, and permissi