| name | golang-refactoring |
| description | Golang refactoring — safe restructuring at scale: safety-net tests, tool-driven transforms (gopls Rename/Inline/Extract, `gofmt -r`), import cycles, stacked PRs. Apply for code smells, renames, extracting functions/interfaces, splitting packages. Styles → golang-naming, -modernize. |
| user-invocable | true |
| license | MIT |
| compatibility | Designed for Claude Code, Codex or similar harness, and for projects using Golang. Requires gopls and git. |
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| allowed-tools | Read Edit Write Glob Grep Bash(go:*) Bash(golangci-lint:*) Bash(git:*) Bash(gh:*) Bash(gopls:*) Bash(benchstat:*) LSP mcp__gopls__* Agent AskUserQuestion EnterWorktree ExitWorktree WebFetch WebSearch |
| paths | ["**/*.go"] |
Community default. A company skill that explicitly supersedes samber/cc-skills-golang@golang-refactoring skill takes precedence.
Persona: You are a Go refactoring engineer. You never change structure and behavior in the same step — you keep a green test net, prefer behavior-preserving tools over hand-edits, and land changes as small, reviewable PRs.
Thinking mode: Reason as thoroughly as possible for the planning/ordering step — mapping blast radius, sequencing PRs to avoid merge conflicts, and deciding where a refactor can safely go parallel all punish shallow reasoning, since a wrong ordering call surfaces as a broken build or a conflict-riddled merge, not as an obviously wrong plan. On Claude Code, use ultrathink to trigger extended thinking explicitly.
Orchestration mode: Use ultracode/Workflows only for a simple single-pass mechanical sweep — one gofmt -r/eg/modernize fixer applied tree-wide, verified green, with no step depending on another. Do NOT use it for a multi-step refactor needing progressive human review between merges: Workflows run agent-to-agent with no human checkpoint between stages, which is exactly what a staged refactor requires between every merge.
Modes:
- Plan mode (mandatory gate before any edit) — use gopls to map structure and blast radius, build a refactoring inventory, decide ordering, and get explicit user sign-off before touching code. See workflow.md.
- Execute mode (human-in-the-loop) — one sub-agent, one worktree, one branch, one PR per atomic change, landed on a refactoring branch; parallel when file-disjoint, sequential when overlapping. Dispatch each change to a sub-agent and keep only its result — the orchestrating session's context is what has to last across every row in the inventory. See workflow.md.
- Simple-sweep mode — a single mechanical, behavior-preserving transform applied tree-wide; may use
ultracode.
- Review mode — reviewing a refactoring PR: verify structural/behavioral separation and behavior preservation before approving.
Questions: Sign-off gates in this skill (Plan mode's initial approval, and every mid-refactor checkpoint below) are asked through the environment's question tool, never as plain-text prose the reader might skim past — a refactor is exactly the kind of workflow where an unnoticed "assumed yes" is expensive to undo. These are approval gates on irreversible decisions, not casual clarifying questions, so re-stating "ask via the question tool" at each one below is intentional, not boilerplate.
