| name | review-coverage |
| description | Use when the user asks for a coverage review, test coverage analysis, coverage gap analysis, uncovered code review, or wants to know what new/changed Go code is missing tests. Runs `go test -coverprofile` against the resolved scope and reports uncovered functions in changed Go files, grouped by package, with severity grading. Go projects only. |
Coverage Review
Structured Go test-coverage review producing actionable findings: which new or modified functions in the scope are not exercised by the test suite. Reports per-package coverage and (when a baseline exists) per-package coverage delta.
Workflow
1. Scope and resolve
- Confirm scope with the user: full codebase, specific packages/directories, changed files only (PR or branch diff), or specific concern.
- Resolve scope to a file/package list. Based on what the user requested:
- Changed files (PR or branch): Run
git diff --name-only --diff-filter=d <base>...HEAD to get changed files (default <base> is main). If the user references a PR number, use gh pr diff <number> --name-only instead. Filter to .go files. Derive affected Go packages from the file paths (unique parent directories containing .go files).
- Explicit paths/packages: The user may specify directories (e.g.
internal/auth/), Go package patterns (e.g. ./internal/auth/...), or individual files. When given a directory or package pattern, include all .go files under it.
- Full codebase: No filtering. Coverage analysis applies to every package (default).
- Filter the resolved file list:
.go files only- Exclude
_test.go
- Exclude generated code: anything under
gen/, internal/store/db/, or files whose first 100 lines contain // Code generated or DO NOT EDIT
- Derive affected Go packages (unique parent dirs with surviving
.go files).
- If invoked from review-all: receive
file_list, package_paths, has_changes, base_ref, and REVIEW_DIR from the orchestrator. Skip your own scope confirmation and use the provided values directly.
- Set
has_changes true when scope is "changed files" or when explicit paths have a diff against the base ref. False for full-codebase reviews with no diff baseline. When false, the skill still reports per-package coverage but cannot compute a "changed functions" delta.
2. Run baseline coverage
Run from the repo root:
go test -short -count=1 -covermode=atomic -coverprofile=coverage.out -coverpkg=./... ./...
-coverpkg=./... ensures cross-package coverage so e2e and integration tests count toward unit packages.
If the test suite fails, surface the failure and stop. Do not attempt partial analysis or report misleading 0% coverage.
If a Taskfile.yaml defines a test:cover (or similar) target that runs equivalent coverage, prefer it over the raw command and capture its coverage.out output. If unsure, run the raw command above.
3. Parse the coverage profile
go tool cover -func=coverage.out
Parse output rows of the form <file>:<line>: <funcName> <percent>%. Filter rows to functions defined in the scoped/changed files (match by file path prefix). Compute per-package coverage by aggregating function-level results within each package directory.
4. Identify changed/new functions (when has_changes is true)
For each changed file, run git diff <base>...HEAD -- <file> and parse:
- Hunk headers (
@@ ... @@ func Name(...) or @@ ... @@ method (...) Name(...)) for surrounding function names
- Added lines (
+ prefix) to determine which functions were added or modified
Cross-reference the resulting set against the parsed coverage profile to find changed/new functions with 0% or low coverage.
5. Coverage delta (optional)
Locate the most recent prior review's coverage profile:
prev=$(ls -t reviews/*/coverage.out 2>/dev/null | head -1)
If found, compute per-package coverage delta (current % − prior %) for affected packages. If not found, omit the delta column.
Either way, persist the current profile to ${REVIEW_DIR}/coverage.out so the next run has a baseline.
6. Severity grading
Apply heuristics to each uncovered function:
- HIGH: function name or body involves error returns, security-sensitive operations (auth, decode, validate, sign, verify, decrypt, sanitize, escape), or panics/
os.Exit calls
- MEDIUM: uncovered business logic in non-helper packages with non-trivial branching
- LOW: getters, setters, formatters,
String() / Error() methods, trivial constructors, stringer-generated functions
Severity is applied by the investigation subagent's judgment based on reading the function body. No automated complexity check in v1.
7. Launch investigation subagent
Launch a single investigation subagent (subagent_type="generalPurpose", model: sonnet per subagent-model-routing) with the system context, scope, and parsed coverage data.
Future fan-out note: If this skill is ever split into per-package subagents for large codebases (e.g. listing uncovered functions per package), use model: haiku per subagent-model-routing — per-package uncovered-function listing is mechanical aggregation.
Prompt it to:
- Read the in-scope
.go files and any directly relevant test files in the same package.
- Use the per-function coverage data and changed-function set to identify uncovered or under-covered functions.
- Apply the severity heuristics from step 6 by reading function bodies.
- For each finding, search nearby code and project documentation (TODO/FIXME/HACK/XXX comments, README, issue references) for existing tracking.
- Return findings using the uncovered functions template with
COV- prefixed IDs.
- Every finding must include: package, function name, file:line, severity, and tracking status.
8. Present results
Resolve the review output directory (skip if REVIEW_DIR was provided by the review-all orchestrator):
REVIEW_DATE=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)
REVIEW_DIR=".reviews/${REVIEW_DATE}"
if [ -d "$REVIEW_DIR" ]; then REVIEW_DIR=".reviews/${REVIEW_DATE}-$(date +%H%M)"; fi
~/.claude/scripts/ensure-gitignore.sh '.reviews/'
mkdir -p "$REVIEW_DIR"
Capture run metadata (see Run metadata header below) and prepend the rendered block to ${REVIEW_DIR}/COVERAGE-REVIEW.md.
Write the output to ${REVIEW_DIR}/COVERAGE-REVIEW.md, structured as:
- Run metadata header
- Tool availability summary (Go version, test outcome, whether
coverage.out was produced, prior baseline location if any)
- Per-package coverage table (with delta column when baseline existed)
- Uncovered functions table (grouped by package, sorted by severity)
- Recommended fix order
Save the current coverage.out to ${REVIEW_DIR}/coverage.out.
Present the report to the user.
Run metadata header
Capture once near REVIEW_DIR resolution and prepend the rendered block to the output document:
RUN_DATETIME=$(date -u +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M UTC")
GIT_BRANCH=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
GIT_COMMIT=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)
GIT_COMMIT_FULL=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
GIT_SUBJECT=$(git log -1 --pretty=%s)
Header template (placed at the top of the output .md, before the H1 title):
> **Run:** {RUN_DATETIME}
> **Branch:** {GIT_BRANCH} @ {GIT_COMMIT} (`{GIT_COMMIT_FULL}`)
> **Subject:** {GIT_SUBJECT}
> **Base:** {BASE_REF} @ {BASE_COMMIT} <!-- omit when scope is not diff-based -->
> **Scope:** {scope description}
Finding link wrapping (PR mode)
When the review is scoped to a GitHub PR (pr_url is provided by the caller, or, when run standalone, gh pr view --json url -q .url 2>/dev/null returns one), wrap every path:line reference inside the finding tables below as a Markdown link:
~/.claude/scripts/pr-deeplink.sh "$pr_url" <path> <line>
The display text stays path:line so plain and linked tables look identical; only the URL goes in the link target. Pass L as the fourth argument for findings about removed code (default is R). Omit <line> for file-level findings to get a file-anchor link. Apply the same wrapping to path:line references inside the Tracked column (e.g. TODO in foo.go:42). Findings themselves follow terse-comments: concrete fix, optional bug:/risk:/nit:/unsure: prefix, no praise or restating the diff.
Output Templates
Per-package coverage
| Package | Coverage | Delta | Affected Functions |
|---------|----------|-------|--------------------|
| internal/auth | 78.4% | +2.1% | 3 changed, 1 uncovered |
| internal/store | 64.2% | — | 5 changed, 4 uncovered |
| internal/render | 91.0% | -3.5% | 2 changed, 0 uncovered |
When no baseline exists, omit the Delta column. When has_changes is false, replace Affected Functions with Functions and report total counts.
Uncovered functions
| # | Package | Function | File:Line | Severity | Tracked |
|---|---------|----------|-----------|----------|---------|
| COV1 | internal/auth | `verifyToken` | auth/verify.go:42 | HIGH | — |
| COV2 | internal/store | `formatRowKey` | store/key.go:18 | LOW | TODO in store/key.go:15 |
| COV3 | internal/render | `(*Page).Render` | render/page.go:104 | MEDIUM | — |
Tracked column values: Use — for new findings. For already-captured findings: TODO in file:line, FIXME in file:line, README, #123 (issue reference).
Tool availability
| Tool | Status | Notes |
|------|--------|-------|
| `go test -coverprofile` | ran | produced coverage.out (1.2 MB) |
| `go tool cover -func` | ran | parsed 412 functions |
| Prior baseline | found | reviews/2026-04-18/coverage.out |
Guidelines
- Single subagent. This skill uses one investigation subagent; coverage parsing is mechanical and the only judgment call is severity grading.
- When called from review-all, skip standalone
REVIEW_DIR resolution (the orchestrator owns it) and skip scope confirmation. Use the provided file list, package paths, has_changes flag, base ref, and REVIEW_DIR.
- No follow-up re-evaluation table. Coverage findings are derivable from current state on every run, unlike static-analysis findings which can persist after a fix.
- REVIEW.md integration: If a
REVIEW.md was provided by the review-all orchestrator (or exists at the repo root when running standalone), respect any Skip patterns by excluding matching files from scope, and treat any Always check rules touching coverage thresholds as HIGH-severity floors.
- Test failures stop the analysis. Do not generate a coverage report from a failed test run; the profile would be misleading or incomplete.
- Findings must cite probed evidence (
path:line, grep output, command result), not pattern-matched suspicion. Per ~/.claude/rules/probe-not-assume.md.
Boundary with adjacent skills
This skill's exclusive concern is new or modified Go code in this diff that the test suite does not exercise. Two adjacent skills cover related but distinct concerns; do not duplicate their checks here:
- review-reliability checks goroutine leak coverage via
goleak.VerifyNone / goleak.VerifyTestMain in tests. Different axis: leak detection in tests, not line/function coverage of source.
- review-code Subagent F (Regression History) flags test removal or weakening in the diff (regressions from gutting tests). Different axis: deleted-test detection on the diff side, not uncovered-new-code detection.
If a finding straddles these axes (e.g. a removed test reduced coverage of a security path), report only the coverage gap here; the adjacent skills will catch their own concerns when run together via /review-all.
