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Golang refactoring — safe, at-scale restructuring of existing Go code: a coverage-adaptive safety net, behavior-preserving transforms (gopls Rename/Extract, `gofmt -r`, `gopatch`), the Fowler catalog mapped to Go, breaking import cycles, and small stacked PRs. Apply when a functi
Golang refactoring — safe, at-scale restructuring of existing Go code: a coverage-adaptive safety net, behavior-preserving transforms (gopls Rename/Extract, `gofmt -r`, `gopatch`), the Fowler catalog mapped to Go, breaking import cycles, and small stacked PRs. Apply when a function or type has grown too large, a code smell blocks a feature, or the user asks to refactor Go code — also for renaming at scale, extracting functions or interfaces, moving code between packages, or planning a multi-step refactor. Target styles owned elsewhere → See `samber/cc-skills-golang@golang-naming` (renames), `samber/cc-skills-golang@golang-project-layout` (splits), `samber/cc-skills-golang@golang-modernize` (idioms), `samber/cc-skills-golang@golang-code-style` (control flow), `samber/cc-skills-golang@golang-design-patterns` (patterns/DI).
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samber/cc-skills-golang@golang-refactoringskill 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:
ultracode.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.
Dependencies: gopls (primary actuator) — go install golang.org/x/tools/gopls@latest. Optional: golangci-lint, benchstat, deadcode, eg, gopatch. Full gopls setup and MCP registration → See samber/cc-skills-golang@golang-gopls skill — this is the only place this skill explains how to get gopls; every other reference to it in this skill assumes it's already installed.
text/template field references) — a safety net still matters.Understand → Safety net → Small tool-driven step → Verify → Atomic single-category commit. Repeat.
go build ./... && go vet ./... && go test ./...; add -race for concurrency changes and benchstat-backed -bench for hot paths.var temporaries rather than duplicating them.gofmt -r → eg → gopatch → a go/analysis fixer, in order of increasing power (see go-tooling.md).type A = B) for every type moved across packages.
Refactoring is an investment that only pays off if a future change is coming to spend it on. Question it — or skip it — when:
| Risk | Transforms | Safety requirement |
|---|---|---|
| Low | gopls Rename, Extract Variable/Constant, Inline Variable, gofmt -s, organize imports, local refactor.rewrite.* actions | Build/vet/test after the step is enough |
| Medium | Extract Function/Method (Extract i |
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> **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](references/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](references/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.
**Dependencies:** `gopls` (primary actuator) — `go install golang.org/x/tools/gopls@latest`. Optional: `golangci-lint`, `benchstat`, `deadcode`, `eg`, `gopatch`. Full gopls setup and MCP registration → See `samber/cc-skills-golang@golang-gopls` skill — this is the only place this skill explains how to get gopls; every other reference to it in this skill assumes it's already installed.
# Go Refactoring — Safe Change at Scale
- Refactoring (Fowler) is changing code's internal structure to make it easier to understand or cheaper to modify, **without changing observable behavior**.
- Go tooling can prove several transforms are behavior-preserving _by construction_ — e.g. gopls refuses a Rename rather than risk a broken build.
- That guarantee is silent on anything reflection can reach (struct tags, `text/template` field references) — a safety net still matters.
## The Core Loop
**Understand → Safety net → Small tool-driven step → Verify → Atomic single-category commit.** Repeat.
1. **Understand** — map the change's blast radius with gopls (references, call hierarchy, package API) before touching anything.
2. **Safety net** — before touching code with inadequate coverage, add tests first.
- Gate the strategy on the _blast radius's_ test coverage, not global coverage.
- Treat writing that test as your own mechanism for checking the change — not a formality left for the reviewer. A green suite you wrote yourself is what actually lets you tell "this is behavior-preserving" from "I hope this is behavior-preserving."
- See [safety-net.md](references/safety-net.md) for the HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW thresholds and characterization-testing recipes for untested code.
3. **Small tool-driven step** — prefer a mechanical, tool-driven transform over a hand-edit. See [go-tooling.md](references/go-tooling.md) and [catalog.md](references/catalog.md).
4. **Verify** — `go build ./... && go vet ./... && go test ./...`; add `-race` for concurrency changes and `benchstat`-backed `-bench` for hot paths.
5. **Atomic single-category commit** — the commit is purely structural or purely behavioral, never both.
## Hard Rules
- **Never mix structural and behavioral changes in one commit or PR.**
- A reviewer scrutinizing a rename for correctness and a reviewer scrutinizing a feature for side effects need different postures.
- Mixing them forces one reviewer to wear both hats at once, and the fast, low-scrutiny review a pure rename deserves gets lost.
- **Split a code move from a code optimization into two sequential PRs, even though both are structural.**
- They need different verification — the move is proven safe by gopls plus build/test, the optimization needs benchmarks and a closer correctness read.
- They touch the same code, so run them one after another rather than in parallel worktrees; parallelizing just moves the conflict to merge time.
- Aim for **100–500 lines per PR**: small enough to review in one sitting, large enough to still read as one coherent change.
- **Prefer gopls Rename/Inline over LLM hand-edits.**
- Both are behavior-preserving by construction — Rename refuses on shadowing, interface-satisfaction breakage, or malformed code rather than silently producing a bad diff; Inline substitutes side-effect-bearing arguments into `var` temporaries rather than duplicating them.
- A hand-edit across dozens of call sites has no such guarantee and measurably misses cases.
- **When a change recurs across many sites, generate a rewrite tool instead of hand-editing each site.**
- Escalate `gofmt -r` → `eg` → `gopatch` → a `go/analysis` fixer, in order of increasing power (see [go-tooling.md](references/go-tooling.md)).
- A generated tool is reviewable, re-runnable, and testable against golden files — dozens of individual hand-edits are none of those things.
- **Use a type alias (`type A = B`) for every type moved across packages.**
- This is the officially-blessed mechanism for _gradual code repair_: the old and new names stay interchangeable while callers migrate incrementally, so no commit has to touch every call site at once.
- See [structural.md](references/structural.md).
- **Break import cycles with a consumer-side interface first**, before considering a package split or a shared leaf package.
- Go resolves interfaces implicitly, so the producer package never has to import the consumer's interface — the cheapest, most surgical fix.
- See [structural.md](references/structural.md).
- **Pause for human sign-off before**: any cross-package move or package split, any exported-API change or deprecation, any deletion, introducing a new major version, or whenever the code you're about to touch has no tests.
- These are the moves a wrong call is expensive to undo.
- **Grep for tag and reflection references after any rename.**
- gopls Rename only guards against _compilation_ breakage — it cannot see a struct tag, a `text/template` field reference, or a `reflect`-driven dispatch that still points at the old name.
- Renaming a field silently desyncs it from its `json`/`db` tag.
- **Load `samber/cc-skills-golang@golang-security` (and `golang-safety` for internal-correctness risk) whenever a step changes code logic, not just its shape.**
- A mechanical, tool-verified transform can't introduce a vulnerability, but a behavioral change can.
- Treat "changes what the code does" as the trigger for a security-and-safety pass, not an afterthought reserved for the final review.
- **Start every step from a clean, committed baseline, and revert rather than debug forward when it goes red.**
- Version control is the safety net underneath the test safety net.
- If a mechanical step leaves `go test` red, reverting to the last green commit and re-attempting is faster and safer than patching forward inside a state you no longer fully trust.
- Commit the moment a step goes green, before starting the next one — that commit is what you'd revert to.
## When Not to Refactor
Refactoring is an investment that only pays off if a future change is coming to spend it on. Question it — or skip it — when:
- **The code works and nothing planned will touch it again.**
- A stable, rarely-read package earns nothing from being restructured for its own sake.
- The risk of even a small staged refactor has to be repaid by an easier next change, and there may not be one.
- **It's critical production code with no tests.** Don't refactor it directly.
- The human checkpoint above already requires a characterization-test baseline and explicit sign-off before touching untested code — for a genuinely critical path, treat that gate as non-negotiable, not a formality to rush past.
- **The deadline is tight.**
- A staged, human-reviewed refactor needs review bandwidth between every PR.
- Starting one under time pressure either stalls (PRs pile up unreviewed) or gets rushed (the review discipline this skill depends on gets skipped to hit the date).
- Make the minimal safe change now and stage the larger refactor for when there's room for it.
- **There's no clear purpose.**
- "Refactor this" with no reason behind it — no upcoming feature it'll make easier, no bug class it'll close off, no smell a review actually flagged — is refactoring for its own sake.
- Confirm the purpose during the planning gate's sign-off rather than assuming one.
## Risk Stratification
| Risk | Transforms | Safety requirement |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Low** | gopls Rename, Extract Variable/Constant, Inline Variable, `gofmt -s`, organize imports, local `refactor.rewrite.*` actions | Build/vet/test after the step is enough |
| **Medium** | Extract Function/Method (Extract iSkill source recorded
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text/template field reference, or a reflect-driven dispatch that still points at the old name.json/db tag.samber/cc-skills-golang@golang-security (and golang-safety for internal-correctness risk) whenever a step changes code logic, not just its shape.
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