Go Code Review

The go-code-review skill enables AI agents to perform automated code reviews specifically for Go (Golang) projects. It analyzes source code to identify potential bugs, security vulnerabilities, and style inconsistencies against standard practices.

When to use it

• Pre-merge validation: Run before pushing changes to ensure the team adheres to Go formatting and linting standards.
• Security auditing: Scan new dependencies or logic blocks for common Go-specific security flaws like buffer overflows or unsafe pointer usage.
• Onboarding assistance: Help junior developers understand best practices by highlighting deviations from idiomatic Go patterns in pull requests.
• Legacy refactoring: Evaluate older codebases to identify outdated library versions or deprecated functions that need updating.

Key capabilities

• Automated static analysis of Go source files.
• Detection of style violations and formatting errors.
• Identification of security vulnerabilities within the codebase.
• Context-aware suggestions for code improvements.

Example prompts

• "Review this Go function for potential race conditions and memory leaks."
• "Analyze the latest pull request to ensure it follows standard Go linting rules."
• "Scan the handlers package for security vulnerabilities before we deploy."

Tips & gotchas

Ensure your repository contains valid .go files, as the skill cannot analyze non-Go code or empty directories. For best results, provide specific file paths or context if the agent needs to focus on a particular module rather than reviewing the entire project at once.