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Golang Refactoring

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Golang refactoring — the safe, at-scale process for restructuring existing Go code: a coverage-adaptive safety net, tool-driven behavior-preserving transforms (gopls Rename/Inline/Extract, gofmt -r, eg, gopatch, go/analysis fixers), the Fowler catalog mapped to Go, breaking import cycles, moving types across packages, and a human-in-the-loop workflow of small stacked PRs on a refactoring branch. Apply when code is hard to maintain, a function/type has grown too large, a code smell needs fixing, adding a feature is blocked by the current structure, or the user asks to clean up, refactor, or improve Go code — also for renaming at scale, extracting functions/interfaces, moving code between packages, splitting packages, or planning a multi-step refactor. Target styles owned elsewhere → See samber/cc-skills-golang@golang-naming (renames), @golang-project-layout (splits), @golang-modernize (idioms), @golang-code-style (control flow), @golang-design-patterns (patterns/DI).

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Golang refactoring — the safe, at-scale process for restructuring existing Go code: a coverage-adaptive safety net, tool-driven behavior-preserving transforms (gopls Rename/Inline/Extract, gofmt -r, eg, gopatch, go/analysis fixers), the Fowler catalog mapped to Go, breaking import cycles, moving types across packages, and a human-in-the-loop workflow of small stacked PRs on a refactoring branch. Apply when code is hard to maintain, a function/type has grown too large, a code smell needs fixing, adding a feature is blocked by the current structure, or the user asks to clean up, refactor, or improve Go code — also for renaming at scale, extracting functions/interfaces, moving code between packages, splitting packages, or planning a multi-step refactor. Target styles owned elsewhere → See samber/cc-skills-golang@golang-naming (renames), @golang-project-layout (splits), @golang-modernize (idioms), @golang-code-style (control flow), @golang-design-patterns (patterns/DI).

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Category
Engineering
Reported license
MIT
Listing language (estimated)
English
Review status
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Agent compatibility
Atlas installation supports Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Skill-specific dependencies and features are checked during setup.
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