Go development

Go policy and router. Keep this file loaded for any Go work. Load only the reference that matches the task.

Decision order

When rules conflict:

1. Safety and correctness.
2. Hard rules of coding-rules and this skill.
3. Repo consistency. Follow the patterns of the repo and its sibling services, even if a generic shortcut is shorter.
4. Good practices, when the repo has no local pattern.
5. YAGNI. The smallest readable change within the above.

Minimalism cuts invented complexity. It does not override the hard rules. Mark a deliberate shortcut with a known limit as // ponytail: <limit>; <upgrade path>. Details are in references/development-balance.md.

Hard rules