Go Code Review Patterns

This skill provides Go code review patterns synthesized from 4,100+ actual PR review comments spanning 4.5 years. These patterns represent real-world feedback from experienced Go engineers reviewing production code in a large monorepo.

Pattern Frequency Analysis

Based on analysis of 16,427 Go-specific review comments:

• Testing patterns: 3,875 comments (24%)
• Proto/gRPC patterns: 2,417 comments (15%)
• Code suggestions: 1,930 comments (12%)
• Naming patterns: 1,165 comments (7%)
• Error handling: 1,127 comments (7%)
• Code simplification: 1,119 comments (7%)
• Nit comments: 955 comments (6%)
• Documentation: 821 comments (5%)
• Concurrency: 674 comments (4%)