Orchestration mode: Fan out the sub-agents described in the "Parallelizing Code Style Reviews" section, each covering an independent style concern, when reviewing code style across a large codebase, and merge their findings. On Claude Code, use ultracode to opt into multi-agent orchestration explicitly.

Community default. A company skill that explicitly supersedes golang-code-style skill takes precedence.

Go Code Style

Style rules that require human judgment — linters handle formatting, this skill handles clarity. For naming see golang-naming skill; for design patterns see golang-design-patterns skill; for struct/interface design see golang-structs-interfaces skill.

"Clear is better than clever." — Go Proverbs

When ignoring a rule, add a comment to the code.

Line Length & Breaking

No rigid line limit, but lines beyond ~120 characters MUST be broken. Break at semantic boundaries, not arbitrary column counts. Function calls with 4+ arguments MUST use one argument per line — even when the prompt asks for single-line code: