Golang Refactoring

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).

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/golang-refactoring
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/golang-refactoring/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/golang-refactoring/SKILL.md

@misc{golang-refactoring-2026,
  author    = {samber},
  title     = {Golang Refactoring [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/golang-refactoring/}
}