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Go review guidelines

This project uses Go for the CLI (cmd/cog/, pkg/) and support tooling (tools/).

What linters already catch (skip these)

golangci-lint runs errcheck, gocritic, gosec, govet, ineffassign, misspell, revive, staticcheck, and unused. Don't flag issues these would catch.

What to look for

Error handling

• Errors returned but not checked or silently discarded
• User-facing errors should use pkg/errors.CodedError with error codes
• Generic error wrapping that loses context (fmt.Errorf("failed") with no %w)

Imports

• Should be three groups: stdlib, third-party, internal (github.com/replicate/cog/pkg/...)
• Only flag if actually wrong, not cosmetic reordering

Testing

• Must use testify/require for fatal assertions and testify/assert for non-fatal
• No raw if checks with t.Fatal/t.Errorf
• Prefer table-driven tests for similar cases
• Prefer specific assertions (Equal, Contains, NoError) over True/False

Concurrency

• Goroutine leaks (no cleanup path, missing context cancellation)
• Shared state without synchronization
• Channel misuse (sends on closed channels, unbuffered channels in wrong contexts)

Docker/container patterns

• The CLI uses the Docker Go SDK. Watch for leaked clients, unclosed response bodies
• Dockerfile generation is in pkg/dockerfile/ -- template injection risks

Architecture

• Commands belong in pkg/cli/, business logic in pkg/
• Config parsing/validation in pkg/config/
• Don't mix CLI concerns with library logic