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Create .golangci.yml configuration

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Assessment

Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
55/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go
Domain
build-system, tooling

Research direction

Start by inspecting the Makefile target that runs golangci-lint and confirm how configuration is discovered. Create .golangci.yml with the requested formatting, correctness, security, static-analysis, and style linters, after #22 is completed; done means the configured lint command runs successfully.

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Description

Create a .golangci.yml configuration file enabling additional linters:

  • gofmt, goimports - Code formatting
  • govet, errcheck - Code correctness
  • staticcheck, gosec - Security and static analysis
  • misspell, gocritic - Style

The Makefile already runs golangci-lint but there is no configuration file to customize which linters are enabled.

Dependencies

  • Depends on #22 (Go 1.25+ update)
Dominant language
Go
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  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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