name: programming
description: "Language-specific patterns and tooling: Go, Kotlin, PHP, Swift, TypeScript."
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  not_for: "Python (agents handle directly), general debugging (use debugging). When a dedicated language skill exists (php, swift, kotlin), prefer it over this umbrella"
  triggers:
    # Go
    - .go
    - go test
    - "*_test.go"
    - goroutine
    - sync.Mutex
    - context.Context
    - Go code review
    - Go lint
    - sapcc
    - make check
    # Kotlin
    - "kotlin coroutines"
    - "kotlin Flow"
    - "suspend function"
    - "kotlin testing"
    - kotest
    # PHP
    - "php quality"
    - "php code review"
    - "PSR standards"
    - phpstan
    - phpunit
    # Swift
    - "swift concurrency"
    - "swift async await"
    - "Swift Actor"
    - XCTest
    # TypeScript
    - "TypeScript check"
    - "tsc noEmit"
    - "tsc errors"
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    - programming-general-engineer
    - typescript-frontend-engineer

Programming

Language-specific patterns and tooling for Go, Kotlin, PHP, Swift, and TypeScript. Identify the language, load matching deep references, follow the language section.

Language Routing

Language	Agent	Section
Go	golang-general-engineer	Go
Kotlin	kotlin-general-engineer	Kotlin
PHP	php-general-engineer	PHP
Swift	swift-general-engineer	Swift
TypeScript	typescript-frontend-engineer	TypeScript

If the request spans multiple languages, apply each relevant section.

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Go

Style Precedence

1. Target repository's explicit rules and compatibility constraints.
2. Google Go Style Guide canonical rules.
3. Google Go Style Decisions normative guidance.
4. Google Go Style Best Practices non-canonical recommendations.
5. Task-specific deep references below.

Prefer local consistency only where the Google guide allows judgment. Do not restyle existing code without cause.

Workflow

1. Classify the task: testing, concurrency, error handling, code review, SAPCC conventions, or quality gate.
2. Load the matching deep reference.
3. Follow the reference's phases, gates, and completion criteria.

For testing: table-driven tests with subtests, test helpers, mock injection. Run go test ./.... Load references/go/testing.md. For concurrency: goroutine lifecycle, sync primitives, context propagation, race detection. Run go test -race. Load references/go/concurrency.md. For error handling: wrapping with %w, sentinel errors, errors.Is/errors.As, custom error types. Load references/go/error-handling.md. For code review: review checklist, common comments, interface compliance. Load references/go/code-review.md. For SAPCC repos: org conventions -- go-bits patterns, auth ordering, JSON strictness, endpoint identification. Load references/go/sapcc-conventions.md. For quality gate: run make check or equivalent. Load references/go/quality-gate.md.

Expert Review Patterns

Beyond linting -- patterns from real code reviews that automated tools miss:

• Type export design: keep implementation types unexported; export only interfaces and constructors.
• Batch+callback races: commit() should remove only the specific batch returned, not all items.
• Function extraction: extract only if reused elsewhere or hides complex details.
• Defer timing: place defer f.Close() after the error check, not before.
• Go 1.22+ loop variables: remove i := i reassignment and closure parameter passing -- each iteration has its own variable since 1.22.
• Prometheus metrics: pre-initialize counters with .Add(0) for all known label combinations.
• Test dedup: use testWithEachBackingStore() pattern to share test bodies across interface implementations.

Scripts

Task	Script
Generate table test	scripts/gen-table-test.sh
Benchmark compare	scripts/bench-compare.sh
Check errors	scripts/check-errors.sh
Interface compliance	scripts/check-interface-compliance.sh
SAPCC checks	scripts/check-sapcc-*.sh
Quality checker	scripts/quality_checker.py, scripts/validate.py
Google style sync	scripts/sync-google-style-guide.py

---

Kotlin

Core Rules

1. Structured concurrency is non-negotiable. Every coroutine must have a parent scope that defines its lifetime.
2. Inject dispatchers. Accept CoroutineDispatcher as a parameter so callers and tests control threading.
3. Always rethrow CancellationException. Catch specific exception types, not broad Exception.
4. Prefer Flow over Channel. Flow is cold, composable, handles backpressure. Use Channels only for producer-consumer and inter-coroutine communication.
5. Use supervisorScope for partial failure tolerance. Independent tasks that should not cancel each other.
6. No GlobalScope. Pass a scope from the application framework.

Stream Type Selection

Type	Temperature	Replay	Use Case
Flow	Cold	None	Async sequences, API pagination, transform chains
StateFlow	Hot	Latest (1)	UI state with current value; conflates duplicates
SharedFlow	Hot	Configurable	One-shot events: navigation, toasts, errors
Channel	Hot	None	Producer-consumer, fan-in/fan-out inter-coroutine communication

Flow: cold -- each collector gets its own execution. Chain with filter, map, flatMapConcat. Terminate with collect. StateFlow: requires initial value, always replays latest to new collectors. Use for UI state. SharedFlow: configurable replay, emits all values (no conflation). Use for event streams. Channel: hot communication primitive. Use produce builder for producer-consumer. Fan-out: multiple coroutines consuming one channel. Fan-in: multiple producers writing to one channel.

Workflow

1. Classify into concurrency, Flow, Channels, or testing.
2. Load matching deep reference.
3. Apply patterns from the reference as templates.

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PHP

Core Rules

• Every PHP file must begin with declare(strict_types=1).
• Follow PSR-12: 4-space indentation, no trailing whitespace, one class per file, visibility on all members, opening braces same line for control structures, next line for classes and methods.

Framework Idioms

Laravel: Eloquent scopes for reusable query constraints (scopeActive). Collection methods over raw loops (collect()->filter()->map()->sort()). Service Container for interface-to-implementation binding. Contextual binding with when()->needs()->give().

Symfony: DI with #[Autowire] attributes for constructor injection. #[AsEventListener] for event dispatch. Rely on autowiring over XML config.

Workflow

1. Assess. Classify: code review, type system, framework patterns, tooling setup, or test writing. Load matching deep reference.
2. Execute. For quality reviews: check strict_types, PSR-12, modern features, framework idioms, tooling. For testing: PHPUnit TestCase with test prefix, @dataProvider for table-driven, createStub() for returns, createMock() for interactions, parent::setUp() first in every setUp.
3. Verify. Run ./vendor/bin/phpunit. For coverage: XDEBUG_MODE=coverage ./vendor/bin/phpunit --coverage-text --coverage-min=80.

---

Swift

Core Rules

Concurrency:

• Prefer structured concurrency: TaskGroup over loose Task { }.
• Mark types Sendable. Enable -strict-concurrency=complete.
• Use actors for shared mutable state instead of manual locks. All access from outside is async.
• @MainActor for UI layer only. Use nonisolated for methods that only read let properties.
• Cancel what you create: every stored Task needs a cancellation path.

Testing:

• One assertion per concept. Arrange-Act-Assert structure.
• Name tests descriptively: testFetchUser_withExpiredToken_throwsAuthError.
• Prefer Swift Testing (@Test, #expect) for Swift 5.9+. Fall back to XCTest for older targets or UI tests.
• Parameterized tests with arguments:. Protocol-based mock injection.

Workflow

1. Assess. Classify: concurrency patterns, concurrency mistakes, test writing, or full concurrency review. Load matching deep reference.
2. Execute. For concurrency: verify structured concurrency, check Sendable conformance, validate actor isolation boundaries, confirm cancellation paths. For testing: Swift Testing for new code on 5.9+, XCTest for UI tests.
3. Verify. Run swift test --enable-code-coverage and swift build. Confirm strict concurrency checking passes.

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TypeScript

Read-only type validation. Do not fix code, change configuration, or install dependencies for a check-only request.

Run

1. Locate tsconfig.json (check src/, app/, packages/). In a monorepo, use the affected package or the repo's aggregate check. If no config exists, report and stop.
2. Confirm TypeScript is installed locally. Do not allow implicit npx download.
3. Run npx tsc --noEmit 2>&1 (or --project path/to/tsconfig.json). Capture exit code. Zero = pass; nonzero = type errors or tool failure (report which).
4. Report status and error count. Group diagnostics by file and line, retaining file:line:column, TS####, and the message.

Recovery

• TypeScript missing: suggest npm install typescript --save-dev.
• npx missing: use npm exec tsc -- --noEmit.
• Multiple configs: list checked and omitted packages. A single-package pass is not a whole-repository pass.
• --skipLibCheck: use only when configured or requested.
• --strict: enable only when configured or requested.
• --incremental: avoid for read-only checks (writes build-info cache).

For the full JS/TS check sequence: lint first, type-check next, then run tests.

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Deep References

Load only the references matching the task. Multiple may apply (e.g., a concurrency PR review loads both code-review and concurrency references).

Go

Signal	Reference
Tests, table-driven, helpers, mocks	references/go/testing.md + sub-refs in testing/
Goroutines, channels, sync, race conditions	references/go/concurrency.md + concurrency/concurrency-patterns.md
Error wrapping, sentinels, errors.Is/As	references/go/error-handling.md + error-handling/patterns.md
Code smells, bad patterns	references/go/preferred-patterns.md + preferred-patterns/code-examples.md
Code review process	references/go/code-review.md + code-review/common-review-comments.md
SAPCC repos, go-bits	references/go/sapcc-conventions.md + sub-refs in sapcc-conventions/
make check, linting	references/go/quality-gate.md + sub-refs in quality-gate/
Google style decisions	references/go/google-style-guide/ (pinned upstream)

Kotlin

Signal	Reference
Scopes, cancellation, dispatchers, exception handling	references/kotlin/concurrency-patterns.md
JUnit 5, Kotest, MockK, runTest	references/kotlin/kotlin-testing.md

PHP

Signal	Reference
Union/intersection types, enums, readonly, match	references/php/modern-php-features.md
PHP-CS-Fixer, PHPStan, Psalm, Rector	references/php/quality-tools.md
PHPUnit, data providers, mocks, stubs	references/php/testing-patterns.md

Swift

Signal	Reference
TaskGroup, AsyncSequence, AsyncStream, cancellation	references/swift/task-patterns.md
XCTest, Swift Testing, async tests, UI tests	references/swift/swift-testing.md