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version: 2
engines:
golint:
enabled: true
config:
min_confidence: 0.8 # Ignore very low-confidence style warnings

gofmt:
enabled: true
config:
simplify: true # Automatically check for code simplifications

govet:
enabled: true
config:
check_shadowing: true # Detect variable shadowing for cleaner logic

duplication:
enabled: true
config:
languages:
- go
go:
threshold: 40 # Minimum token threshold before flagging duplication

ratings:
paths:
- "**.go"
- "**/*.go"

exclude_paths:
- "vendor/**" # Ignore dependencies
- "testdata/**" # Ignore test data
- "mocks/**" # Ignore generated mocks
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⚠️ Potential issue | 🔴 Critical

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Configuration format is incompatible with CodeClimate v2 API.

CodeClimate v2 uses checks and plugins sections, along with exclude_patterns at the root level, not the engines block. Additionally, exclusions should use exclude_patterns key, not exclude_paths.

The file declares version: 2 but uses the v1 API structure, which will likely cause CodeClimate to reject this configuration.

Apply this diff to align with CodeClimate v2 API:

- version: 2
+ version: "2"
- engines:
-   golint:
-     enabled: true
-     config:
-       min_confidence: 0.8   # Ignore very low-confidence style warnings
-
-   gofmt:
-     enabled: true
-     config:
-       simplify: true        # Automatically check for code simplifications
-
-   govet:
-     enabled: true
-     config:
-       check_shadowing: true # Detect variable shadowing for cleaner logic
-
-   duplication:
-     enabled: true
-     config:
-       languages:
-         go:
-           threshold: 40     # Minimum token threshold before flagging duplication
-
- ratings:
-   paths:
-     - "**/*.go"
-
- exclude_paths:
-   - "vendor/**"             # Ignore dependencies
-   - "testdata/**"           # Ignore test data
-   - "mocks/**"              # Ignore generated mocks
+ checks:
+   # Built-in maintainability checks enabled by default
+   similar-code:
+     enabled: true
+     config:
+       threshold: 40         # Go-specific duplication threshold
+   identical-code:
+     enabled: true
+
+ plugins:
+   golangci-lint:            # Modern Go linting solution
+     enabled: true
+
+ exclude_patterns:
+   - "vendor/"               # Ignore dependencies
+   - "**/testdata/"          # Ignore test data
+   - "**/mocks/"             # Ignore generated mocks

Note: golint is available as a CodeClimate plugin, and govet is also available, but consider using golangci-lint (shown in the diff) for comprehensive Go linting.






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🌐 Web query:

```web
CodeClimate v2 configuration format engines checks plugins

💡 Result:

Summary — Code Climate analysis config (version 2)

  • Top-level: version: "2". Main sections: prepare (fetch), checks, plugins, exclude_patterns. [1]
  • checks: configure built-in maintainability checks (all enabled by default). Each check entry: enabled: true|false and optional config: { ... } to tune thresholds. Example:
    checks:
    complex-logic:
    enabled: true
    config:
    threshold: 50. [1]
  • plugins: (previously called engines) enable/disable third‑party/analyzer plugins and choose channels/versions. Each plugin entry supports enabled: true|false, channel: (stable default), and config: { ... }. Example:
    plugins:
    eslint:
    enabled: true
    channel: "eslint-6" . [1]
  • exclude_patterns: glob/regex patterns to exclude files/directories from analysis; if no file is committed Code Climate uses built-in defaults (node_modules, test directories, vendor, etc.). Exclusions can be global or plugin‑level (not per-check). [1][2]
  • Notes: version 2 replaced older syntax — engines → plugins, exclude_paths → exclude_patterns, ratings deprecated; include .codeclimate.yml (or .json) at repo root. [1]

Sources:
[1] Code Climate — Advanced configuration (analysis config structure, checks, plugins).
[2] Code Climate — Excluding files and folders (default exclude patterns).

🌐 Web query:

CodeClimate exclude_patterns exclude_paths v2 configuration

💡 Result:

Short answer

  • In Code Climate config version: "2" use the top-level key exclude_patterns (not the old exclude_paths). Patterns are shell-style globs (relative to repo root), may be quoted, and may be negated with a leading "!".
  • You can also set exclude_patterns under a specific plugin to exclude paths only for that plugin (these are applied in addition to the global excludes).

Example (.codeclimate.yml):
version: "2"
exclude_patterns:

  • "tests/"
  • "**/vendor/"
  • "!lib/keep_this.rb"
    plugins:
    rubocop:
    enabled: true
    exclude_patterns:
    • "vendor/"

Sources

  • Code Climate — Advanced configuration (notes that exclude_paths was renamed to exclude_patterns in v2). [1]
  • Code Climate — Excluding files and folders (pattern format, negation, plugin-level excludes, examples). [2]

🌐 Web query:

CodeClimate golint gofmt govet v2 supported engines

💡 Result:

Yes — Code Climate's engines include gofmt, golint, and govet (they are official Go engines). Note: the golint plugin is marked deprecated/unmaintained in the docs. [1][2][3][4]

Sources:

  • Code Climate engines list. [1]
  • golint engine docs (deprecated). [2]
  • gofmt engine docs. [3]
  • govet engine docs. [4]

Configuration format is incompatible with CodeClimate v2 API.

CodeClimate v2 uses checks and plugins sections, along with exclude_patterns at the root level. The file declares version: 2 but uses engines (v1 format) and exclude_paths (v1 key). In v2, engines were renamed to plugins and exclude_paths was renamed to exclude_patterns, so this configuration will not work as intended.

Additionally, the golint plugin is marked deprecated/unmaintained, so consider replacing it with golangci-lint for comprehensive Go linting.

Update the configuration structure to use plugins and exclude_patterns as shown in the original review comment's diff.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents 
In .codeclimate.yml around lines 1 to 32, the config uses the v1 keys `engines`
and `exclude_paths` which are incompatible with CodeClimate v2; update the file
to use `plugins` (replace each engine with the corresponding plugin entry,
replacing deprecated golint with golangci-lint) and rename `exclude_paths` to
`exclude_patterns` at the root, and ensure the new structure includes
appropriate plugin configs and any threshold/settings previously present so
CodeClimate v2 recognizes and runs the Go checks.

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