# Setup > Verify the go-format hook's runtime prerequisites and configuration for this repository. Use when: 'set up go-format', 'configure go-format', 'is go-format working', Go import/formatting fixes silently aren't happening, or the hook reported a missing prerequisite. Actions: check (read-only verification, default) | apply (resolve what check found). Re-runnable and safe. - Skill: `melodic-software/setup-13` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add melodic-software/setup-13` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/melodic-software/setup-13/raw - Safety review: pending - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: Coding & Dev Tools - Author: melodic-software (https://skillmd.com/u/melodic-software) - Updated: 2026-09-17 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/melodic-software/setup-13 --- ## Purpose Thin check-centric setup per the uniform setup contract (`docs/PLUGIN-PHILOSOPHY.md` "Setup is explicit and repeatable" in the marketplace repository): `check` inspects and reports, `apply` resolves. This plugin owns no consumer-project configuration. It runs unconditionally (no consumer-config opt-in gate, unlike sibling formatter plugins Ruff/typos), so the only tunable is the native `userConfig` toggle. Like `typos-format`, `goimports` has no per-repo dependency-manager install path in the way Ruff's `.venv` does. It is conventionally `go install`ed to the machine-global `$GOPATH/bin`, never as a project dependency. `apply` is therefore guidance-only: it never installs anything, matching the hook's own PATH-only resolution and the plugin philosophy's never-download-silently rule. Action routing: no argument or `check` runs the check; `apply` runs the check first, then prints remediation guidance for each FAIL. Both are non-interactive. Never prompt when the action is given. ## `check` (read-only) The hook script (`${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/go-format.sh`) is the single source of truth for what it requires and how it resolves things. **Read it first.** Probe what it actually does, don't recite this file. Then run each probe via Bash and report a PASS/FAIL/INFO table with one remediation line per FAIL. Do not modify anything. When the plugin's toggle is disabled, every prerequisite absence downgrades from FAIL to INFO. The hook exits through its enabled-gate before probing anything, so a deliberately disabled plugin is not broken. Report the probes informationally and note that re-enabling restores the FAIL semantics. 1. **Bash version.** Check against the hook's documented floor (README Requirements), noting any features the hook degrades without (telemetry's `EPOCHREALTIME`, Bash 5.0+). 2. **`jq`.** `command -v jq`. FAIL if absent: the hook then skips with a visible once-per-session notice instead of formatting. 3. **`goimports` binary.** `command -v goimports` (the hook resolves PATH only, no `.venv`-style per-repo convention). Report the resolved path and `goimports -h`'s first line when found (goimports has no `--version` flag; the help header is the closest signal). FAIL when absent. The hook then emits a visible once-per-session skip notice instead of running. 4. **Hook toggle.** Report the effective `go_format_enabled` value: `${user_config.go_format_enabled}` (unexpanded or empty means default `true`). 5. **Hook registration.** INFO: confirm the plugin is enabled for this project (`/plugin` → Installed) rather than parsing settings files. There is no consumer-config probe (unlike `typos-format`'s config-walk check). This hook runs unconditionally by design; report that plainly as INFO, not as a gap. ## `apply` (idempotent) Run `check`, then for each FAIL print remediation guidance. Never install anything. There is no `apply install-goimports`-style write path: `go install golang.org/x/tools/cmd/goimports@latest` writes to the machine-global `$GOPATH/bin` (not project-scoped) and `@latest` is not idempotent-pinned, so the only responsible action is pointing at the command and letting the consumer run it themselves. After the consumer installs `goimports` themselves, re-run `check` and report its actual result. Never claim resolved without re-verifying. For everything else `apply` only points: - missing `goimports`: `go install golang.org/x/tools/cmd/goimports@latest` (requires a Go toolchain: https://go.dev/dl/). - missing `jq` / Bash: platform install instructions from the README Requirements section; this skill never installs system packages. - toggle off: reconfigure through Claude Code's native flow, per the marketplace's plugin-reconfiguration convention, which owns the verified-version record (): interactive `/plugin configure go-format@` any time, or headless `claude plugin install go-format@ -s --config go_format_enabled=true` (repeatable per key) — against an already-installed plugin it prints `already installed` **and still writes the value**. Do **not** uninstall to reconfigure: uninstalling drops this plugin's entire stored `pluginConfigs` entry, resetting every option in the README's Options reference to its manifest default. `-s` defaults to `user`; pass the scope `claude plugin list` reports for this plugin, and run from that project's directory for a `project`/`local` scope, or the write lands at a scope that does not load. This skill never writes user settings or `pluginConfigs`. Afterwards rerun `check` in a **fresh session** — the rendered `${user_config.*}` is injected at skill load and each hook receives its `CLAUDE_PLUGIN_OPTION_*` from an environment fixed at session start, so a same-session `check` still reports the OLD value; report the observed effective value, never an unobserved change. Re-running `apply` after everything passes changes nothing and reports "already configured". ## What this skill does NOT do - Run the formatter. Editing any `.go` file exercises the hook end-to-end. - Write the plugin cache, Claude Code user settings, or `pluginConfigs`. - Install `goimports`. Installation is always the consumer's own choice and command, at the machine level, never a project dependency this skill records. - Download or execute tools during `check` or `apply`.