diff --git a/.github/run-linter-locally.md b/.github/run-linter-locally.md
index 13f2c7d6..952c152e 100644
--- a/.github/run-linter-locally.md
+++ b/.github/run-linter-locally.md
@@ -70,6 +70,10 @@ Once the container has been downloaded to your local environment, you can then b
     - `-e VALIDATE_DOCKER=<true|false>`
     - Default: `true`
     - Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the language
+  - **VALIDATE_GO**
+    - `-e VALIDATE_GO=<true|false>`
+    - Default: `true`
+    - Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the language
   - **ANSIBLE_DIRECTORY**
     - `-e ANSIBLE_DIRECTORY=</path/local/to/codebase/with/ansible>`
     - Default: `/ansible`
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a545fc87..ac644bab 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Developers on **GitHub** can call this Action to lint their code base with the f
 - **XML** (LibXML)
 - **Coffeescript** (coffeelint)
 - **Javascript** (eslint)(standard)
+- **Golang** (golangci-lint)
 - **Dockerfile** (dockerfilelint)
 
 ## How to use
@@ -121,7 +122,10 @@ The super-linter allows you to pass the following `ENV` variables to be able to
   - Flag to set the root directory for Ansible file location(s)
 - **VALIDATE_DOCKER**
   - Default: `true`
-  - Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the language  
+  - Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the language
+- **VALIDATE_GO**
+  - Default: `true`
+  - Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the language
 - **VERBOSE_OUTPUT**
   - Default: `false`
   - Flag to enable additional information about the linter, versions, and additional output