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Included rules

Reviews are useless without some rules to check against. ansible-later comes with a set of built-in checks, which are explained in the following table.

Rule	ID	Description	Parameter
CheckYamlEmptyLines	YML101	YAML should not contain unnecessarily empty lines.	{max: 1, max-start: 0, max-end: 1}
CheckYamlIndent	YML102	YAML should be correctly indented.	{spaces: 2, check-multi-line-strings: false, indent-sequences: true}
CheckYamlHyphens	YML103	YAML should use consistent number of spaces after hyphens (-).	{max-spaces-after: 1}
CheckYamlDocumentStart	YML104	YAML should contain document start marker.	{document-start: {present: true}}
CheckYamlColons	YML105	YAML should use consistent number of spaces around colons.	{colons: {max-spaces-before: 0, max-spaces-after: 1}}
CheckYamlFile	YML106	Roles file should be in YAML format.
CheckYamlHasContent	YML107	Files should contain useful content.
CheckNativeYaml	YML108	Use YAML format for tasks and handlers rather than key=value.	{native-yaml: {exclude: []}}
CheckYamlDocumentEnd	YML109	YAML should contain document end marker.	{document-end: {present: true}}
CheckTaskSeparation	ANS101	Single tasks should be separated by an empty line.
CheckMetaMain	ANS102	Meta file should contain a basic subset of parameters.	author, description, min_ansible_version, platforms, dependencies
CheckUniqueNamedTask	ANS103	Tasks and handlers must be uniquely named within a file.
CheckBraces	ANS104	YAML should use consistent number of spaces around variables.	{double-braces: max-spaces-inside: 1, min-spaces-inside: 1}
CheckScmInSrc	ANS105	Use SCM key rather than src: scm+url in requirements file.
CheckNamedTask	ANS106	Tasks and handlers must be named.	{named-task: {exclude: [meta, debug, block, include_*, import_*]}}
CheckNameFormat	ANS107	Name of tasks and handlers must be formatted.	formats: first letter capital
CheckCommandInsteadofModule	ANS108	Commands should not be used in place of modules.
CheckInstallUseLatest	ANS109	Package managers should not install with state=latest.
CheckShellInsteadCommand	ANS110	Use Shell only when piping, redirecting or chaining commands.
CheckCommandHasChanges	ANS111	Commands should be idempotent and only used with some checks.
CheckCompareToEmptyString	ANS112	Don't compare to "" - use when: var or when: not var.
CheckCompareToLiteralBool	ANS113	Don't compare to True/False - use when: var or when: not var.
CheckLiteralBoolFormat	ANS114	Literal bools should be consistent.	{literal-bools: [True, False, yes, no]}
CheckBecomeUser	ANS115	Become should be combined with become_user.
CheckFilterSeparation	ANS116	Jinja2 filters should be separated with spaces.
CheckCommandInsteadOfArgument	ANS117	Commands should not be used in place of module arguments.
CheckFilePermissionMissing	ANS118	File permissions unset or incorrect.
CheckFilePermissionOctal	ANS119	Octal file permissions must contain leading zero or be a string.
CheckGitHasVersion	ANS120	Git checkouts should use explicit version.
CheckMetaChangeFromDefault	ANS121	Roles meta/main.yml default values should be changed.
CheckWhenFormat	ANS122	Don't use Jinja2 in when.
CheckNestedJinja	ANS123	Don't use nested Jinja2 pattern.
CheckLocalAction	ANS124	Don't use local_action.
CheckRelativeRolePaths	ANS125	Don't use a relative path in a role.
CheckChangedInWhen	ANS126	Use handlers instead of when: changed.
CheckChangedInWhen	ANS127	Deprecated bare variables in loops must not be used.
CheckDeprecated	ANS999	Deprecated features of ansible-later should not be used.