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Included rules

Reviews are nothing without some rules or standards against which to review. ansible-later comes with a couple of built-in checks explained in the following table.

Rule	ID	Description	Parameter
CheckYamlEmptyLines	LINT0001	YAML should not contain unnecessarily empty lines.	{max: 1, max-start: 0, max-end: 1}
CheckYamlIndent	LINT0002	YAML should be correctly indented.	{spaces: 2, check-multi-line-strings: false, indent-sequences: true}
CheckYamlHyphens	LINT0003	YAML should use consitent number of spaces after hyphens (-).	{max-spaces-after: 1}
CheckYamlDocumentStart	LINT0004	YAML should contain document start marker.	{document-start: {present: true}}
CheckYamlColons	LINT0005	YAML should use consitent number of spaces around colons.	{colons: {max-spaces-before: 0, max-spaces-after: 1}}
CheckYamlFile	LINT0006	Roles file should be in yaml format.
CheckYamlHasContent	LINT0007	Files should contain useful content.
CheckNativeYaml	LINT0008	Use YAML format for tasks and handlers rather than key=value.
CheckYamlDocumentEnd	LINT0009	YAML should contain document end marker.	{document-end: {present: true}}
CheckLineBetweenTasks	ANSIBLE0001	Single tasks should be separated by an empty line.
CheckMetaMain	ANSIBLE0002	Meta file should contain a basic subset of parameters.	author, description, min_ansible_version, platforms, dependencies
CheckUniqueNamedTask	ANSIBLE0003	Tasks and handlers must be uniquely named within a file.
CheckBraces	ANSIBLE0004	YAML should use consitent number of spaces around variables.
CheckScmInSrc	ANSIBLE0005	Use scm key rather than src: scm+url in requirements file.
CheckNamedTask	ANSIBLE0006	Tasks and handlers must be named.	excludes: meta, debug, include_*, import_*, block
CheckNameFormat	ANSIBLE0007	Name of tasks and handlers must be formatted.	formats: first letter capital
CheckCommandInsteadofModule	ANSIBLE0008	Commands should not be used in place of modules.
CheckInstallUseLatest	ANSIBLE0009	Package managers should not install with state=latest.
CheckShellInsteadCommand	ANSIBLE0010	Use Shell only when piping, redirecting or chaining commands.
CheckCommandHasChanges	ANSIBLE0011	Commands should be idempotent and only used with some checks.
CheckEmptyStringCompare	ANSIBLE0012	Don't compare to "" - use when: var or when: not var.
CheckCompareToLiteralBool	ANSIBLE0013	Don't compare to True/False - use when: var or when: not var.
CheckLiteralBoolFormat	ANSIBLE0014	Literal bools should be written as True/False or yes/no.	forbidden values are true false TRUE FALSE Yes No YES NO
CheckBecomeUser	ANSIBLE0015	become should be always used combined with become_user.
CheckFilterSeparation	ANSIBLE0016	Jinja2 filters should be separated with spaces.
CheckCommandInsteadOfArgument	ANSIBLE0017	Commands should not be used in place of module arguments.