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lint?

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, yaml
Domain
tooling

Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating the YAML definition parsing or validation entry point and any existing validation tests; done means the project can lint YAML definitions and report common errors such as a captures value supplied as an array instead of a dictionary.

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Description

It would be useful to be able to lint a yaml definition for common errors.

An example of a common error that would be nice to check for is a captures being an array rather than a dictionary.

Dominant language
JavaScript
Stars
10
Forks
3
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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