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+# schema
+
+The `schema` rule validates Ansible metadata files against JSON schemas. These
+schemas ensure the compatibility of Ansible syntax content across versions.
+
+This `schema` rule is **mandatory**. You cannot use inline `noqa` comments to
+ignore it.
+
+Ansible-lint validates the `schema` rule before processing other rules. This
+prevents unexpected syntax from triggering multiple rule violations.
+
+## Validated schema
+
+Ansible-lint currently validates several schemas that are maintained in separate
+projects and updated independently to ansible-lint.
+
+> Report bugs related to schema in their respective repository and not in the
+> ansible-lint project.
+
+Maintained in the [ansible-lint](https://github.com/ansible/ansible-lint)
+project:
+
+- `schema[ansible-lint-config]` validates
+  [ansible-lint configuration](https://github.com/ansible/ansible-lint/blob/main/src/ansiblelint/schemas/ansible-lint-config.json)
+
+Maintained in the
+[ansible-navigator](https://github.com/ansible/ansible-navigator) project:
+
+- `schema[ansible-navigator]` validates
+  [ansible-navigator configuration](https://github.com/ansible/ansible-navigator/blob/main/src/ansible_navigator/data/ansible-navigator.json)
+
+- `schema[arg_specs]` validates
+  [module argument specs](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing_program_flow_modules.html#argument-spec)
+- `schema[execution-environment]` validates
+  [execution environments](https://docs.ansible.com/automation-controller/latest/html/userguide/execution_environments.html)
+- `schema[galaxy]` validates
+  [collection metadata](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/collections_galaxy_meta.html).
+- `schema[inventory]` validates
+  [inventory files](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/inventory_guide/intro_inventory.html)
+  that match `inventory/*.yml`.
+- `schema[meta-runtime]` validates
+  [runtime information](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_collections_structure.html#meta-directory-and-runtime-yml)
+  that matches `meta/runtime.yml`
+- `schema[meta]` validates metadata for roles that match `meta/main.yml`. See
+  [role-dependencies](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbook_guide/playbooks_reuse_roles.html#role-dependencies)
+  or
+  [role/metadata.py](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/playbook/role/metadata.py#L79))
+  for details.
+- `schema[playbook]` validates Ansible playbooks.
+- `schema[requirements]` validates Ansible
+  [requirements](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/galaxy/user_guide.html#install-multiple-collections-with-a-requirements-file)
+  files that match `requirements.yml`.
+- `schema[tasks]` validates Ansible task files that match `tasks/**/*.yml`.
+- `schema[vars]` validates Ansible
+  [variables](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbook_guide/playbooks_variables.html)
+  that match `vars/*.yml` and `defaults/*.yml`.
+
+## schema[meta]
+
+For `meta/main.yml` files, Ansible-lint requires a `galaxy_info.standalone`
+property that clarifies if a role is an old standalone one or a new one,
+collection based:
+
+```yaml
+galaxy_info:
+  standalone: true # <-- this is a standalone role (not part of a collection)
+```
+
+Ansible-lint requires the `standalone` key to avoid confusion and provide more
+specific error messages. For example, the `meta` schema will require some
+properties only for standalone roles or prevent the use of some properties that
+are not supported by collections.
+
+You cannot use an empty `meta/main.yml` file or use only comments in the
+`meta/main.yml` file.
+
+## schema[moves]
+
+These errors usually look like "foo was moved to bar in 2.10" and indicate
+module moves between Ansible versions.