ansible-validator

Comprehensive toolkit for validating, linting, and testing Ansible playbooks, roles, and collections. This skill provides automated workflows for ensuring Ansible code quality, syntax validation, dry-run testing with check mode and molecule, and intelligent documentation lookup for custom modules and collections with version awareness.

IMPORTANT BEHAVIOR: When validating any Ansible role, this skill AUTOMATICALLY runs molecule tests if a molecule/ directory is detected in the role. This is non-negotiable and happens without asking for user permission. If molecule tests cannot run due to environmental issues (Docker, version compatibility), the skill documents the blocker but continues with other validation steps.

CRITICAL: Reference files are NOT optional. When issues are detected, the corresponding reference file MUST be read and its guidance applied to provide actionable remediation steps to the user. Simply mentioning the reference file path is insufficient - the content must be consulted and relevant guidance extracted.