# winch validate

check the project without contacting a host

## Examples

```sh
# check the project
winch validate
```

```sh
# check the project with the inventory production
winch validate --inventory production
```

```sh
# check the project with a value for one variable
winch validate --set vars.release=1.4.2
```

## Usage

```
winch validate [flags]
```

Validate loads the project and checks it. It connects to no host.

It checks the schemas, the names, the module arguments, the variable reads and values, the expressions, and the templates.

It loads the inventory of --inventory, or of inventory in winch.yaml. Without both, it checks every inventory.

It does not decrypt secrets and needs no age key. It checks that each !secret is an age file. It warns about a secret whose number of recipients differs from the recipients list, and names winch secret rekey.

A --set value parses as YAML. Quote a value that YAML would change: --set 'vars.php\_version="8.0"'.

## Flags

| Flag | Value | Default | Meaning |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `--inventory` | `<name>` | inventory in winch.yaml, else all | inventory to check |
| `--set` | `vars.<name>=<value>` |  | variable value; repeatable |
| `--json` |  |  | JSON events on stdout |

## See

- `winch doc project`
- `winch doc variables`