chainctl policies custom validate

chainctl policies custom validate

Validate a custom policy manifest or expression without persisting it.

Synopsis

Validate a policy without creating it to catch problems.

Two modes are supported:

–file: validates a full policy manifest (YAML). Expression and parameters are both checked.

–expression: validates just a Rego expression (a raw .rego file). Useful during authoring for a fast parse + compile check.

Prints structured diagnostics on errors, indicating if the policy is invalid. Expression errors include the line and column in the Rego source; parameter-schema errors identify the offending field (e.g. parameter_schemas[0].name).

Policy expressions must be declared under package chainguard.policies and must define an allow rule; validation rejects a module that defines neither.

chainctl policies custom validate --file POLICY.yaml | --expression POLICY.rego [flags]

Examples

# Check an existing policy layout for reference
chainctl policies describe --policy cooldown --parent example.com -o json

# Validate a manifest before creating the policy
chainctl policies custom validate --file policy.yaml

# Validate just the Rego expression
chainctl policies custom validate --expression policy.rego

Options

  -e, --expression string   Path to a Rego expression (.rego) file. Validates the expression only; skips parameters.
  -f, --file string         Path to a policy manifest YAML file.

Options inherited from parent commands

      --api string         The url of the Chainguard platform API. (default "https://console-api.enforce.dev")
      --audience string    The Chainguard token audience to request. (default "https://console-api.enforce.dev")
      --config string      A specific chainctl config file. Uses CHAINCTL_CONFIG environment variable if a file is not passed explicitly.
      --console string     The url of the Chainguard platform Console. (default "https://console.chainguard.dev")
      --force-color        Force color output even when stdout is not a TTY.
  -h, --help               Help for chainctl
      --issuer string      The url of the Chainguard STS endpoint. (default "https://issuer.enforce.dev")
      --log-level string   Set the log level (debug, info) (default "ERROR")
  -o, --output string      Output format. One of: [csv, env, go-template, id, json, markdown, none, table, terse, tree, wide]
  -v, --v int              Set the log verbosity level.

SEE ALSO

• chainctl policies custom - Manage your custom policies.