alint

In-editor diagnostics, hover-to-explain, and quick-fixes for alint — the language-agnostic linter for repository structure, file existence, filename conventions, and file content rules.

The extension is a thin client: it launches alint lsp (the alint language server) and lets VS Code render the results. All linting logic lives in alint itself.

Features

• Diagnostics for your workspace's .alint.yml rules, on open and save, with live per-keystroke updates for per-file rules.
• Hover over a violation to see the rule id, severity, message, and a link to the rule's policy URL.
• Quick fixes ("Apply fix") for any violation whose rule declares a fixer — applied to the buffer as an editor edit you can undo.

Requirements

The extension needs the alint binary. It looks for it in this order:

1. the alint.path setting,
2. alint on your PATH,
3. a copy it previously downloaded,
4. otherwise it offers to download the matching release (opt-in) or to locate an existing binary.

You can also install alint yourself via Homebrew, cargo install alint, npm i -g @asamarts/alint, Docker, or the install script — see the project README.

Settings

Commands

• alint: Restart language server
• alint: Show effective rules (runs alint list)
• alint: Open .alint.yml

Versioning

The extension version tracks the alint release it ships against (0.10.x of the extension targets alint 0.10.x).