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A linting tool that helps you to write better Chef Infra cookbooks and InSpec profiles by detecting and automatically correcting style, syntax, and logic mistakes in your code.

Stars: 112
Forks: 69
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 110
Avg merge: 5d 19h
Merged PRs (30d): 13

Dominant language: Ruby
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 15, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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110 open issues indexed

NodeAttributeRegexpMatch - Avoid using =~ directly on node attributes that can be nil to avoid hard exceptions in CC19 Open

New Cop Proposal Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 54/100

chef/cookstyle#1075 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 3, 2026
Warn against Chef::Util::FileEdit usage Open

New Cop Proposal Triage: Feature Request Type: Deprecation

chef/cookstyle#986 · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 20, 2024
New Cop generators Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Design Proposal

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/cookstyle#976 · Opened Jul 30, 2024
Add optional Guard development workflow Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

chef/cookstyle#975 · Opened Jul 30, 2024
Broken StyleGuide links in cookstyle.yml Open

Aspect: Documentation Status: Good First Issue Type: Bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 52/100

chef/cookstyle#974 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 23, 2024
Cookstyle configuration "streams" Open

Aspect: Stability Triage: Feature Request Type: Design Proposal Type: Enhancement

chef/cookstyle#967 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 14, 2023
RuboCop URL in README uses http://rubocop.org Open

Aspect: Documentation Status: Good First Issue Triage: Confirmed Type: Bug

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/cookstyle#963 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 27, 2023
Chef/Correctness/LazyEvalNodeAttributeDefaults does not detect nested attributes Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/cookstyle#958 · Opened Feb 13, 2023
Error: unrecognized cop or department {{cop}} found in {{global vanilla rubocop config}} Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/cookstyle#956 · Opened Sep 5, 2022
Detect the usage of chef-sugar Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

chef/cookstyle#932 · Opened Jan 18, 2022
Detect single line do/end style blocks Open

New Cop Proposal Status: Waiting on Contributor Triage: Feature Request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/cookstyle#931 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 18, 2022
Resource property descriptions shouldn't end with a space Open

New Cop Proposal Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

chef/cookstyle#904 · Opened Sep 4, 2021
Alert on more uses of mixlib::shellout Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/cookstyle#903 · Opened Sep 4, 2021
Detect using run_action on the resource block to force compile_time Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/cookstyle#899 · Opened Sep 2, 2021
File verifier used without `%{path}` Open

New Cop Proposal Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

chef/cookstyle#896 · Opened Sep 1, 2021
Comment style fixer incorrectly firing on MLSA warning Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/cookstyle#864 · Opened Jun 19, 2021
When updating DSL injection delete the line if it would be a dupe Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

chef/cookstyle#863 · Opened Jun 19, 2021
Chef/Deprecations cop to detect use of Built-in Cookbooks Open

New Cop Proposal Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/cookstyle#860 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 10, 2021
Support cops on policyfiles in addition to cookbooks. Open

New Cop Proposal Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

chef/cookstyle#857 · 1 comment · Opened May 24, 2021
Detect incorrect usage of node['os'] Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/cookstyle#842 · Opened Apr 14, 2021
Inconsistent Warning Detection of 'Operator == Used in Void Context' Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/cookstyle#835 · Opened Feb 18, 2021
Chef/Modernize/WindowsRegistryUAC reporting on a registry value that the windows_uac does not support Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/cookstyle#827 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 5, 2021
Detect an array with a single item used to create a resource Open

New Cop Proposal Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/cookstyle#795 · Opened Nov 6, 2020
Convert self.resource_name = :alert_manager to resource_name DSL Open

New Cop Proposal

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/cookstyle#786 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 4, 2020
ChefModernize/DefaultActionFromInitialize false positive Open

Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

chef/cookstyle#704 · Opened Jul 31, 2020
Use shell_out helpers instead of Open3.popen3 Open

New Cop Proposal Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

chef/cookstyle#677 · Opened Jul 10, 2020
Detect using powershell to unzip a file Open

New Cop Proposal Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

chef/cookstyle#675 · Opened Jul 10, 2020
Set build_essential to compile time if we have the legacy attribute Open

New Cop Proposal Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/cookstyle#672 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 10, 2020
Chef-16+ resource_name / provides updates (post-Chef-15 deprecation) Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/cookstyle#651 · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 7, 2020
Detect multiple uses of provides with the same name Open

New Cop Proposal Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/cookstyle#649 · Opened Jun 6, 2020
Ban setting node attributes to symbol values Open

New Cop Proposal Triage: Feature Request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/cookstyle#615 · Opened May 1, 2020
Setting @provides in a resource initialize method does nothing Open

New Cop Proposal Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

chef/cookstyle#594 · Opened Mar 26, 2020
HWRPs in libraries (or the ones that inherit from LWRPBase) that rely on automatic class based resource_name wiring Open

New Cop Proposal Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

chef/cookstyle#579 · Opened Mar 6, 2020
Detect templating out yum repository files Open

New Cop Proposal Triage: Feature Request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/cookstyle#565 · Opened Mar 5, 2020
Detect using ruby_block to run powershell_out Open

New Cop Proposal Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/cookstyle#562 · Opened Mar 5, 2020
Detect using powershell to stop a service Open

New Cop Proposal Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

chef/cookstyle#561 · Opened Mar 5, 2020
Detect setting hostname by shelling out to hostname or hostnamectl Open

New Cop Proposal Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/cookstyle#560 · Opened Mar 5, 2020
Detect execute commands that run bash Open

New Cop Proposal Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/cookstyle#559 · Opened Mar 5, 2020
Detect cookbooks that template /etc/sudoers.d/* Open

New Cop Proposal Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

chef/cookstyle#558 · Opened Mar 5, 2020
Detect identity_attr usage when we have attributes / properties Open

New Cop Proposal Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/cookstyle#557 · Opened Mar 3, 2020
Remove empty initializers in resources Open

New Cop Proposal Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/cookstyle#556 · Opened Mar 3, 2020
poise_archive depreciation: archive_file is not equivalent Open

Aspect: Documentation Type: Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/cookstyle#550 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 2, 2020
Use 'creates' in execute instead of File.exist? Open

New Cop Proposal

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

chef/cookstyle#544 · Opened Feb 26, 2020
cookstyle changes #{node['xxx']['yyy']['zzz']} to (node['xxx']['yyy']['zzz']).to_s then whines about that Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

chef/cookstyle#539 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 25, 2020
Detect shelling out to unzip to uncompress files Open

New Cop Proposal Triage: Confirmed

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/cookstyle#525 · Opened Feb 19, 2020
ChefStyle/UnnecessaryPlatformCaseStatement needs to autocorrect with single quotes Open

Bad Autocorrect Triage: Confirmed Type: Bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 42/100

chef/cookstyle#514 · Opened Jan 27, 2020
ChefStyle/CommentFormat needs to know when it's outside the header Open

Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/cookstyle#496 · Opened Jan 4, 2020
When removing legacy metadata we should remove the comments as well Open

Bad Autocorrect

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

chef/cookstyle#485 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 3, 2020
Node.set message is not helpful Open

Triage: Confirmed Type: Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/cookstyle#475 · Opened Dec 20, 2019
Add autocorrection to ChefDeprecations/LegacyYumCookbookRecipes Open

Status: Waiting on Contributor Triage: Needs Information

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/cookstyle#471 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 18, 2019

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