i hope this is the right channel to ask questions about deps.edn and the clojure cli tools. i was wondering whether deps.edn can be spec'ed so that if one makes a mistake (e.g., putting a string literal where a symbol is expected), the cli tools can give some kind of feedback on the said mistake as spec errors. has the core team considered this?

There are specs in the tools.deps repo

It’s not currently checked as we were trying to support older Clojure versions although we could probably bump that req now