diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index de66db5..4193fb8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -179,6 +179,10 @@ Use `ansible-lint` to verify good practices relevant to Ansible.
 task lint-ansible
 ```
 
+Note that this task depends on `lint-yml`, which means that linting YML will
+happen before linting the Ansible code base. Linting the Ansible code base will
+only be triggered when linting all YML documents in the repository has been successful.
+
 ## YAML code formatting
 
 Navigate to the root folder of the local copy of this git repository.
diff --git a/Taskfile.yml b/Taskfile.yml
index a9a8aec..1f15e45 100644
--- a/Taskfile.yml
+++ b/Taskfile.yml
@@ -6,4 +6,5 @@ tasks:
   lint-yml:
     cmds: [yamllint .]
   lint-ansible:
+    deps: [lint-yml]
     cmds: [LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 ansible-lint .]