The specification https://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html refers to some tags defined in http://yaml.org/type/ In 2.4. Tags there are links and examples for tags: https://yaml.org/type/binary.html https://yaml.org/type/omap.html https://yaml.org/type/set.html In 10.4 The tag repository is intentionally left out of the scope of this specification. This allows it to evolve to better support YAML applications. In https://github.com/yaml/yaml/wiki/YAML-1.2-Changelog there is a link in section other: TODO Include missing things from https://eemeli.org/yaml/#version-differences