In section "Default options" the json is not entirely valid, the "," on line 5 must not be there:
{
"default_opts": {
"build_host": "kathleen",
"build_host_exec_prefix": "schroot -c chroot:lunar-amd64 --"
},
}
jq says:
jq: parse error: Expected another key-value pair at line 6, column 1