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Explore Vale CMSA command-line tool that brings code-like linting to your writing. Enforce a consistent editorial style across every doc, in any format—entirely offline.
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Sources: GitHub, Docker Hub, PyPI, conda-forge, Homebrew, Chocolatey, winstall, Snapcraft, and Repology · 59 contributors · updated 2026-07-24
Linting built for the way you write
The precision of a code linter, applied to prose—so quality and consistency stop being a manual review step.
Vale runs entirely offline. Your content is never sent to a remote server for processing or training.
Understands Markdown, AsciiDoc, reStructuredText, HTML, and source code—linting prose while ignoring syntax.
Ready-made implementations of Microsoft, Google, and other popular style guides, plus community packages.
Write your own rules in YAML—no plugins to compile. Match your brand voice and share rules across a team.
Built in Go with no runtime dependencies. Drop it into any editor, CI pipeline, or pre-commit hook.
One tool for macOS, Windows, and Linux—MIT-licensed, open source, and actively maintained.
More than just a command-line interface.
Vale integrates with many popular apps, browsers, and platforms—including VS Code, Google Chrome, GitHub Actions, and more.
Teams running Vale
Every entry links to a public .vale.ini, style package, or write-up.
50 teams shown
Resources and docs for projects on the Aiven platform.
Data & observabilityThe EKS User Guide walks contributors through installing Vale for live style feedback.
Cloud & infrastructureVale as a cornerstone of an agile documentation workflow.
Community & servicesDocumentation for the cloudflared Kubernetes operator and beyond.
Open sourceLinting the official CloudQuery documentation.
Data & observabilityStyle enforcement for CockroachDB user documentation.
Data & observabilityTools for developing documentation websites.
EnterpriseHelping engineers become better writers.
EnterpriseD2iQ product documentation and docs website code.
Cloud & infrastructurePublishes datadog-vale and shifted docs quality left with it.
Data & observabilityEnforces style standards across the Docker product docs.
Developer toolsShips an Elastic style guide implemented as Vale rules.
Data & observabilityPart of the Fedora docs contributor toolchain.
Open sourceRecommends Vale for linting docs and improving writing quality.
Developer toolsUsed to lint the CodeQL documentation.
Developer toolsA required check in GitLab's documentation testing pipeline.
Developer toolsPowers the prose linting rules in the Grafana Writers' Toolkit.
Data & observabilityThe missing package manager for macOS (and Linux).
Open sourceAutomating technical documentation at a global banking platform.
EnterpriseAuditing and testing framework documentation.
Developer toolsSource for docs.konghq.com.
Developer toolsStyle enforcement for Linode product documentation.
Cloud & infrastructureUser documentation for the Mautic project.
Open sourceProse linting for the open-source search engine's docs.
Data & observabilityActive .vale.ini in the Spring Cloud Azure documentation.
Cloud & infrastructureRuns Vale as a built-in CI check and reports the results on pull requests.
Developer toolsRuns Vale in GitLab CI on every merge request, with a custom HPC style and vocabulary.
Community & servicesAll NeMo Agent Toolkit documentation is checked with Vale before it merges.
Developer toolsPipelines as Code, the Tekton-based CI project.
Cloud & infrastructureDocumentation for TiDB, TiKV, and PD.
Data & observabilityOfficial Platform.sh documentation linting.
Cloud & infrastructureDocuments Vale and prose linting in the public company handbook.
Data & observabilityThe source for docs published on docs.chef.io.
Developer toolsDocumented setup guide for Qt contributors.
Open sourceCustom style for the Rackspace Expert Insights technical blog.
Cloud & infrastructureMaintains "Vale at Red Hat", a public style package and onboarding guide.
Open sourcePublishes a guide for setting up Vale in Neovim via NvChad.
Open sourceStyle checks for the SAP Cloud SDK documentation.
EnterpriseAPI docs and tutorials for ImageSharp and related projects.
Open sourceMaintains spectro-vale-pkg and uses Vale in docs and beyond.
Cloud & infrastructureLints Backstage, the open platform for developer portals.
Developer toolsDocumentation for the Stoplight API platform.
Developer toolsLinting docs in CI to increase quality and consistency.
Developer toolsProcessor SDK docs build on the Red Hat style package with a custom PSDK vocabulary.
EnterpriseStyle enforcement for Timescale product documentation.
Data & observabilityTrussWorks' public software engineering playbook.
Community & servicesThe official Umbraco documentation.
Open sourceThe VSHN Application Catalog documentation.
Cloud & infrastructureLints the official webpack documentation site.
Open sourceMain website for the Write the Docs community.
Community & servicesBooks, talks, and write-ups
The Pragmatic Bookshelf · 2026
Automate Your Style Guides and Lint Prose Like You Lint Code
by Brian P. Hogan
Everything Open · 2025
arXiv · 2026
ammil industries · 2025
CNCF · 2022
Smashing Magazine · 2021
Buildkite · 2020
Grants, awards, and sponsors
Google Open Source
Peer Bonus award, 2023.
FLOSS.fund
Second tranche, alongside FFmpeg, Zig, Wireshark, and Blender.
Appwrite OSS Fund
Alongside Algolia, MongoDB, Fastly, and DigitalOcean.
Open Collective
$1,450 a year. Every expense is public.
GitHub Sponsors
Recurring sponsorship, billed by GitHub.
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hosts docs.vale.sh
hosts Vale Studio