Styles & configurations

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27 packages

Google

Style v0.7.1

A Vale-compatible implementation of the Google Developer Documentation Style Guide.

36 rules 95 stars 1.8M downloads

vale-cli/Google
write-good

Style v0.4.1

Naive linter for English prose for developers who can't write good.

8 rules 49 stars 1.3M downloads

vale-cli/write-good
Microsoft

Style v0.15.1

A Vale-compatible implementation of the Microsoft Writing Style Guide.

47 rules 112 stars 922.9K downloads

vale-cli/Microsoft
proselint

Style v0.3.4

proselint places the world’s greatest writers and editors by your side.

34 rules 45 stars 760.7K downloads

vale-cli/proselint
alex

Style v0.2.3

Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing.

11 rules 25 stars 373.7K downloads

vale-cli/alex
RedHat

Style Vale ≥ 2.20.0 v680

A Vale-compatible implementation of the Red Hat Supplementary Style Guide.

37 rules 56 stars 349K downloads

redhat-documentation.github.io
Readability

Style Vale ≥ 2.13.0 v0.2.0

Readability scores: Automated Readability Index, Coleman-Liau, Flesch-Kincaid, Flesch reading ease, Gunning fog, LIX, and SMOG, with a rule that names the polysyllables behind them.

8 rules 30 stars 246.3K downloads

vale-cli/readability
AsciiDoc

Style v680

A Vale-compatible implementation of select AsciiDoc syntax rules.

14 rules 56 stars 186.1K downloads

redhat-documentation.github.io
MDX

Config v0.3.0

Adds support for MDX comments and other non-standard markup.

3 stars 151K downloads

vale-cli/MDX
Hugo

Config v0.4.0

Adds support for Hugo shortcodes and other non-standard markup.

7 stars 141.6K downloads

vale-cli/Hugo
ai-tells

Style v1.37.0

Flags the fingerprints of AI-written prose, with rule messages that name the fix rather than only the phrase.

134 rules 1 assets 119 stars 140.3K downloads

tbhb/vale-ai-tells
Joblint

Style v0.4.1

Test tech job posts for issues with sexism, culture, expectations, and recruiter fails.

17 rules 14 stars 138.6K downloads

vale-cli/Joblint
OpenShiftAsciiDoc

Style v680

A Vale-compatible implementation of select AsciiDoc guidance from the OpenShift docs contributor guidelines.

16 rules 56 stars 109.2K downloads

redhat-documentation.github.io
AsciiDocDITA

Style v1.1.15

A Vale-compatible implementation of select DITA transformation guidelines for transforming existing AsciiDoc files into a DITA-compatible format.

44 rules 7 stars 79.9K downloads

jhradilek/asciidoctor-dita-vale
Elastic

Style v1.7.2

Elastic Docs' style guide rules for the Vale linter.

32 rules 4 assets 11 stars 46.7K downloads

elastic/vale-rules
Harper

StyleGrammar v0.1.0

A Vale-compatible implementation of the Harper grammar checker.

547 rules 1 assets 1 stars 16K downloads

vale-cli/Harper
Std

Style Vale ≥ 3.20.0 v0.2.0

The standard library for Vale: general-purpose rules you extend to build your own style.

14 rules 3 stars 8.8K downloads

vale-cli/Std
Voices

StyleVoice Vale ≥ 3.23.0 v0.2.0

Writing voices as Vale rules: a shared core against hedging, puffery, weasel words, and throat clearing, and voices such as Direct, Simple, and Human that set how the prose should sound.

34 rules 3 assets 3 stars 5.2K downloads

jdkato/voices
AiTells

Style v1.0.0

Flags the tells of AI-written prose: em-dash habits, epigrams, abstract-noun triads, clichés, and 13 more benchmarked rules.

17 rules 1 stars 4.7K downloads

krishnasunkam/vale-ai-tells
neighbor

StyleInclusive language v2.2.0

Accessibility and inclusive language rules for Vale. Flags exclusionary language, ableist terms, metaphors, and complex idioms.

13 rules 1 stars 4.2K downloads

a11yfred/neighbor
Commits

Style Vale ≥ 3.21.0 v0.2.0

Commit messages: nine conventions and the rule sets of commitlint, gitlint, committed, conform, and commitizen, read through a View.

97 rules 7 assets 0 stars 1.8K downloads

jdkato/commits
Diataxis

Style Vale ≥ 3.23.0 v0.1.0

The four kinds of documentation in Diátaxis, each checked against its job: tutorials that walk, how-to guides that reach a goal, reference that describes, explanation that answers why.

20 rules 0 stars 1.3K downloads

jdkato/diataxis
A11y

Style Vale ≥ 3.23.0 v0.1.0

Accessible writing: alt text, link text, heading structure, table headers, instructions that rely on color or position, a reading grade per paragraph, and an inclusive-language word list, from the parts of WCAG 2.2 that live in the text.

19 rules 0 stars 1.2K downloads

jdkato/a11y
Salesforce

Style v0.1.0

A Vale-compatible implementation of the Salesforce Writing Style Guide.

28 rules 1 stars 522 downloads

sfadriaan/Salesforce
Fiction

Style Vale ≥ 3.22.0 v0.1.0

Fiction: filter words, told emotions, stock phrases, and dialogue punctuation, with the rules of Elmore Leonard, Chuck Palahniuk, and Strunk's 1918 Elements of Style.

24 rules 0 stars 456 downloads

jdkato/fiction
Journals

Style Vale ≥ 3.22.0 v0.1.0

Scientific manuscripts: a core of conventions for units, statistics, figures, and citations, the IMRaD structure, the Nature and PLOS ONE author guidelines, and the CONSORT, STROBE, and PRISMA checklists.

121 rules 2 assets 1 stars 250 downloads

jdkato/journals
Comments

Style Vale ≥ 3.23.0 v0.1.0

The comments in code: Go doc comments, Javadoc, and KDoc conventions, plus owned TODOs and no commented-out code in any language Vale extracts comments from.

14 rules 0 stars 139 downloads

jdkato/comments