Styles & configurations

Google

Style v0.7.1

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

36 rules 94 stars 1.8M downloads

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

Microsoft

Style v0.15.1

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

47 rules 112 stars 900K downloads

proselint

Style v0.3.4

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

34 rules 45 stars 743.9K downloads

alex

Style v0.2.3

Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing.

11 rules 25 stars 363.8K downloads

RedHat

Style Vale ≥ 2.20.0 v680

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

37 rules 56 stars 345.9K downloads

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 241.8K downloads

AsciiDoc

Style v680

A Vale-compatible implementation of select AsciiDoc syntax rules.

14 rules 56 stars 184.3K downloads

MDX

Config v0.3.0

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

3 stars 145.4K downloads

Hugo

Config v0.4.0

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

7 stars 139.1K downloads

Joblint

Style v0.4.1

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

17 rules 14 stars 136.4K downloads

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 118 stars 123.4K downloads

OpenShiftAsciiDoc

Style v680

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

16 rules 56 stars 108.4K downloads

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 78.5K downloads

Elastic

Style v1.7.2

Elastic Docs' style guide rules for the Vale linter.

32 rules 4 assets 11 stars 45.6K downloads

Harper

StyleGrammar v0.1.0

A Vale-compatible implementation of the Harper grammar checker.

547 rules 1 assets 1 stars 14.3K downloads

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 2 stars 7.1K downloads

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 4.4K downloads

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 3.9K downloads

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 3.3K downloads

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 1.5K downloads

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 898 downloads

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 885 downloads

Salesforce

Style v0.1.0

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

28 rules 1 stars 494 downloads

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 372 downloads

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 0 stars 213 downloads

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 121 downloads