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holocron/plugins/lint/skills/vale-config/references/configuration-reference.md
Defame1297 38f1ba4e03 fix(kyberforge): bridge apm content to Claude Code's flat plugin discovery
Claude Code's (and Copilot's) native plugin installer has zero awareness of
.apm/ nesting -- it convention-scans only flat skills/, agents/, commands/,
hooks.json at each plugin's root. Confirmed via strings on the installed
claude binary and live installs of git@holocron/gitea@holocron/kyberforge@
holocron, all reporting Skills(0) Agents(0) Hooks(0) post ADR-0015's apm
conversion. Root cause (apm_cli/core/plugin_manifest.py): apm's plugin.json
compiler deliberately strips skills/agents/commands keys, assuming the host
already auto-discovers those convention directories -- it has no model of
.apm/ being host-visible at all. Separately, apm's own bundle exporter
(apm_cli/bundle/plugin_exporter.py, behind `apm pack --format plugin`)
implements the correct .apm/ -> flat mapping, but only ever targeted
build/<name>-<version>/, a path nothing in marketplace.json's source: points
at.

scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh wraps that bundle exporter and copies its
agents/, skills/, commands/, instructions/, extensions/, and merged
hooks.json back into each plugin's own root as a second tracked
compiled-output category -- same governance status as
.claude-plugin/plugin.json: generated from .apm/, never hand-edited. tests/
subdirectories are excluded from the mirror (dev fixtures, not host-visible
runtime content; several hardcode a relative repo-root walk-up sized for the
.apm/-nested depth, which breaks when duplicated one level shallower).
Applied for real across all 6 plugins and verified two ways: `claude plugin
validate --strict` passes on every real plugin directory, and a live
`claude --plugin-dir <path> -p "list skills/agents"` behavioral test
confirms content is now actually discovered.

Also, from the same issue #90 review round:
- scripts/check-manifests.sh pointed at each plugin's root-level plugin.json
  (checking skills/hooks/mcpServers/agents pointer fields) -- that file was a
  stale near-duplicate of .claude-plugin/plugin.json nothing else read or
  wrote, now deleted across all 6 plugins. check-manifests.sh is rewritten to
  validate .claude-plugin/plugin.json instead, and drops the pointer-field
  checks entirely (nothing to check -- those fields are correctly absent by
  design). Content-presence drift is now check-plugin-content-sync's job, a
  new pre-push hook wired in .pre-commit-config.yaml.

docs/adr/0017 records the root cause and decision in full, including two
rejected alternatives (patching plugin.json's path fields directly -- apm's
compiler strips them on every run; pointing marketplace.json at apm pack's
build/ output -- a version-suffixed non-source directory nothing can install
from without an extra build step). ADR-0015 and CONTEXT.md are updated to
point at it.

Refs: #90
2026-08-13 16:59:03 +00:00

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Core Settings

Key Type Purpose
StylesPath string Path to all Vale-related resources (styles, dictionaries, vocab).
Packages string[] Packages to download and install via vale sync.
Vocab string[] Vocabularies to load.
MinAlertLevel enum Minimum severity to report: suggestion, warning, or error.
IgnoredScopes enum Inline-level HTML tags to ignore.
SkippedScopes enum Block-level HTML tags to ignore entirely.

Format Associations

Map an unrecognized extension onto a supported one so Vale lints it with the right parser — an extension-level substitution only, it does not add new file-type support:

[formats]
mdx = md

Vocabularies

Reference a named vocabulary (a folder of accept/reject word lists under StylesPath) via Vocab, then apply styles per glob:

StylesPath = styles

Vocab = Blog

[*]
BasedOnStyles = Vale, MyStyle

Local Overrides

A project can layer a local .vale.ini that overrides StylesPath, adds packages, and changes BasedOnStyles for a subset of files — local settings merge with or override the global ones:

StylesPath = localpath

Packages = write-good

[*.md]
BasedOnStyles = write-good

Rule Header Fields

Individual rule YAML files (under a style's directory) support these header fields:

Field Required Default Purpose
extends yes — Check this rule extends (e.g. existence).
message yes — Message shown when triggered; supports %s formatting per check type.
level no suggestion Severity: suggestion, warning, or error.
scope no text Scope the rule applies to (e.g. heading).
link no — URL with more info about the rule.
limit no — Max number of triggers per file.
vocab no true Set false to disable active vocabularies for this rule.

Checks

The underlying functions a rule's extends field can reference: existence, substitution, occurrence, repetition, consistency, conditional, capitalization, metric, spelling, sequence, script.

Built-in Style

Vale ships with a default Vale style containing four rules, usable without vale sync:

  • Vale.Spelling — spell-checks against Hunspell-compatible dictionaries in <StylesPath>/config/dictionaries.
  • Vale.Terms — enforces the project's accepted vocabulary terms.
  • Vale.Avoid — enforces the project's rejected vocabulary terms.
  • Vale.Repetition — flags repeated words (e.g. "the the").