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
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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").