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holocron/plugins/lint/.apm/skills/vale-config/references/configuration-reference.md
Defame1297 5e232503c4 feat(kyberforge): execute plugin-to-apm marketplace conversion
Why:
ADR-0015 established that Microsoft APM (apm.yml + .apm/) should replace
this repo's hand-authored plugin.json/marketplace.json model, with those
files becoming compiled output of `apm pack` instead of files edited by
hand via the (now-retired) plugin-author/marketplace-author skills.
Issue #90 was the deferred execution of that decision, gated on #88
(apm tooling) and #89 (apm-native agent-author/skill-author routing).

Implementation notes:
- All six plugins (bin, core, git, gitea, kyberforge, lint) now carry
  apm.yml + .apm/{skills,agents,hooks} as their authoring source. Skills
  moved with a plain git mv (content-identical across targets). Agents
  were re-authored, not moved: per ADR-0016, .apm/agents/*.agent.md
  compiles verbatim to both Claude and Copilot, so plugin-scope agents
  now carry only name/description/model/source_keys -- no tools: field,
  no Claude-only knobs (isolation, maxTurns, effort, memory,
  permissionMode).
- Root apm.yml registers all 7 marketplace packages (6 local plus
  mattpocock-skills as a remote entry) under versioning: per_package,
  matching this repo's existing independent-plugin-versioning practice.
- .claude-plugin/marketplace.json and every plugin's plugin.json are now
  apm-pack-compiled output, verified against the prior hand-maintained
  content: same names/descriptions/versions/licenses/authors, only
  cosmetic serialization differences (JSON key order, owner email vs.
  url, Unicode escaping).
- plugin-author and marketplace-author are retired now that apm-based
  authoring fully replaces their job; kyberforge bumped 1.3.1 -> 1.4.0
  for that removal, and the root marketplace catalog bumped
  0.3.1 -> 0.3.2 to match, per the version-bump convention now
  documented in apm-workflow's reference docs instead of a dedicated
  script (apm has no native version-bump automation).
- Fixed hardcoded pre-.apm/ path assumptions across
  .pre-commit-config.yaml, .pre-commit-hooks.yaml,
  scripts/check-scope-walkup-sync.sh, scripts/sync-vale-styles.sh,
  scripts/check-vale-style-sync.sh, six plugins' root plugin.json
  (stale skills/hooks/agents pointer fields that check-manifests.sh
  validates), and several tests/*.bats and tests/*.sh fixtures --
  including a bats REPO_ROOT relative-path depth bug (10 files, one
  extra .apm/ directory level to walk up) and a vale probe-path
  isolation regression introduced mid-fix.
- Corrected empirically-wrong assumptions surfaced this session in
  apm-workflow/apm-install's own reference docs: `apm marketplace
  package add` does not accept local paths (only owner/repo remote
  shorthand -- local packages are registered by editing apm.yml's
  marketplace.packages[] directly); `apm compile` is a consumer-side
  AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md generator, not the plugin.json producer, and
  hard-fails on skill/agent-only packages without --clean; `apm plugin
  init <name>` nests a stray subdirectory when run with a positional
  name arg from inside a same-named directory; no native Copilot
  marketplace output profile exists; .mcp.json is merged into the
  compiled plugin.json content-aware and target-scoped, with no
  dependencies.mcp entry needed for simple passthrough; pipx is the
  correct pip fallback on externally-managed Python environments.
- Renamed agent-author's copilot.agent.md template asset to
  copilot.agent.md.template so apm compile's recursive *.agent.md glob
  stops misparsing the placeholder template as a real agent primitive.

Impact:
plugin.json and marketplace.json are compiled artifacts from here on --
editing them by hand is no longer the workflow; edit apm.yml/.apm/ and
run apm pack. CONTEXT.md's Plugin/Plugin marketplace glossary entries
reflect this. ADR-0001 is marked superseded, ADR-0006 moot, and
ADR-0010 updated for the new .apm/agents/ path (project/user scope
unaffected, per ADR-0016). Full local verification: claude plugin
validate --strict on all 6 plugins, apm audit --ci, apm marketplace
check, check-manifests.sh, and the full test suite (165/165 bats,
13/13 shell scripts) all pass clean.

Fixes: #90
Refs: #88, #89
ADR: 0015
ADR: 0016

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ub96PyaSRD9BHPktotj1pC
2026-08-12 18:21:24 +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").