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But what is it? Is this like Grammarly? Maybe LanguageTool? I paged through most of the docs and I’m still not entirely sure what this does or why I might want to use it.

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Looks like grammarly but open source, with custom rules and easy to add to CI.

I currently use crate-ci/typos in my CI runs (it's great, humans often miss dumb typos), vale looks like typos but supercharged (but limited to markdown files?).

What's unclear about it? My impression from the window screenshot alone is you choose rule docs and a text doc, and it tells you what parts of the text doc violate parts of the rule docs . It could be used to help make sure writing (likely for some corporate or technical purpose) follows a set style guide. Organizations already often follow formal style guides in their writing, I don't know if they have their own similar tools to automatically check if their style is being adhered to.

So like Grammarly, but you bring your own rules.

It needs a better landing page

Definitely. Though they apparently weren't very happy with someone bringing it up: https://github.com/errata-ai/vale.sh/issues/46

The wording of that issue could come across as overly aggressive. The submitter should test it with a linter.

My understanding is that it is like LanguageTool, but where you can define your own rules using some YAML file (?).

Yeah not clear at all tbh

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