.vale.ini

StylesPath = ".github/styles"
MinAlertLevel = suggestion

Packages = Microsoft, RedHat, https://github.com/nolte/vale-style/releases/download/v0.1.17/nolte-styles.zip

IgnoredScopes = code,tt, em

Vocab = taskfiles

[*.md]
BasedOnStyles = Vale, Microsoft
# Disable the Microsoft number-range rules: in this repo "ranges" appear in
# YAML frontmatter dates (`last_updated: 2026-05-20`) and tool/library
# versions (`mkdocs==1.6.1`, `v1.1.18`), not in narrative prose.
Microsoft.Ranges = NO
Microsoft.RangeFormat = NO

# The German documentation track lives under docs/de/. The Microsoft style is
# English-only; running it against German prose produces noise without value.
# Vale.Spelling is English-only too, so we disable it for German prose and
# rely on the rendered output for review instead.
[docs/de/**/*.md]
BasedOnStyles = Vale
Vale.Spelling = NO
Vale.Terms = NO
Microsoft.Adverbs = NO
Microsoft.Avoid = NO
Microsoft.ComplexWords = NO
Microsoft.Contractions = NO
Microsoft.Dashes = NO
Microsoft.GeneralURL = NO
Microsoft.Headings = NO
Microsoft.Passive = NO
Microsoft.Ranges = NO
Microsoft.RangeFormat = NO
Microsoft.Semicolon = NO
Microsoft.Vocab = NO
Microsoft.Accessibility = NO
Microsoft.Wordiness = NO
Microsoft.Negative = NO
Microsoft.We = NO
Microsoft.Foreign = NO

[CLAUDE.md]
BasedOnStyles =