Vale styles

Two skills ship their rules as Vale styles, each inside its own folder under vale/. A consumer pins this repository by sha and points Vale at the checkout root, so a skill and its lint move together.

Rule	Skill	What it reports
skills.working-text.vale.UnitLength	/working-text	a paragraph or list item over 70 words
skills.natural-writing.vale.AIVocabulary, skills.natural-writing.vale.PlainWords	/natural-writing, derived from the upstream /unslop skill's text	unslop rules 7 and 8 (AI vocabulary, fancy ways to say "is"); rules 23 and 31 (filler phrases, plain words)
skills.natural-writing.vale.Vocabulary, Significance, Formula, TrailingParticiple	/natural-writing	the lists of references/words-to-avoid.md: vocabulary and copula avoidance, inflated significance, formula endings with weasel attributions and promotional words, sentence-final participles

One owner per token: no word or phrase is listed by two rules, so a word-level hit is reported once. A phrase rule can still overlap a word rule (pivotal role in Significance, pivotal in Unslop), and then both report, which is right: two different tells.

tests/repo/vale-styles.test.ts pins three things: the exact-token ownership, every token's presence in the skill text it comes from (the two unslop-derived rules excepted, since that text lives upstream), and that no other .yml sits under skills/, since Vale would read it as a rule.

Wiring a consumer

Check this repository out at a pinned sha, then in .vale.ini:

StylesPath = .skills
MinAlertLevel = error

[*.md]
BasedOnStyles = skills

Vale reads the *.yml files under the named folder and ignores everything else there. A page that quotes the tells as examples (a style guide, this repository's own skill pages) is not a page to lint with them.

Verifying a change

{ printf 'A robust plan is the focal point, ensuring we delve into it. In order to ship, not just this one.\n\n'; printf 'w%s ' $(seq 71); echo; } > control.md
vale --config <ini pointing at the checkout root> --output line control.md

Each of the seven rules fires exactly once on its planted token:

control.md:1:3:skills.natural-writing.vale.Vocabulary:'robust' is an AI tell
control.md:1:22:skills.natural-writing.vale.Significance:'focal point' claims significance
control.md:1:33:skills.natural-writing.vale.TrailingParticiple:', ensuring' is trailing analysis
control.md:1:47:skills.natural-writing.vale.AIVocabulary:'delve' is an AI tell (unslop rules 7 and 8)
control.md:1:62:skills.natural-writing.vale.PlainWords:Write 'to' for 'In order to' (unslop rules 23 and 31)
control.md:1:80:skills.natural-writing.vale.Formula:'not just' is a formula
control.md:3:1:skills.working-text.vale.UnitLength:71 words in one paragraph or list item; the cap is 70