# Vale Prose Linter for Technical Documentation

> Vale is an open-source, markup-aware prose linter that enforces editorial style guides on technical documentation. This skill enables agents to run Vale against Markdown, AsciiDoc, reStructuredText, and HTML to catch style, grammar, and terminology issues.

- Skill: `agentskillexchange/vale-prose-linter-for-technical-documentation` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add agentskillexchange/vale-prose-linter-for-technical-documentation`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/agentskillexchange/vale-prose-linter-for-technical-documentation/raw
- Safety review: pending (external: skill-scanner PASS, skillspector PASS)
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Web & Frontend
- Author: agentskillexchange (https://skillmd.com/u/agentskillexchange)
- Updated: 2026-09-08
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/agentskillexchange/vale-prose-linter-for-technical-documentation

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# Vale Prose Linter for Technical Documentation

Vale is an open-source, markup-aware prose linter that enforces editorial style guides on technical documentation. This skill enables agents to run Vale against Markdown, AsciiDoc, reStructuredText, and HTML to catch style, grammar, and terminology issues.

## Installation

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- [x] **Easy-to-install**, stand-alone binaries: Unlike other tools, Vale doesn't require you to install and configure a particular programming language and its related tooling (such as Python/pip or Node.js/npm).
- **NOTE**: While all of the options listed below are open-source (CLI-based) linters for prose, their implementations and features vary significantly. And so, the "best" option will depends on your specific needs and p...
- | proselint | No | style | No | Python | BSD 3-Clause |

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- # Vale: Your style, our editor [![Build status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/snk0oo6ih1nwuf6r?svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/jdkato/vale) [![GitHub All Releases](https://img.shields.io/githu...
- The exact definition of "Supports Markup" varies by tool but, in general, it means that the format is understood at a higher level than a regular plain-text file (for example, features like excluding code blocks from...

- Source: https://github.com/vale-cli/vale
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vale-cli/vale/HEAD/README.md

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/vale-prose-linter-technical-docs/)