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Run Vale on docs/developer-guide using the repo's CI workflow, including style sync, JSON report generation, and HTML report conversion.

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Developer Guide Vale

Use this skill when you need to run, debug, or fix Vale alerts in docs/developer-guide. Follow the same steps as .github/workflows/developer-guide-docs.yml so local results match CI.

Workflow

Run from the repository root.

  1. Use Vale 3.13.0 if you need to install the tool locally.
  2. Sync the shared style packages against the developer guide config.
  3. Run Vale on docs/developer-guide with JSON output.
  4. Convert the JSON report to HTML.
  5. Inspect the report, then fix the marked .adoc content.

CI-Matching Commands

set -euo pipefail
VALE_VERSION="3.13.0"
VALE_ARCHIVE="vale_${VALE_VERSION}_Linux_64-bit.tar.gz"
curl -fsSL -o "$VALE_ARCHIVE" "https://github.com/errata-ai/vale/releases/download/v${VALE_VERSION}/${VALE_ARCHIVE}"
tar -xzf "$VALE_ARCHIVE"
sudo mv vale /usr/local/bin/vale
rm -f "$VALE_ARCHIVE"

vale sync --config docs/developer-guide/.vale.ini

REPORT_DIR="build/developer-guide/reports"
REPORT_FILE="${REPORT_DIR}/vale-report.json"
HTML_REPORT="${REPORT_DIR}/vale-report.html"
mkdir -p "$REPORT_DIR"
set +e
vale --config docs/developer-guide/.vale.ini --output=JSON docs/developer-guide > "$REPORT_FILE"
STATUS=$?
set -e
python3 scripts/developer-guide/vale_report_to_html.py --input "$REPORT_FILE" --output "$HTML_REPORT"

What To Check

  • build/developer-guide/reports/vale-report.json
  • build/developer-guide/reports/vale-report.html
  • The file, line, column, rule, and message in each alert

Fix Strategy

  • Prefer wording changes in the developer guide over suppressing rules.
  • Keep changes local to the flagged text unless the style rule itself needs a targeted exception.
  • If Vale exits non-zero, treat that as "alerts were found" and inspect the generated report rather than stopping at the first failure.