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The standard library for Vale: general-purpose rules you extend to build your own style.

vale-cli/Std 2 stars 398 downloads v0.2.0 · Sep 8, 2026 latest release style Vale ≥ 3.20.0

Getting started

Add it to your .vale.ini, then run vale sync.

Packages = Std

[*.md]
BasedOnStyles = Vale, Std

The name installs the latest release each time vale sync runs. To stay on v0.2.0, the release this page describes, give its URL instead:

Packages = https://github.com/vale-cli/Std/releases/download/v0.2.0/Std.zip

Rules 14

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  • Std.Abbreviations.Acronyms suggestion conditional

    Spell out '%s' on first use.

  • Std.Abbreviations.Latin suggestion substitution

    Use '%s' instead of '%s'.

  • Std.DateTime.DateFormat suggestion existence

    Ambiguous date format: '%s'.

  • Std.DateTime.TimeFormat suggestion existence

    Inconsistent time format: '%s'.

  • Std.Grammar.Contractions suggestion substitution

    Use '%s' instead of '%s'.

  • Std.Grammar.PassiveVoice suggestion existence

    '%s' looks like passive voice.

  • Std.Punctuation.Ellipses suggestion existence

    Ellipsis.

  • Std.Punctuation.OxfordComma suggestion existence scope: sentence

    Missing serial comma before '%s'.

  • Std.Punctuation.Spacing suggestion existence

    '%s' should have one space.

  • Std.Readability.SentenceLength suggestion occurrence scope: sentence

    Long sentence: %d words.

  • Std.Usage.FirstPersonPlural suggestion existence

    First-person plural: '%s'.

  • Std.Usage.FirstPersonSingular suggestion existence

    First-person singular: '%s'.

  • Std.Usage.GenderedPronouns suggestion existence

    '%s' is not a gender-neutral pronoun.

  • Std.Usage.GenderedTerms suggestion substitution

    Consider '%s' instead of '%s'.