btford/write-good

Vale is a markup-aware prose linter and command-line interface tool designed to enforce editorial style guides and grammar rules across various document formats. It functions as a YAML-based style guide engine that analyzes text for consistency in tone, spelling, and terminology while ignoring non-prose elements like code blocks. The project distinguishes itself through a flexible extensibility model that allows users to define custom linting rules using YAML configurations, regular expressions, and external scripts for complex validation logic. It supports a wide array of documentation forma

Alex is an inclusive language linter and content auditor designed to detect and flag insensitive, inconsiderate, or gendered phrasing. It serves as a profanity detection tool that identifies offensive words based on configurable certainty ratings to ensure professional and neutral content. The tool distinguishes itself through diff-aware analysis, allowing it to function as a continuous integration validator. By analyzing pull request deltas, it can flag new insensitive phrasing while ignoring existing legacy issues to prevent old warnings from blocking new merges. The project supports multi

sd is a command line text manipulation utility designed for searching and replacing text patterns across multiple files. It functions as a regex-based find and replace tool that allows for in-place file editing directly from the terminal. The project supports both regular expression replacements, including the use of capture groups for complex transformations, and fixed string replacement for literal text substitutions. It specifically handles multi-line text replacement by processing file contents as single blocks to match patterns that span across newline characters. The tool provides capa

Harper is a local English linter and grammar checker designed as an IDE writing assistant. It operates as a language server that provides real-time spelling and grammar analysis for markdown and code comments, processing all linguistic data on the local device to ensure privacy and eliminate cloud dependencies. The tool is specialized for technical documentation, featuring the ability to identify and ignore text within code fences and inline blocks to prevent false positives. It allows for personalized configuration through custom dictionaries and the use of suppression comments to exclude sp