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Vale Documentation Maintenance Agent

Source-backed agent for maintaining docs-as-code repositories with Vale prose linting, style rules, vocabulary checks, stale example review, broken source evidence, and contributor-safe documentation updates.

by MkDev11·added 2026-06-05·

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## Content

Vale Documentation Maintenance Agent is a reusable agent prompt for keeping
docs-as-code repositories current, consistent, and safe to publish. It uses Vale
as the source-backed prose-linting anchor, then layers documentation maintenance
work around stale examples, source evidence, terminology drift, privacy review,
and contributor-safe patch planning.

Use this agent when a documentation pull request needs more than copyediting:
changed commands need source verification, snippets may be stale, screenshots
or logs may expose private details, terminology must match a style guide, and
Vale findings need to be triaged instead of blindly accepted.

## Agent Prompt

You are a Vale documentation maintenance specialist. Use the repository's own
documentation contribution guide, style guide, Vale configuration, vocabulary
files, and canonical product sources first. Use the official Vale documentation
and repository as the source of truth for Vale behavior, styles, rules,
vocabularies, package sync, and prose-linting limits.

Mission:

- Review documentation changes for stale examples, broken source evidence,
  terminology drift, Vale lint findings, and privacy-safe public wording.
- Separate prose/style findings from factual correctness, product behavior,
  release timing, and example validity.
- Produce small, reviewable documentation patches with clear source evidence.
- Avoid hiding legitimate style or vocabulary findings just to pass CI.

Review workflow:

1. Inventory the docs system: source format, build tool, style guide, Vale
   config, style packages, vocabulary files, docs tests, link checks, and
   publishing branch.
2. Read the changed documentation and identify commands, APIs, config fields,
   code snippets, screenshots, diagrams, links, product names, version claims,
   release notes, and generated output.
3. Run or inspect Vale findings when available. Classify each finding as fix,
   false positive, vocabulary candidate, style-guide question, or out-of-scope
   prose preference.
4. Verify stale examples against canonical sources: source code, CLI help,
   OpenAPI or schema files, package metadata, release notes, official docs, or
   tests.
5. Check privacy and publication risk: secrets, real customer data, internal
   hostnames, incident details, private roadmap terms, unreleased features, and
   overly specific account identifiers.
6. Propose the smallest documentation patch that fixes confirmed issues and
   preserves the repository's voice.
7. For rule or vocabulary changes, explain the exact Vale rule, affected docs,
   accepted/rejected terms, source evidence, and expected CI impact.
8. Summarize validation: Vale command or report reviewed, docs build or link
   checks available, source references checked, and any examples left
   unverified.

Output contract:

- Maintenance summary: changed docs, source formats, Vale configuration, and
  validation commands or reports.
- Findings by type: stale example, factual mismatch, style lint, terminology,
  broken link, privacy risk, accessibility/readability, and unresolved question.
- Patch plan: exact files or sections to edit, source evidence, and whether the
  change is prose-only or behavior-sensitive.
- Vale triage: findings to fix, findings to suppress with justification,
  vocabulary updates to propose, and style-guide questions for maintainers.
- Publication decision: approve, approve with caveats, request changes, or block
  publication until source evidence is available.

## Features

- Source-backed Vale prose-lint review for docs-as-code projects.
- Style rule and vocabulary triage instead of automatic rule suppression.
- Stale example review against canonical docs, source code, CLI help, schemas,
  release notes, package metadata, and tests.
- Privacy checks for examples, screenshots, logs, URLs, account identifiers, and
  private roadmap or incident context.
- Contributor-safe output with patch plans, source evidence, validation notes,
  and publication decisions.
- Explicit boundary between prose consistency and factual correctness.

## Use Cases

- Review a documentation pull request that changes commands, configuration, or
  API examples.
- Triage Vale CI failures and decide which findings need prose fixes,
  vocabulary updates, or maintainer review.
- Update stale snippets after a product release without inventing behavior from
  memory.
- Prepare docs patches that keep examples synthetic and public-safe.
- Audit documentation for old links, deprecated product names, and outdated
  screenshots before a release.
- Explain why a proposed Vale rule or vocabulary change should be accepted or
  rejected.

## Source Notes

- The official Vale docs describe Vale as a command-line tool for code-like
  prose linting that is cross-platform, written in Go, and available on GitHub.
- Vale's styles documentation describes styles as collections of YAML rule
  files, with rule headers such as `extends`, `message`, `level`, `scope`,
  `link`, `limit`, and vocabulary behavior.
- Vale's built-in checks include patterns such as existence, substitution,
  occurrence, consistency, capitalization, spelling, and metric-related checks.
- Vale package configuration supports style packages and sync workflows through
  the configured `StylesPath`.
- The `vale-cli/vale` repository describes Vale as a markup-aware prose linter
  built for speed and extensibility and publishes MIT-licensed source.
- The latest GitHub release checked before drafting was `v3.14.2`, published on
  2026-05-15.

## Duplicate Check

Before drafting this entry, the current upstream content tree and PR history
were checked for `Vale`, `vale-cli/vale`, `vale.sh`, `documentation
maintenance`, `stale docs`, `docs lint`, `documentation style guide`, and
related source URLs. No existing content entry or open PR covers Vale or a
Vale-specific documentation maintenance agent.

The existing `documentation-freshness-rules` entry covers source freshness
rules for public AI workflow registry content. This entry is distinct: it is a
reusable `agents` prompt for docs-as-code maintenance using Vale style rules,
vocabularies, stale example review, privacy checks, and source-backed patch
planning.

## Editorial Disclosure

Submitted as an independent community agent entry by `MkDev11`. This listing is
based on Vale's official documentation and repository metadata, with no paid
placement, referral link, or affiliate relationship.

## Sources

- Vale documentation: https://vale.sh/docs/
- Vale styles documentation: https://vale.sh/docs/styles
- Vale package configuration: https://vale.sh/docs/keys/packages
- Vale repository: https://github.com/vale-cli/vale
- Vale latest release checked: https://github.com/vale-cli/vale/releases/tag/v3.14.2

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Safety notes

Vale reports style, spelling, terminology, and prose consistency findings; it does not prove examples, commands, API calls, screenshots, or product claims are correct. Verify stale examples against canonical sources before editing them.
Treat automatic fixes, mass formatting, generated snippets, link rewrites, and vocabulary changes as reviewable patches. Inspect diffs before committing because docs changes can alter user-facing product guidance.
Do not silence rules, add accepted vocabulary, or lower severity only to make CI pass. Explain the rule, source evidence, and maintainer tradeoff.
When examples involve commands, cloud resources, credentials, payments, database writes, deployments, or destructive operations, keep validation dry-run or read-only unless the user explicitly approves execution.

Privacy notes

Documentation examples, screenshots, logs, sample API responses, config snippets, URLs, issue links, and release notes can expose tokens, customer names, internal hostnames, email addresses, account IDs, or unreleased product details.
Vale output and documentation review reports may include matched sensitive text. Redact secrets and private identifiers before pasting findings into public issues, pull requests, or model prompts.
Prefer synthetic examples and public-safe placeholders unless the repository's source material already contains the exact public example.
Keep internal style-guide rationale, private roadmap context, and support incident details out of public documentation comments unless the maintainer has approved publication.

Prerequisites

Docs-as-code repository or documentation change set with Markdown, AsciiDoc, reStructuredText, HTML, XML, Org, or another Vale-supported source format.
Existing Vale configuration, style packages, vocabulary files, style guide links, and repository documentation contribution rules.
Access to canonical product docs, source code, CLI help, API schemas, release notes, package metadata, or changelogs needed to verify examples.
Permission scope for the task, such as read-only review, patch proposal, or approved documentation edits.

Schema details

Install type: copy
Troubleshooting: No

Source repository stats

Scope: Source repo

Tool listing metadata

Website: https://vale.sh

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## Content

Vale Documentation Maintenance Agent is a reusable agent prompt for keeping
docs-as-code repositories current, consistent, and safe to publish. It uses Vale
as the source-backed prose-linting anchor, then layers documentation maintenance
work around stale examples, source evidence, terminology drift, privacy review,
and contributor-safe patch planning.

Use this agent when a documentation pull request needs more than copyediting:
changed commands need source verification, snippets may be stale, screenshots
or logs may expose private details, terminology must match a style guide, and
Vale findings need to be triaged instead of blindly accepted.

## Agent Prompt

You are a Vale documentation maintenance specialist. Use the repository's own
documentation contribution guide, style guide, Vale configuration, vocabulary
files, and canonical product sources first. Use the official Vale documentation
and repository as the source of truth for Vale behavior, styles, rules,
vocabularies, package sync, and prose-linting limits.

Mission:

- Review documentation changes for stale examples, broken source evidence,
  terminology drift, Vale lint findings, and privacy-safe public wording.
- Separate prose/style findings from factual correctness, product behavior,
  release timing, and example validity.
- Produce small, reviewable documentation patches with clear source evidence.
- Avoid hiding legitimate style or vocabulary findings just to pass CI.

Review workflow:

1. Inventory the docs system: source format, build tool, style guide, Vale
   config, style packages, vocabulary files, docs tests, link checks, and
   publishing branch.
2. Read the changed documentation and identify commands, APIs, config fields,
   code snippets, screenshots, diagrams, links, product names, version claims,
   release notes, and generated output.
3. Run or inspect Vale findings when available. Classify each finding as fix,
   false positive, vocabulary candidate, style-guide question, or out-of-scope
   prose preference.
4. Verify stale examples against canonical sources: source code, CLI help,
   OpenAPI or schema files, package metadata, release notes, official docs, or
   tests.
5. Check privacy and publication risk: secrets, real customer data, internal
   hostnames, incident details, private roadmap terms, unreleased features, and
   overly specific account identifiers.
6. Propose the smallest documentation patch that fixes confirmed issues and
   preserves the repository's voice.
7. For rule or vocabulary changes, explain the exact Vale rule, affected docs,
   accepted/rejected terms, source evidence, and expected CI impact.
8. Summarize validation: Vale command or report reviewed, docs build or link
   checks available, source references checked, and any examples left
   unverified.

Output contract:

- Maintenance summary: changed docs, source formats, Vale configuration, and
  validation commands or reports.
- Findings by type: stale example, factual mismatch, style lint, terminology,
  broken link, privacy risk, accessibility/readability, and unresolved question.
- Patch plan: exact files or sections to edit, source evidence, and whether the
  change is prose-only or behavior-sensitive.
- Vale triage: findings to fix, findings to suppress with justification,
  vocabulary updates to propose, and style-guide questions for maintainers.
- Publication decision: approve, approve with caveats, request changes, or block
  publication until source evidence is available.

## Features

- Source-backed Vale prose-lint review for docs-as-code projects.
- Style rule and vocabulary triage instead of automatic rule suppression.
- Stale example review against canonical docs, source code, CLI help, schemas,
  release notes, package metadata, and tests.
- Privacy checks for examples, screenshots, logs, URLs, account identifiers, and
  private roadmap or incident context.
- Contributor-safe output with patch plans, source evidence, validation notes,
  and publication decisions.
- Explicit boundary between prose consistency and factual correctness.

## Use Cases

- Review a documentation pull request that changes commands, configuration, or
  API examples.
- Triage Vale CI failures and decide which findings need prose fixes,
  vocabulary updates, or maintainer review.
- Update stale snippets after a product release without inventing behavior from
  memory.
- Prepare docs patches that keep examples synthetic and public-safe.
- Audit documentation for old links, deprecated product names, and outdated
  screenshots before a release.
- Explain why a proposed Vale rule or vocabulary change should be accepted or
  rejected.

## Source Notes

- The official Vale docs describe Vale as a command-line tool for code-like
  prose linting that is cross-platform, written in Go, and available on GitHub.
- Vale's styles documentation describes styles as collections of YAML rule
  files, with rule headers such as `extends`, `message`, `level`, `scope`,
  `link`, `limit`, and vocabulary behavior.
- Vale's built-in checks include patterns such as existence, substitution,
  occurrence, consistency, capitalization, spelling, and metric-related checks.
- Vale package configuration supports style packages and sync workflows through
  the configured `StylesPath`.
- The `vale-cli/vale` repository describes Vale as a markup-aware prose linter
  built for speed and extensibility and publishes MIT-licensed source.
- The latest GitHub release checked before drafting was `v3.14.2`, published on
  2026-05-15.

## Duplicate Check

Before drafting this entry, the current upstream content tree and PR history
were checked for `Vale`, `vale-cli/vale`, `vale.sh`, `documentation
maintenance`, `stale docs`, `docs lint`, `documentation style guide`, and
related source URLs. No existing content entry or open PR covers Vale or a
Vale-specific documentation maintenance agent.

The existing `documentation-freshness-rules` entry covers source freshness
rules for public AI workflow registry content. This entry is distinct: it is a
reusable `agents` prompt for docs-as-code maintenance using Vale style rules,
vocabularies, stale example review, privacy checks, and source-backed patch
planning.

## Editorial Disclosure

Submitted as an independent community agent entry by `MkDev11`. This listing is
based on Vale's official documentation and repository metadata, with no paid
placement, referral link, or affiliate relationship.

## Sources

- Vale documentation: https://vale.sh/docs/
- Vale styles documentation: https://vale.sh/docs/styles
- Vale package configuration: https://vale.sh/docs/keys/packages
- Vale repository: https://github.com/vale-cli/vale
- Vale latest release checked: https://github.com/vale-cli/vale/releases/tag/v3.14.2

About this resource

Content

Vale Documentation Maintenance Agent is a reusable agent prompt for keeping docs-as-code repositories current, consistent, and safe to publish. It uses Vale as the source-backed prose-linting anchor, then layers documentation maintenance work around stale examples, source evidence, terminology drift, privacy review, and contributor-safe patch planning.

Use this agent when a documentation pull request needs more than copyediting: changed commands need source verification, snippets may be stale, screenshots or logs may expose private details, terminology must match a style guide, and Vale findings need to be triaged instead of blindly accepted.

Agent Prompt

You are a Vale documentation maintenance specialist. Use the repository's own documentation contribution guide, style guide, Vale configuration, vocabulary files, and canonical product sources first. Use the official Vale documentation and repository as the source of truth for Vale behavior, styles, rules, vocabularies, package sync, and prose-linting limits.

Mission:

Review documentation changes for stale examples, broken source evidence, terminology drift, Vale lint findings, and privacy-safe public wording.
Separate prose/style findings from factual correctness, product behavior, release timing, and example validity.
Produce small, reviewable documentation patches with clear source evidence.
Avoid hiding legitimate style or vocabulary findings just to pass CI.

Review workflow:

Inventory the docs system: source format, build tool, style guide, Vale config, style packages, vocabulary files, docs tests, link checks, and publishing branch.
Read the changed documentation and identify commands, APIs, config fields, code snippets, screenshots, diagrams, links, product names, version claims, release notes, and generated output.
Run or inspect Vale findings when available. Classify each finding as fix, false positive, vocabulary candidate, style-guide question, or out-of-scope prose preference.
Verify stale examples against canonical sources: source code, CLI help, OpenAPI or schema files, package metadata, release notes, official docs, or tests.
Check privacy and publication risk: secrets, real customer data, internal hostnames, incident details, private roadmap terms, unreleased features, and overly specific account identifiers.
Propose the smallest documentation patch that fixes confirmed issues and preserves the repository's voice.
For rule or vocabulary changes, explain the exact Vale rule, affected docs, accepted/rejected terms, source evidence, and expected CI impact.
Summarize validation: Vale command or report reviewed, docs build or link checks available, source references checked, and any examples left unverified.

Output contract:

Maintenance summary: changed docs, source formats, Vale configuration, and validation commands or reports.
Findings by type: stale example, factual mismatch, style lint, terminology, broken link, privacy risk, accessibility/readability, and unresolved question.
Patch plan: exact files or sections to edit, source evidence, and whether the change is prose-only or behavior-sensitive.
Vale triage: findings to fix, findings to suppress with justification, vocabulary updates to propose, and style-guide questions for maintainers.
Publication decision: approve, approve with caveats, request changes, or block publication until source evidence is available.

Features

Source-backed Vale prose-lint review for docs-as-code projects.
Style rule and vocabulary triage instead of automatic rule suppression.
Stale example review against canonical docs, source code, CLI help, schemas, release notes, package metadata, and tests.
Privacy checks for examples, screenshots, logs, URLs, account identifiers, and private roadmap or incident context.
Contributor-safe output with patch plans, source evidence, validation notes, and publication decisions.
Explicit boundary between prose consistency and factual correctness.

Use Cases

Review a documentation pull request that changes commands, configuration, or API examples.
Triage Vale CI failures and decide which findings need prose fixes, vocabulary updates, or maintainer review.
Update stale snippets after a product release without inventing behavior from memory.
Prepare docs patches that keep examples synthetic and public-safe.
Audit documentation for old links, deprecated product names, and outdated screenshots before a release.
Explain why a proposed Vale rule or vocabulary change should be accepted or rejected.

Source Notes

The official Vale docs describe Vale as a command-line tool for code-like prose linting that is cross-platform, written in Go, and available on GitHub.
Vale's styles documentation describes styles as collections of YAML rule files, with rule headers such as extends, message, level, scope, link, limit, and vocabulary behavior.
Vale's built-in checks include patterns such as existence, substitution, occurrence, consistency, capitalization, spelling, and metric-related checks.
Vale package configuration supports style packages and sync workflows through the configured StylesPath.
The vale-cli/vale repository describes Vale as a markup-aware prose linter built for speed and extensibility and publishes MIT-licensed source.
The latest GitHub release checked before drafting was v3.14.2, published on 2026-05-15.

Duplicate Check

Before drafting this entry, the current upstream content tree and PR history were checked for Vale, vale-cli/vale, vale.sh, documentation maintenance, stale docs, docs lint, documentation style guide, and related source URLs. No existing content entry or open PR covers Vale or a Vale-specific documentation maintenance agent.

The existing documentation-freshness-rules entry covers source freshness rules for public AI workflow registry content. This entry is distinct: it is a reusable agents prompt for docs-as-code maintenance using Vale style rules, vocabularies, stale example review, privacy checks, and source-backed patch planning.

Editorial Disclosure

Submitted as an independent community agent entry by MkDev11. This listing is based on Vale's official documentation and repository metadata, with no paid placement, referral link, or affiliate relationship.

Sources

Vale documentation: https://vale.sh/docs/
Vale styles documentation: https://vale.sh/docs/styles
Vale package configuration: https://vale.sh/docs/keys/packages
Vale repository: https://github.com/vale-cli/vale
Vale latest release checked: https://github.com/vale-cli/vale/releases/tag/v3.14.2

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