Vale Review

Run the Vale prose linter as an independent, deterministic reviewer for a @swamp/software-factory writing-review stage. Emits Vale's alerts in the same kind: findings contract a judgement-based LLM reviewer produces, so both plug into the factory's findings-clear gate identically.

Severity maps Vale error → high, warning → medium, suggestion → low, so a gate blocking on [critical, high] blocks on Vale errors while recording the softer alerts non-blockingly. The first finding is always a VALE-0 recon entry, so a clean pass states what ran rather than returning an empty array.

The extension ships NO styles and NO .vale.ini: it provides the capability, and the style guide is the caller's private configuration. Point it at your own config with the configPath global argument; Vale resolves StylesPath relative to that file. A missing Vale binary yields valeAvailable: false rather than a thrown error, and Vale exit code 1 (issues found) is treated as a normal result.

Use

swamp extension pull @atalanta/vale-review
swamp model create @atalanta/vale-review my-vale
swamp model edit my-vale   # set configPath to your repo's .vale.ini
swamp model method run my-vale review --input path=doc.md