@redocly/recheck 0.14.0 → 2.58.0

package/README.md

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-# Recheck
+# @redocly/recheck
 
-Recheck combines a **markdown linter** (structure/format — full markdownlint rule parity: 53 built-in rules with auto-fix) and a **prose linter** (style/voice — Vale-style scopes like `sentence`/`paragraph`/`heading` with `swap`/`pattern`/`repetition`/`consistency`/`capitalization` rules) in **one tool with one simple YAML config** — replacing a markdownlint + Vale combo with one line:
+The Markdown and prose linting engine behind `redocly recheck`.
 
-```yaml
-extends: [recheck/markdown, recheck/prose]
-```
-
-Recheck is also built to be **embedded by other tools**: it exposes a library-first API (`parseMarkdown`, `extractScopes`, `lintContent`, `lintFiles`, `runRules` — see [Library API](#library-api)) so tools like Redocly CLI's `lint` command can add markdown and prose linting too, including linting markdown strings embedded inside API descriptions.
-
-## Features
-
-✅ **Modern Scope-Based Architecture**
-- File-first processing: each file is parsed once into a [micromark](https://github.com/micromark/micromark) AST, then segmented into scopes
-- Full scope vocabulary: `all`, `raw`, `summary` (alias: `default`), `sentence`, `paragraph`, `heading` (+ `heading.h1`-`h6`), `code`, `list-item`, `blockquote`, `table.header`, `table.cell`, `markdoc.tag`, `frontmatter`, `html`, `comment`, `alt`, `link`
-- Selector syntax for precise targeting: `~` negates a term, `&` joins terms into a conjunction — e.g. `scope: ['~blockquote & ~heading']`
-- Vale-compatible scope notation (e.g., `heading.h1`, `heading.h2`)
-- Efficient rule indexing for fast processing at scale
-
-✅ **Flexible Configuration Format**
-- Modern `assertions`-based rule definitions
-- `severity` levels: `off`, `info`, `warn`, `error`
-- Array-based scope targeting for precise control
-- Comprehensive JSON Schema validation
-
-✅ **Production-Ready Engine**
-- High-performance JavaScript engine optimized for large repositories
-- Successfully processes 300+ files with 1,000+ issues efficiently
-- Built-in rules for common content quality checks
-- Safe auto-fix capabilities for appropriate rules
-
-✅ **Developer-Friendly CLI**
-- Table, JSON, SARIF, and GitHub Actions output formats for CI/CD integration
-- Universal output-path option for file export
-- Inline PR annotations with GitHub Actions format
-- Severity filtering and detailed statistics
-- Auto-fix with granular control
-- Comprehensive error reporting
-
-## Installation
-
-```bash
-# Navigate to the recheck package
-cd packages/recheck
-
-# Install dependencies
-pnpm install
-
-# Build the project
-pnpm build
-```
-
-**Contributing to Recheck itself** (build-cache problems, `pnpm parity`'s required `--corpus` flag, the `generate-examples.mjs`/`oxfmt` coupling) is covered in [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md), not here — this README is for people adopting Recheck as a linter.
-
-## Usage
-
-### Validate Configuration
-
-```bash
-# Validate with explicit config file
-node dist/cli.js --validate-config --config recheck.example.yaml
-
-# Auto-discover config file in current directory
-node dist/cli.js --validate-config
-```
-
-### Run content linting
-
-```bash
-# Run on current directory
-node dist/cli.js . --config recheck.example.yaml
-
-# Run on specific file
-node dist/cli.js README.md --config recheck.example.yaml
-
-# Filter by severity (only show errors)
-node dist/cli.js . --severity error
-
-# Show all enabled rules (info and above)
-node dist/cli.js . --severity info
-
-# Work one rule at a time. This helps you clear a large list of findings.
-# Give the name that the report shows, or the full config key. Use the flag
-# more than one time for more than one rule. A rule from a namespace other
-# than `recheck/` keeps that namespace: use `google/passive-voice`.
-node dist/cli.js . --rule semantic-line-breaks
-node dist/cli.js . -r us-spelling -r recheck/oxford-comma
-
-# ...and its inverse, to silence a rule you have already triaged
-node dist/cli.js . --exclude-rule semantic-line-breaks
-
-# Use --rule with --fix to clear one rule's findings across all documents
-node dist/cli.js . --rule semantic-line-breaks --fix
-
-# A name that matches no rule in your config is an error, not an empty run:
-# a misspelled filter that reported "no issues" would look the same as a
-# clean document set. The error message lists the rules your config loaded.
-
-# Output formats (table is default)
-node dist/cli.js . --output table           # Human-readable table (default)
-node dist/cli.js . --output json            # Structured JSON for CI
-node dist/cli.js . --output sarif           # SARIF format for security tools
-node dist/cli.js . --output github-actions  # GitHub Actions annotations (inline PR comments)
-
-# Show detailed statistics
-node dist/cli.js . --stats
-
-# Auto-fix safe issues (35 fixable rules total: swap + semantic-line-breaks
-# natively, plus 33 of the 53 markdownlint-parity rules — see the rule table
-# under "Markdownlint parity" below for the full per-rule breakdown)
-node dist/cli.js . --fix
-
-# Combine auto-fix with statistics
-node dist/cli.js . --fix --stats
-
-# Limit annotations for CI (applies to file output, default: 20)
-node dist/cli.js . --annotations-limit 50
-
-# Output to file (works with all formats)
-node dist/cli.js . --output json --output-path report.json
-node dist/cli.js . --output sarif --output-path recheck.sarif
-node dist/cli.js . --output json --output-path limited.json --annotations-limit 50
-
-# Emit run summary to a file (json or text)
-node dist/cli.js . --summary json --summary-path recheck-summary.json
-
-# Scan only changed files (via file list or stdin)
-# From file:
-node dist/cli.js . --changed-only --changed-list changed.txt
-# Or with stdin:
-git diff --name-only origin/main... | node dist/cli.js . --changed-only
-```
-
-## Library API
-
-The CLI is a thin wrapper around a public library API, published from `packages/recheck`'s `dist/index.js`.
-This is the intended integration point for embedding Recheck in another tool (a build step, an editor extension, or another CLI like Redocly CLI's `lint`) rather than shelling out:
-
-```ts
-import { lintContent, lintFiles } from '@redocly/recheck';
-
-// A config is a flat map of `recheck/<rule>` -> rule definition — the same
-// shape a YAML config file resolves to once `extends` presets are expanded.
-// Load from YAML (via `loadConfig`, which resolves `extends` for you) or
-// build one programmatically, as here:
-const config = {
-  'recheck/no-hard-tabs': {
-    severity: 'error' as const,
-    message: 'Hard tabs',
-    assertions: { 'no-hard-tabs': {} },
-  },
-};
-
-// Lint an in-memory string — no file I/O. Useful for linting markdown that
-// isn't on disk, e.g. a `description` field pulled out of an OpenAPI document.
-const problems = await lintContent('# Title\n\nSome *text*.\n', config);
-
-// Lint files from disk, optionally writing auto-fixes back:
-const { problems: fileProblems, fixedFiles } = await lintFiles(['README.md'], config, {
-  fix: true,
-});
-```
-
-Key exports:
-
-- **`parseMarkdown(content, options?)`** — parses a markdown string into a micromark-based token tree, once.
-  Every other API in this list builds on this tree rather than re-parsing.
-  `options.markdoc` is a boolean here: `true` also tokenizes `{% ... %}` Markdoc tag spans into `markdocTag` tokens, and `false` or omitted gives you the same tree as passing no options at all.
-  The [object form](#markdoc-aware-linting-markdoc-true) (`{ schema, extend }`) is a config-file concept only — it resolves down to this boolean before any file is parsed, and `ParseOptions.markdoc` does not accept it.
-- **`extractScopes(tree, content)`** — segments a parsed token tree into Vale-style scopes (`sentence`, `paragraph`, `heading`, `list-item`, `blockquote`, `table.cell`, etc.) for prose/style rules to run against.
-- **`lintContent(content, config, opts?)`** — lints a single in-memory markdown string against a config; no disk access.
-  Rules that need on-disk facts (e.g. `max-image-size`) require `opts.metadata` to be supplied by the caller.
-- **`lintFiles(paths, config, opts?)`** — lints markdown files from disk; pass `{ fix: true }` to also write auto-fixes back, looping lint → fix → re-lint until the file converges.
-  Files that can't be read are skipped (with a console warning) and reported in the returned `skippedFiles` (`{ path, reason }[]`), so callers can detect incomplete coverage programmatically.
-  `opts.root` sets the lint root that image-metadata loading is confined to (default `process.cwd()`) — image refs resolving outside it are treated as missing without touching the disk.
-  `opts.maxProblems` caps the total problems collected: once a file's lint pushes the run to the cap, later files aren't linted at all and the returned `truncated` flag is set.
-- **`runRules(files, rules)`** — the lower-level engine entry point for callers that already have a `NormalizedRule[]` (e.g. from `loadConfig`) and want to run against an explicit in-memory file list, bypassing `lintFiles`'s own config loading/validation.
-  Under `{ fix: true }` its `RunResult` separates the fixes that genuinely landed (`fixes`) from proposals dropped by overlap resolution (`skippedFixes`).
-- **`applyFixesToContent(content, fixes)`** — applies `Fix` edits to a string, preserving the file's own line endings (CRLF files stay CRLF).
-  Returns `{ content, applied, skipped }`: every input fix is classified as genuinely applied or skipped (overlapping edits, out-of-range lines), so callers can report what actually changed rather than every proposal.
-- **`computeTextStatistics(prose)`** — computes word/sentence/syllable/character/complex-word counts for a plain prose string (not markdown — extract prose from a scope first).
-  Sentence counting reuses `splitSentences` internally, so it agrees with the rest of the engine on sentence boundaries.
-  Tokenization is ASCII-only by design (accented or non-Latin letters don't count as word characters), so readability scores are meaningful for English prose.
-- **`computeReadability(formula, stats)`** — scores a `TextStatistics` object with one of six standard readability formulas: `flesch-reading-ease`, `flesch-kincaid-grade`, `gunning-fog`, `smog`, `coleman-liau`, `automated-readability`.
-  Returns `0` (rather than `NaN`/`Infinity`) when `stats.words` or `stats.sentences` is `0`.
-- **`TECHNICAL_PROPER_NOUNS`** — the [built-in technical proper-noun vocabulary](#built-in-technical-proper-noun-vocabulary) `capitalization`/`spelling` consume by default; re-exported so you can read it or build your own tooling around the same list.
-
-This is exactly the surface a host tool needs to add both markdown-structure linting and prose/style linting to content it already has in memory — for example, linting the markdown inside an OpenAPI `description` field without writing it to a temp file first.
-
-## Configuration Format
-
-Configuration uses a modern `assertions`-based format with `severity` levels and flexible scope targeting.
-
-A top-level `excludes` applies to every rule, so a path you never lint is stated once rather than repeated on each rule.
-It is merged ahead of a rule's own `excludes`, which still apply:
-
-```yaml
-excludes:
-  - "**/_partials/**"
-  - "CHANGELOG.md"
-```
-
-```yaml
-recheck/us-spelling:
-  scope: all # default
-  severity: error
-  message: 'Use the US spelling "%s" instead of British "%s".'
-  link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/style-guide/word-choice/use-us-spelling-avoid-non-english-words
-  appliesTo:
-    - "docs/**"              # Only apply to documentation
-  assertions:
-    swap:
-      ignoreCase: true
-      wordBoundary: true
-      pairs:
-        color: colour
-        behavior: behaviour
-        organize: organise
-  exceptions:
-    files: [docs/style-guide.md]
-    lines:
-      - "British spellings such as 'color'"
-
-recheck/no-gerund-headings:
-  severity: error
-  scope: 
-    - heading.h1
-    - heading.h2
-    - heading.h3
-  message: 'Do not start headings with a gerund.'
-  excludes:
-    - "**/drafts/**"         # Exclude draft documents
-  assertions:
-    pattern:
-      ignoreCase: true
-      tokens:
-        - '^\\w*ing.*'
-
-recheck/config-line-length:
-  severity: error
-  message: 'Config docs: keep lines under %s characters.'
-  appliesTo:
-    - "docs/config/**"       # Only apply to config documentation
-  assertions:
-    line-length:
-      lineLength: 100
-      codeBlocks: false
-
-recheck/ul-style-dash:
-  severity: error
-  message: "Use '-' for unordered list bullets."
-  excludes:
-    - "**/examples/**"       # Allow mixed styles in examples
-  assertions:
-    ul-style:
-      style: dash
-```
-
-## Baseline
-
-A baseline lets a team adopt recheck on a large document set with no cleanup project first: record the findings that exist today, then fail only on new ones.
-
-```bash
-recheck --generate-baseline            # writes recheck-baseline.yaml next to your config
-```
-
-Activate it with one config line:
-
-```yaml
-baseline: ./recheck-baseline.yaml
-```
-
-The file stores one count per file per rule, errors only, sorted for stable diffs:
-
-```yaml
-version: 1
-files:
-  docs/index.md:
-    recheck/semantic-line-breaks: 3
-```
-
-With the baseline active, `recheck`:
-
-- **suppresses** findings whose (file, rule) count matches the baseline, and reports how many matched;
-- **fails** when a count rises — the group's findings are printed with `(baseline 3, found 5)` context;
-- **fails** when a count falls, because the baseline is stale — the message says to run `recheck --generate-baseline` and commit the result.
-  Counts only step down, so the file equals reality at every green commit.
-
-Warnings are never baselined; they do not affect exit codes.
-Partial runs (`--rule`, `--changed-only`, a narrower path) compare only the files they scanned and the rules they ran, so they never false-alarm about what they did not see.
-Line numbers are deliberately not stored: counts survive unrelated edits, and a baseline diff in review reads as "this PR pays down 4 findings."
-A renamed file is a new path with no budget, so its pre-existing findings report as new until you regenerate — the baseline diff then shows the counts moving from the old path to the new one.
-
-## Readability
-
-`recheck --readability` reports scores per file: Flesch reading ease, Flesch-Kincaid grade, Automated Readability Index (ARI), words, and sentences, plus medians.
-ARI is a grade level computed from exact character counts, with no syllable heuristic, which makes it steadier on technical vocabulary.
-It is score-shaped, not rule-shaped: it never gates and always exits 0 when it ran.
-To gate on a bound, use the `metric` assertion — both read the same prose and the same formulas, so they can never disagree.
-
-```bash
-recheck docs --readability
-recheck docs --readability --output json
-recheck docs --readability --changed-only < changed.txt   # score only listed files
-```
-
-The score reads flowing prose the way standard readability tools do: headings, code, and Markdoc tags are excluded, and every block ends a sentence.
-A file with no prose reports `—` (null in JSON) rather than a fake zero.
-In CI, run it twice — once on the PR head and once on the merge-base worktree — and join on file to show each changed page's score change.
-
-## Agent skills
-
-Agents write a growing share of markdown, and a skill makes each one a recheck user with no person in the loop.
-Two skills ship in the npm package under `skills/`:
-
-- **`recheck-lint`** — run recheck on touched markdown before committing or outputting it, fix errors, and never suppress findings to pass.
-- **`recheck-config`** — write and tune `recheck.yaml`: measure the corpus, set severities from counts, prefer fixes over exceptions, and adopt a baseline for large corpora.
-
-To use them with Claude Code, copy them into your project:
-
-```bash
-cp -r node_modules/@redocly/recheck/skills/recheck-lint .claude/skills/
-cp -r node_modules/@redocly/recheck/skills/recheck-config .claude/skills/
-```
-
-Each skill is one `SKILL.md` with a trigger description and instructions, so other agent runtimes can adapt them with a rename.
-
-## Exceptions
-
-Rules can be configured with exceptions to skip specific files or lines:
-
-### File Exceptions
-
-Skip entire files using glob patterns or exact matches:
-
-```yaml
-recheck/us-spelling:
-  # ... other config
-  exceptions:
-    files:
-      - "docs/style-guide.md"      # Exact filename
-      - "docs/api/*.md"            # Glob pattern
-      - "**/CHANGELOG.md"          # Recursive glob
-```
-
-**File matching supports:**
-- **Basename matching**: `style-guide.md` matches any file with that name
-- **Relative path matching**: `docs/style-guide.md` matches the specific path
-- **Glob patterns**: `docs/*.md` matches all markdown files in docs directory
-
-### Line Exceptions
-
-Skip specific lines using fragment matching:
-
-```yaml
-recheck/no-trailing-spaces:
-  # ... other config
-  exceptions:
-    lines:
-      - "British spellings such as"    # Fragment match
-      - "Code example:"                # Beginning of line
-      - "// ignore-lint"               # Comment-based exception
-```
-
-**Line matching behavior:**
-- **Fragment matching**: If the line contains the exception text anywhere, it's skipped
-- **Case-sensitive**: `"Code Example"` does not match `"code example"`
-- **Multiple patterns**: Any matching pattern will skip the line
-
-### Exception Examples
-
-```yaml
-# Skip documentation style guides for spelling rules
-recheck/us-spelling:
-  exceptions:
-    files: ["docs/style-guide.md", "**/*style*"]
-    lines: ["British spellings such as 'colour'"]
-
-# Skip auto-generated files and code blocks
-recheck/no-trailing-spaces:
-  exceptions:
-    files: ["**/generated/**", "CHANGELOG.md"]
-    lines: ["```", "Code example:", "// formatter-ignore"]
-```
-
-## Inline Directives
-
-Beyond config-level `exceptions`, individual Markdown files can silence rules
-inline with HTML comments — the same mechanism ESLint/Vale users expect.
-A
-directive names rules by their **short name** (`oxford-comma`) or **full
-name** (`recheck/oxford-comma`) — both work.
-A directive is inert inside a
-fenced code block (it has to be real, parsed HTML, not just matching text).
-
-```markdown
-<!-- recheck-disable -->
-Everything below this point is unchecked, for every rule.
-<!-- recheck-enable -->
-Checking resumes here.
-
-<!-- recheck-disable oxford-comma us-spelling -->
-Only these two rules are off from here on.
-<!-- recheck-enable oxford-comma -->
-us-spelling is still off; oxford-comma is back on.
-
-<!-- recheck-disable-next-line oxford-comma -->
-This one line is exempt from oxford-comma; the rest of the file isn't.
-
-<!-- recheck-disable-file -->
-Nothing in this file is linted at all, no matter where this comment sits.
-```
-
-The five forms:
-
-| Directive | Effect |
-| --- | --- |
-| `<!-- recheck-disable -->` | Disables **all** rules from this line to the end of the file, or until a matching `recheck-enable`. |
-| `<!-- recheck-disable rule… -->` | Disables only the **listed** rules from this line on (same end conditions). |
-| `<!-- recheck-enable -->` | Re-enables all rules (or, with rule names, only the listed ones) from this line on. |
-| `<!-- recheck-disable-next-line -->` | Disables all rules (or, with rule names, only the listed ones) for exactly the next line. |
-| `<!-- recheck-disable-file -->` | Disables every rule for the whole file, regardless of where the comment appears. |
-
-Rule naming: list one or more rules space-separated, by short name
-(`oxford-comma`) or full name (`recheck/oxford-comma`) — both work on every
-form that accepts names; omitting names targets every rule.
-Naming a rule
-that isn't configured produces a warning (`recheck-directive`, severity
-`warn`) pointing at the directive's line — useful for catching a typo in
-the disabled rule name — but disables nothing.
-
-## Rule Types and Assertions
-
-### Assertion Types
-
-Rules are defined using `assertions` that specify their behavior:
-
-#### Swap Assertions (`swap`)
-Text replacement with configurable options.
-**Fixable**: each match is replaced with its pair's value, with the matched text's own casing applied to the replacement --
-an all-lowercase match inserts the replacement as configured, a Capitalized match capitalizes just the replacement's first word,
-and an ALL-CAPS match (2+ letters) uppercases the whole replacement;
-any other (mixed-case) casing is left as configured, since it carries no reliable intent to infer.
-This matters most with `ignoreCase: true`: without it, a sentence-initial `'Behaviour'` would be fixed to literal `'behavior'`, silently lowercasing the start of the sentence -- with it, it fixes to `'Behavior'`.
-(With `keysAreRegex: true`, casing is inferred from the MATCHED text, not the regex key, so this applies uniformly to regex keys too.)
-When two pairs' matches overlap in the source (a compound key together with the shorter keys it contains), the longest match wins and is reported and fixed as one span.
-
-```yaml
-assertions:
-  swap:
-    ignoreCase: true
-    wordBoundary: true
-    pairs:
-      color: colour
-      behavior: behaviour
-```
-
-| Option | Type | Required | Description |
-| --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| `pairs` | `object` | Yes | Find → replace entries: each key is searched for in the segment's content and reported/fixed with its value. Keys must be non-empty strings; values must be strings. |
-| `ignoreCase` | `boolean` | No | Matches keys case-insensitively. Default `false`. |
-| `wordBoundary` | `boolean` | No | Wraps each key in `\b...\b` so only whole words match. Default `false`. |
-| `keysAreRegex` | `boolean` | No | Keys are literal text by default; set `true` to treat each key as a regex (for example, `favou?rite` matches both spellings). An invalid regex key is ignored and matches nothing; the rule's other pairs still apply. Default `false`. |
-| `includeCode` | `boolean` | No | Matches inside inline code spans (`` `like this` ``) are skipped by default, so a pair like `master: primary` doesn't fire inside `` `git checkout master` ``. Set `true` to scan inline code too. Default `false`. |
-
-A missing or empty `pairs`, an empty-string key, a non-string replacement value, or an unknown option key under `swap` is a validation error.
-
-The rule's `message` gets two positional `%s` substitutions, in this order: **1st = the replacement, 2nd = the matched text** — with the pair `utilize: use`, the message `'Use "%s" instead of "%s".'` renders as `'Use "use" instead of "utilize".'`
-
-#### Pattern Assertions (`pattern`)
-Regex-based pattern matching:
-```yaml
-assertions:
-  pattern:
-    ignoreCase: true
-    tokens:
-      - '^\\w*ing.*'
-```
-
-| Option | Type | Required | Description |
-| --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| `tokens` | `string[]` | Yes | Regex patterns matched against each segment's content. An invalid regex is caught and silently produces zero problems rather than crashing the run. |
-| `ignoreCase` | `boolean` | No | Matches every token case-insensitively. Default `false`. |
-| `includeCode` | `boolean` | No | Matches inside inline code spans (`` `like this` ``) are skipped by default, so a token like `master` doesn't fire inside `` `git checkout master` ``. Set `true` to scan inline code too. Default `false`. |
-
-#### Occurrence Assertions (`occurrence`)
-Vale-parity `occurrence` check: counts regex matches within each scoped segment and flags the segment when the count falls outside `[min, max]`.
-`min: 1` with no `max` acts as an existence check — it flags a segment where the pattern is missing entirely.
-
-```yaml
-assertions:
-  occurrence:
-    pattern: '[.!?]'
-    max: 3
-```
-
-| Option | Type | Required | Description |
-| --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| `pattern` | `string` | Yes | Regex matched against each segment's content (whole segment, not per-line). |
-| `min` | `number` | At least one of `min`/`max` | Minimum allowed match count; fewer matches is a violation. `min: 1` with no `max` reads as "the pattern must be present". |
-| `max` | `number` | At least one of `min`/`max` | Maximum allowed match count; more matches is a violation. |
-| `ignoreCase` | `boolean` | No | Matches `pattern` case-insensitively. Default `false`. |
-
-Omitting both `min` and `max` is a validation error — an occurrence assertion with no bound can never report anything.
-An unknown option key under `occurrence` is likewise a validation error.
-
-The rule's `message` gets two positional `%s` substitutions, in this order: **1st = the actual match count, 2nd = the bound that was violated** (`min` or `max`, whichever applied), e.g. `'Too many sentences (%s found, max %s).'` → `'Too many sentences (4 found, max 3).'`.
-Not fixable (detection-only): a count-based violation has no single match position to anchor an edit to.
-
-#### Repetition Assertions (`repetition`)
-Vale-parity `repetition` check: flags an adjacent repeated word — two tokens matching `pattern`, separated only by whitespace (which may include a single hard-wrap newline), so `'the theory'` is not flagged (different words) but `'the the'` and a hard-wrapped `'the\nthe rest'` are.
-**Fixable**: collapses the pair back to one occurrence, keeping the FIRST token's casing/text (so `'The the'` fixes to `'The'`, not `'the'`).
-
-```yaml
-assertions:
-  repetition:
-    ignoreCase: true # default
-```
-
-| Option | Type | Required | Description |
-| --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| `pattern` | `string` | No | Regex used to tokenize each segment's content. Default `\w+`. |
-| `ignoreCase` | `boolean` | No | Compares adjacent tokens case-insensitively. Default **`true`** — unlike every other assertion's case-sensitive default, since `'The the'` is the overwhelmingly common typo this check exists to catch. Set `false` to require an exact-case repeat. |
-
-An unknown option key under `repetition` is a validation error, as is a non-string `pattern` or a non-boolean `ignoreCase`; both options are optional, so an empty `repetition: {}` is valid.
-
-The rule's `message` gets one positional `%s` substitution: the repeated word itself, e.g. `'Repeated word "%s".'` → `'Repeated word "the".'`.
-Fix idempotency holds under repeated `--fix` passes: `'the the the'` converges to `'the'`.
-
-#### Consistency Assertions (`consistency`)
-Vale-parity `consistency` check: each `either` entry declares one alternative group — the key and the value are the two variants (both matched as literals with word boundaries, like `swap` keys).
-Whichever variant appears **first in the file (by source order)** wins file-wide; every later occurrence of the other variant is flagged.
-**Fixable**: each later occurrence is replaced with the winning variant **literally as written in `either`** — unlike `swap`, the losing match's own casing is not preserved here (with `ignoreCase: true`, a later `'Behaviour'` in a `behavior`-first document fixes to `'behavior'`).
-
-```yaml
-assertions:
-  consistency:
-    either:
-      behavior: behaviour
-      color: colour
-```
-
-| Option | Type | Required | Description |
-| --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| `either` | `object` | Yes | Map of variant pairs; key and value are the two alternatives of one group. Each pair gets its own independent first-seen winner. Must be non-empty. |
-| `ignoreCase` | `boolean` | No | Matches variants case-insensitively (so `'Behaviour'` counts as an occurrence of `behaviour`). Default `false`. |
-
-Omitting `either`, leaving it empty, or giving it non-string or empty-string keys or values is a validation error — a consistency assertion with no variant pairs can never report anything, and an empty-string key would otherwise reach the scan loop as a zero-width regex that never terminates.
-An unknown option key under `consistency` is likewise a validation error.
-
-Matches from overlapping scopes (e.g. `scope: [paragraph, sentence]`, where every sentence segment sits inside its paragraph segment) are deduplicated by source position before the winner is decided, so each occurrence is counted — and fixed — exactly once.
-
-The rule's `message` gets two positional `%s` substitutions, in this order: **1st = the offending (later) match, 2nd = the first-seen winner**, e.g. `'Inconsistent spelling: "%s" conflicts with first-seen "%s".'` → `'Inconsistent spelling: "behaviour" conflicts with first-seen "behavior".'`.
-
-#### Conditional Assertions (`conditional`)
-Vale-parity `conditional` check: if `first` (a regex pattern) matches anywhere within the rule's scoped segments, `second` (a regex pattern) must exist **somewhere in the whole file** — checked against the full raw file content, not just the rule's own scope, so a `second` match sitting inside a code block still satisfies a rule scoped to `paragraph`.
-When `second` is absent file-wide, every `first` match becomes its own problem, at its exact source position.
-**Detection-only** (not fixable) — there is no single well-defined edit that would "introduce" `second`.
-
-```yaml
-assertions:
-  conditional:
-    first: '\bTODO\b'
-    second: '\bDONE\b'
-```
-
-| Option | Type | Required | Description |
-| --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| `first` | `string` | Yes | Regex; if it matches anywhere in the rule's scoped segments, `second` is required. Non-empty. |
-| `second` | `string` | Yes | Regex; must match somewhere in the whole file content once `first` has matched. Non-empty. |
-| `ignoreCase` | `boolean` | No | Matches both `first` and `second` case-insensitively. Default `false`. |
-
-Unlike `swap`/`consistency`'s escaped-literal variants, `first` and `second` are raw user regex patterns (like `pattern`'s `tokens`).
-Missing, empty, or non-string `first`/`second` is a validation error, as is an unknown option key or a non-boolean `ignoreCase` — but `first`/`second` are **not** validated as compilable regexes at config-load time; an invalid regex in either one silently produces zero problems at runtime instead (same convention as `pattern`).
-
-Matches from overlapping scopes (e.g. `scope: [paragraph, sentence]`) are deduplicated by source position, so each occurrence of `first` is reported exactly once.
-
-The rule's `message` gets two positional `%s` substitutions, in this order: **1st = the offending `first` match, 2nd = the `second` pattern that was never introduced**, e.g. `'"%s" appears but "%s" was never introduced.'` → `'"TODO" appears but "DONE" was never introduced.'`.
-
-#### Capitalization Assertions (`capitalization`)
-Vale-parity `capitalization` check: flags (and — for four of its `match` values — fixes) a scoped segment whose text doesn't already match the required casing.
-`match` is one of `$title`, `$sentence`, `$lower`, `$upper`, or else a **custom regex** the whole segment text must satisfy.
-
-```yaml
-assertions:
-  capitalization:
-    match: $title
-    style: chicago # optional, default 'ap' — only affects $title
-    exceptions: [GitHub, iPhone]
-```
-
-| Option | Type | Required | Description |
-| --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| `match` | `string` | Yes | `$title`, `$sentence`, `$lower`, `$upper`, or a regex the whole segment text must satisfy. Non-empty. |
-| `style` | `'ap' \| 'chicago'` | No | Stopword list `$title` uses (see below). Default `'ap'`. Accepted alongside any `match`, but only has an effect on `$title` — a documented no-op elsewhere, not a validation error. |
-| `exceptions` | `string[]` | No | Words (or phrases — see below) kept in their EXACT as-written casing from this list, everywhere they appear — including the first/last word — overriding every other rule. Unioned with the [built-in technical proper-noun vocabulary](#built-in-technical-proper-noun-vocabulary) unless `builtinVocabulary: false`. |
-| `builtinVocabulary` | `boolean` | No | Default `true`. Whether [`TECHNICAL_PROPER_NOUNS`](#built-in-technical-proper-noun-vocabulary) is unioned into `exceptions`. Set `false` for a closed vocabulary of only this rule's own `exceptions`. |
-
-An `exceptions` entry containing whitespace or a dot (e.g. `Node.js`, `VS Code`) is matched as a whole PHRASE against the segment text — case-insensitively but otherwise literally, longest-match-first when phrases overlap — and preserved verbatim, instead of being looked up per word.
-
-Unknown option keys, a missing/empty `match`, an invalid `style`, a non-string-array `exceptions`, or a non-boolean `builtinVocabulary` are all validation errors.
-
-**`$title`** — AP or Chicago title case, implemented in `rules/scope/title-case.ts`'s `apTitleCase`/`chicagoTitleCase`:
-- The first and last word are **always** capitalized, regardless of any stopword list.
-- A hyphenated compound (e.g. `well-known`) runs **each hyphen part** through the same stopword test a standalone word gets for the active style — `well-known` → `Well-Known`, but `editor-in-chief` → `Editor-in-Chief` (`in` is a stopword in both styles).
-  The compound's first part always capitalizes when the compound opens the title, and its last part always capitalizes when the compound closes the title — e.g. `the new state-of-the-art` → `The New State-of-the-Art` (changed from the original simplification by product decision during execution, 2026-07-27).
-- A word already in ALL-CAPS (2+ letters, e.g. an acronym like `API`) is left exactly as written.
-- **AP** (default) lowercases articles (`a`, `an`, `the`), coordinating conjunctions (`and`, `but`, `or`, `nor`, `for`, `so`, `yet`), and prepositions of **3 letters or fewer** (`at`, `by`, `in`, `of`, `off`, `on`, `out`, `to`, `up`, `via`).
-- **Chicago** lowercases the same articles/conjunctions, plus **every** preposition regardless of length (the short ones above, plus `about`, `above`, `across`, `after`, `against`, `along`, `among`, `around`, `before`, `behind`, `below`, `between`, `during`, `through`, `toward`, `under`, `until`, `with`, `within`, `without`) —
-  e.g. Chicago lowercases `'...walking through the park'` → `'...walking through the Park'`, where AP capitalizes `Through`.
-
-**`$sentence`** — only the first word is capitalized; every other word is lowercased unless it's an `exceptions` entry (as-written) or already ALL-CAPS (left alone).
-
-**Word position counts a phrase exception as one word.**
-A *phrase* exception (one containing whitespace or a dot, like `Node.js` or `VS Code` — see the phrase-matching note above) is a single atomic token in the word sequence the `$`-styles case: it's emitted in its exact as-written form, and it **occupies a position**, so it never changes which word counts as first or last.
-With `exceptions: [VS Code]`, the already-correctly-cased heading `## VS Code actions for teams` produces no finding under `$sentence` (`actions` is the second word, not the first), and `## a guide to Node.js` becomes `## A Guide to Node.js` under `$title`/AP (`Node.js` is the last word, so `to` is a mid-title stopword and stays lowercase).
-Single-word exceptions (e.g. `GitHub`) behave as they always have — resolved by lookup rather than position.
-
-This used to be a bug, tracked as [Redocly/redocly#25610](https://github.com/Redocly/redocly/issues/25610) and fixed since:
-phrase exceptions were previously *masked out* of the text before word position was computed, which made a leading phrase promote the next word to sentence-initial under `$sentence`
-(`## VS Code actions for teams` was flagged, and under `fix: true` rewritten to `## VS Code Actions for teams`)
-and made a trailing phrase promote the preceding word to last-word position under `$title` (`a guide to Node.js` → `A Guide To Node.js`).
-If you had worked around it by rephrasing headings or by swapping in a custom regex `match`, neither is needed any more.
-See `rules/scope/title-case.ts`'s `recaseWords` for the tokenization that replaced the masking.
-
-**`$lower`** / **`$upper`** — the whole segment must be all-lowercase / all-uppercase respectively; no exceptions/ALL-CAPS carve-out (unconditional, matching Vale's own `$lower`/`$upper`).
-
-**Custom regex** — the whole segment text must satisfy the pattern.
-**Detection-only**: unlike the four `$`-styles, a failing regex is flagged but never auto-fixed, even though the rule itself is registered fixable.
-Like `pattern`'s `tokens`, an invalid regex is caught and silently produces zero problems rather than crashing the run.
-
-**Inline code is frozen.**
-A backtick-delimited span in the segment text (e.g. a heading like ``'the `configFile` option'``) is treated like an exception: its content is never flagged or rewritten by any of the four `$`-styles, even if it would otherwise land on the first/last word.
-
-**Fixable** for `$title`/`$sentence`/`$lower`/`$upper` only, one segment-wide edit per flagged segment.
-A **multi-line** segment (e.g. a soft-wrapped paragraph) is skipped entirely under these four styles — neither a problem nor a fix — since a `Fix` can only rewrite a single line; a custom regex `match` has no such restriction and still checks (and reports) multi-line segments, since it never produces a fix regardless of segment span.
-
-The rule's `message` gets two positional `%s` substitutions, in this order: **1st = the segment's own text (first line only), 2nd = the `match` value itself** (e.g. `'$title'`, or the literal regex source for custom-regex mode), e.g. `'"%s" should use %s capitalization.'` → `'"the great escape" should use $title capitalization.'`.
-
-#### Metric Assertions (`metric`)
-Scores the document's prose with one of six published readability formulas and flags the file once when the score falls outside `[min, max]`.
-
-```yaml
-assertions:
-  metric:
-    formula: flesch-reading-ease
-    min: 30
-```
-
-| Option | Type | Required | Description |
-| --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| `formula` | `string` | Yes | One of `flesch-reading-ease`, `flesch-kincaid-grade`, `gunning-fog`, `smog`, `coleman-liau`, `automated-readability`. |
-| `min` | `number` | At least one of `min`/`max` | Minimum acceptable score; a lower score is a violation. |
-| `max` | `number` | At least one of `min`/`max` | Maximum acceptable score; a higher score is a violation. |
-
-Omitting both `min` and `max`, an unrecognized `formula`, or an unknown option key are all validation errors — a metric assertion with no bound can never report anything, and an unrecognized formula would otherwise reach the scoring engine's own exhaustive-switch failure at lint time instead of at config validation.
-
-**Always summary-scoped.**
-Unlike every other assertion above, `metric` does not honor a configurable `scope:` — readability is a property of the WHOLE document's prose, not something a selector could sensibly narrow (a readability score isn't meaningful for one paragraph in isolation the way an `occurrence` count is).
-Config validation forces every `metric` rule to `scope: summary`.
-Omit `scope` on a `metric` rule (or write `scope: summary` explicitly); configuring any other scope prints a warning (`metric is always summary-scoped; ignoring configured scope ...`) and applies `summary` behavior anyway.
-Text from overlapping segments (e.g. a list nested inside a blockquote) is deduplicated by source position, same as `consistency`/`conditional` above.
-
-**What the score reads.**
-The metric scores flowing prose the way standard readability tools do: `paragraph`, `list-item`, `blockquote`, `table.cell`, and `table.header` text counts; **headings are excluded**, and `code`, `frontmatter`, `html`, `comment`, `alt`, and `link` content is never counted.
-Every block that does not end in terminal punctuation ends a sentence — an unpunctuated list item is one sentence, not a fragment fused into its neighbors.
-Without that rule, a run of bullets scored as one enormous "sentence" and pushed Flesch reading ease far below zero; with it, scores line up with other readability tools within syllable-heuristic differences.
-
-**Non-prose stripping.**
-Before scoring, each segment's text also has Markdoc tag-marker spans (`{% tag attr="x" %}`, `{% /tag %}`, and the `{%- ... -%}` trim variant) and backtick-delimited inline code spans stripped out — neither is readable prose, and both otherwise skew word/syllable counts.
-Prose between two block-tag markers still counts (only the marker spans themselves are removed); a paragraph consisting only of tag markers contributes nothing.
-Multi-backtick delimiters (`` ``like this`` ``) are handled conservatively as a simple open-run/close-run pair match, not a full CommonMark-correct implementation.
-
-**Detection-only** (not fixable) — there is no single edit that would "fix" a readability score.
-Reports at most **one** problem per file, always at `line: 1, column: 1` (there is no single source position a whole-document score belongs to) — never divided by zero: a file with no prose at all (empty, or only code/frontmatter) is never flagged, regardless of `min`/`max`.
-
-The rule's `message` is substituted against up to **four** values, in this order: **1st = the formula name, 2nd = the computed score, 3rd = `min` (or `-∞` if unset), 4th = `max` (or `∞` if unset)** — e.g. the internal fallback `'Readability (%s) is %s; expected between %s and %s.'` → `'Readability (flesch-reading-ease) is 42.1; expected between 60 and ∞.'`.
-The `message` validation cap is per-assertion: a `metric` rule's `message` may use up to **4** `%s` placeholders (one per value above), while every other assertion stays capped at 2.
-Fewer placeholders than values is fine — substitution is positional, so a 2-slot message receives the leading values (formula name, then score).
-
-<!-- recheck-disable-next-line no-gerund-headings -->
-#### Spelling Assertions (`spelling`)
-Vale-parity `spelling` check (detection-only): tokenizes each scoped segment's text into words and flags any word an [nspell](https://github.com/wooorm/nspell)/Hunspell speller doesn't recognize, with up to three suggested corrections.
-
-```yaml
-assertions:
-  spelling:
-    vocab: [Redocly, Reunite]
-    ignore: ['\bAcme\w*']
-```
-
-| Option | Type | Required | Description |
-| --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| `dictionary` | `string` | No | Base path (WITHOUT the `.aff`/`.dic` extension) to a custom Hunspell dictionary pair, e.g. `dictionary: dict/custom` reads `dict/custom.aff` and `dict/custom.dic`. Resolved relative to `process.cwd()` (where the CLI is invoked from) unless absolute. Omit to use the bundled default English dictionary. |
-| `vocab` | `string[]` | No | Extra known-good words, matched case-insensitively; never flagged even when the speller itself doesn't recognize them (product names, jargon, etc.). Unioned with the [built-in technical proper-noun vocabulary](#built-in-technical-proper-noun-vocabulary) unless `builtinVocabulary: false`. |
-| `ignore` | `string[]` | No | Regex patterns; a token matching ANY of them is never flagged, e.g. `['\bAcme\w*']` to allow every inflection of a brand name. An invalid pattern is silently ignored, same convention as `pattern`'s `tokens`. |
-| `builtinVocabulary` | `boolean` | No | Default `true`. Whether [`TECHNICAL_PROPER_NOUNS`](#built-in-technical-proper-noun-vocabulary) is unioned into the accepted-word set alongside `vocab`. A multi-token entry (`Node.js`, `VS Code`) is split into its individual words, each accepted separately — correct for a per-word spell check, unlike `capitalization`'s whole-phrase matching. Set `false` for a closed vocabulary of only this rule's own `vocab`. |
-
-All options are optional — an empty `spelling: {}` is valid (default dictionary, no extra vocabulary, no ignore patterns, built-in vocabulary on).
-Unknown option keys, a non-string/empty-string `dictionary`, a `vocab`/`ignore` entry that isn't a non-empty string, or a non-boolean `builtinVocabulary` are all validation errors.
-
-**Optional peer dependencies — install to enable.**
-`nspell` and its default dictionary (`dictionary-en`) are **optional peer dependencies**: installing `@redocly/recheck` itself pulls in **neither**.
-Enable `spelling` with:
-
-```bash
-npm i nspell dictionary-en
-```
-
-...or, if every `spelling` rule in your config sets its own `dictionary` path, you only need the speller itself (the bundled dictionary is never touched):
-
-```bash
-npm i nspell
-```
-
-If a config enables `spelling` without the required peer(s) installed, `recheck --validate-config` fails with an actionable error naming the exact command above — never a bare `Cannot find module 'nspell'` surfacing for the first time at lint time.
-
-**Dictionaries load lazily.**
-Neither `nspell` nor `dictionary-en` is imported unless some rule in your config actually has a `spelling` assertion — a config without one never touches either package, at either `validate` or lint time.
-The loaded speller (including the ~500KB parsed dictionary) is cached per dictionary source for the process's lifetime, so every file/rule sharing the same `dictionary` (or the shared default) reuses one instance rather than reloading it per call.
-
-**Word tokenization.**
-Words are matched with `/\p{L}+(?:['’]\p{L}+)?/gu` — Unicode letter runs, with an optional apostrophe-joined suffix so contractions (`don't`, `it's`) tokenize as one word.
-A token is skipped (never checked) when it's in `vocab` (case-insensitively), matches any `ignore` pattern, is ALL-CAPS (2+ letters, e.g. an acronym) — matching the same ALL-CAPS carve-out `$title`/`$sentence` capitalization use — or is digit-adjacent (see below).
-Because `\p{L}` can never match a digit, a token touching one is never captured WHOLE by the tokenizer in the first place: a digit-adjacent identifier like `config2` still splits into a letter-only fragment (`config`) as its own regex match.
-Rather than checking that fragment like any other word, a digit-adjacency guard looks at the character immediately before and after each match and skips it when either neighbor is a digit — so common digit-bearing identifiers (`sha256` → `sha`, `utf8` → `utf`, `oauth2` → `oauth`, `es6` → `es`, `log4j` → both `log` and `j`, `2fast` → `fast`) are no longer flagged as false-positive misspellings.
-This mitigates, but doesn't eliminate, every false positive from the tokenizer's inability to capture digits at all — a token entirely surrounded by non-digit characters is still checked normally, so a genuine misspelling elsewhere in the same sentence is still flagged.
-
-**Code is never spell-checked, by construction of scope segmentation — not something this assertion special-cases.**
-A fenced or indented code block is its own `scope: 'code'` segment, entirely distinct from `paragraph`/`heading`/etc.; scoping `spelling` to prose (the common case, e.g. `scope: paragraph` or an array of prose scopes) means `ctx.segments` never contains one.
-A backtick-delimited **inline** code span, though, remains embedded as raw text inside a prose segment's own content (verified directly against the extractor) — those spans are masked out before tokenizing, the same length-preserving technique `capitalization`'s backtick-span freezing uses, so positions of any remaining flagged word stay exact.
-Scoping `spelling` to `all`/`raw` (or leaving `scope` at its default) checks the whole raw file, literal code included — same default-scope behavior every other native assertion (`swap`, `pattern`, ...) has.
-
-**Detection-only** — no `fix`.
-The rule's `message` gets two positional `%s` substitutions, in this order: **1st = the unrecognized word, 2nd = a suggestion suffix** — either `''` (zero suggestions) or `' — did you mean: a, b, c?'` (one to three, comma-joined) — e.g. the internal fallback `'Unknown word "%s"%s'` → `'Unknown word "wrold" — did you mean: wold, world?'`.
-
-#### Built-in technical proper-noun vocabulary
-
-`capitalization` and `spelling` both ship a built-in list of common technical/product proper nouns — `TECHNICAL_PROPER_NOUNS`, exported from `@redocly/recheck`'s public API (`import { TECHNICAL_PROPER_NOUNS } from '@redocly/recheck'`) so you can read or extend it yourself.
-It exists so a config that turns on sentence-case headings or spelling doesn't immediately need to hand-list the same 15+ mixed-case technology names every project already has to deal with (`OpenAPI`, `npm`, `Node.js`, `VS Code`, ...).
-
-**On by default**, per rule:
-- `capitalization` unions it into `exceptions` (so a listed name keeps its as-written casing under every `$`-style, including `$sentence`).
-- `spelling` unions it into `vocab` (so those words are never reported as misspellings), splitting any multi-token entry into its individual words first — a per-word spell check has no way to accept a whole phrase atomically the way `capitalization`'s phrase matching does.
-- Either union is opted out of independently with that rule's own `builtinVocabulary: false`, restoring strict pre-built-in behavior (a closed vocabulary of only what you list yourself).
-- Your own `exceptions`/`vocab` on the same rule **compose** with the built-ins rather than replacing them — unlike a preset-shipped list on the same rule key, which a same-key override *would* replace entirely (see [`extends` presets](#extends-presets) above).
-  This is exactly how [`recheck/prose`](#extends-presets)'s `capitalization` rule gets its protection for common technical nouns without shipping any `exceptions` of its own.
-
-**Multi-token entries work.**
-An entry containing a dot or whitespace (`Node.js`, `VS Code`, `Visual Studio Code`, `GitHub Actions`, `Google Cloud`, `Azure DevOps`) is matched by `capitalization` as a whole phrase against the segment text (longest-match-first, case-insensitive but otherwise literal) and preserved verbatim — not looked up per word, which is what a single-token entry like `GitHub` still gets.
-
-**Inclusion bar** (why an entry is — or isn't — in the list, and the bar to clear before proposing one): an entry qualifies if it's an unambiguous technology, product, or company name whose exception listing wouldn't *weaken* capitalization/spelling checks — concretely, its lowercase form must not be a legitimate English word in its own right.
-That covers ordinary Title-Case brand names (`Android`, `Kubernetes`, `Redocly`) just as much as entries with an internal capital (`OpenAPI`, `GraphQL`), a dot (`Node.js`), or forced lowercase (`npm`) — `$sentence` lowercases every non-first word regardless of how "ordinary" its casing looks, so plain Title-Case names need protection too.
-Excluded, deliberately:
-- **Pure ALL-CAPS acronyms** (`JWT`, `YAML`) — already handled structurally by the ALL-CAPS carve-out both `capitalization` and `spelling` apply, so listing them adds maintenance for no behavior change.
-  Note this is narrower than "looks like an acronym": `OAuth` and `AsyncAPI` are mixed-case, not pure ALL-CAPS, and are in the list.
-- **Terms with legitimate lowercase prose usage** — generic English (`cloud`, `apps`),
-  words that are ALSO ordinary English words even though they're Redocly product names too (`Realm`, `Replay`, `Respect` — listing them would force-capitalize ordinary usage like "we respect your privacy"; `Node` — the common technical noun, superseded by the `Node.js` phrase entry for the platform specifically),
-  and — caught by a later audit, not the original pass — ordinary brand-shaped words with a real dictionary meaning (`Chrome`, `Markdown`, `Postman`, `Prettier`, `Safari`, `Swagger`, `Windows`; see `src/data/proper-nouns.ts`'s header for each one's disqualifying lowercase usage).
-  A few real dictionary words (`Android`, `Docker`, `TypeScript`) were judged rare enough in ordinary lowercase usage to keep anyway — a documented, deliberate risk-acceptance, not an oversight.
-  List your own such names in your rule's own `exceptions`/`vocab`, which compose with this list as described above.
-
-Two automated tests in `src/data/__tests__/proper-nouns.test.ts` enforce this:
-one checks every entry's shape against the bar above — no pure ALL-CAPS, and, mechanically, no single-token entry whose lowercase form the REAL spelling dictionary (`dictionary-en`/`nspell`, the same pair `spelling` loads at runtime) accepts as a legitimate English word, unless it's named in an explicit accepted-risk allowlist —
-plus alphabetization and no duplicates.
-A round-trip guard separately drives every entry through the real `capitalization` and `spelling` rules and fails the suite if any entry can't actually be protected — the list can't silently regress into decoration.
-
-#### Length Assertions (`length`)
-Recheck-original, detection-only check: measures each scoped segment's size — in characters, words, or sentences — and flags a segment whose measurement falls outside `[min, max]`.
-Unlike `metric` (always whole-document), `length` honors whatever `scope` the rule configures — e.g. `scope: alt` to cap image alt text, or `scope: sentence` to cap sentence length in words.
-[`recheck/google`](#extends-presets) ships this for the guide's stated "fewer than 26 words per sentence" limit (`google/sentence-length`); Microsoft's 150-character alt-text cap is the other published example of this shape.
-
-```yaml
-assertions:
-  length:
-    unit: characters
-    max: 150
-```
-
-| Option | Type | Required | Description |
-| --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| `unit` | `'characters' \| 'words' \| 'sentences'` | Yes | What `min`/`max` count: raw character length, whitespace-delimited words (the same tokenizer `metric` uses for its own word counts — see `metrics/statistics.ts`'s `tokenizeWords`), or sentences via the shared `splitSentences` sentence-boundary logic (`scopes/sentences.ts`). |
-| `min` | `number` | At least one of `min`/`max` | Minimum allowed size; a smaller segment is a violation. |
-| `max` | `number` | At least one of `min`/`max` | Maximum allowed size; a larger segment is a violation. |
-
-Omitting both `min` and `max`, a missing/unrecognized `unit`, or an unknown option key are all validation errors — same reasoning as `occurrence`/`metric` above.
-An inverted range (`min` > `max`) is also an error.
-
-**Detection-only** (not fixable) — there is no single edit that would resize a segment to fit.
-Reports at most one problem per flagged segment, at the segment's own `startLine`/`startColumn`.
-
-The rule's `message` gets three positional `%s` substitutions, in this order: **1st = the segment's measured size, 2nd = the unit name, 3rd = the bound that was violated** (`min` or `max`, whichever applied), e.g. the internal fallback `'Segment is %s %s; at most %s allowed'` → `'Segment is 151 characters; at most 150 allowed'`.
-The message validation cap for `length` is **3** placeholders (one per value above), same reasoning as `metric`'s 4-cap.
-
-#### Built-in Prose Assertions
-Beyond `swap`, `pattern`, `occurrence`, `repetition`, `consistency`, `conditional`, `capitalization`, `metric`, `spelling`, and `length` above, Recheck ships a small set of native prose/format checks:
-- `semantic-line-breaks` - Semantic line break validation ✅ **Fixable**
-- `max-image-size` - Oversized image detection
-
-Three of the assertions above (`repetition`, `consistency`, `capitalization`) are bundled, pre-configured, in the [`recheck/prose`](#extends-presets) preset,
-and `capitalization`/`length` are also used by [`recheck/google`](#extends-presets) (sentence-case headings and list items, and a sentence-length cap);
-the remaining four (`occurrence`, `conditional`, `metric`, `spelling`) are documented [opt-ins](#opt-in-prose-assertions) with copy-paste snippets, not shipped in any preset by default.
-
-### Recheck-original structural rules
-
-Seven rules have no markdownlint counterpart, so they sit outside the 53-rule parity set
-(and outside the parity comparison).
-All seven are **detection-only** (`fix: false`).
-The
-canonical list is `RECHECK_ORIGINAL_TOKEN_RULE_NAMES` in `src/rules/token/index.ts`.
-
-The table below covers five of them.
-The other two — `markdoc-unknown-tag` and
-`markdoc-attributes` — need a tag schema to check anything, so they are documented with
-the [`recheck/markdoc`](#extends-presets) preset instead.
-
-| Rule | Flags | Why |
-| --- | --- | --- |
-| `no-empty-headings` | A heading whose text content is empty (a bare `#`, or markup that renders to nothing such as `## <span></span>`) | An empty heading still lands in the document outline and in screen-reader heading navigation. Inline code counts as content, so `` # `config.yaml` `` is fine. |
-| `no-duplicate-link-destinations` | The second and later links to one destination when the link **text** differs from the first occurrence's | Screen-reader users listing a page's links hear one target described inconsistently; the texts also drift apart over time. Repeating the *same* text for the same destination is ordinary prose and is not flagged. Resolves reference links through their definition. |
-| `list-length` | A list (ordered or unordered) with fewer than `min` items (default 2) or more than `max` items (no default — unbounded unless set) | A single-item list usually reads better as a plain sentence, and a very long list asks readers to hold too many parallel items in mind. Every list is evaluated independently, including nested sublists — a short sublist is flagged even when its parent list is long enough. |
-| `markdoc-syntax` | A grammar-level Markdoc tag error — a malformed span, an unquoted "bareword" attribute/primary value, or a close tag carrying attributes | These are invalid under real Markdoc's own grammar regardless of any tag schema, so the rule fires on custom/unknown tags and under `schema: false` alike. See the [`recheck/markdoc`](#extends-presets) preset bullet below for the full behavior and a config example. |
-| `markdoc-pairing` | An unclosed, orphaned, or interleaved (crossed) Markdoc tag pair, or a schema-declared self-closing tag written with a close it must not have | Same grammar-level scope as `markdoc-syntax` — see the [`recheck/markdoc`](#extends-presets) preset bullet below. |
-
-The first three rules are **opt-in — not shipped in any preset**; configure them
-individually as shown below.
-
-`markdoc-syntax` and `markdoc-pairing` work the other way around: they ship only inside
-the [`recheck/markdoc`](#extends-presets) preset, and both need `markdoc: true` (or the
-object form) to ever see a Markdoc tag token.
-Naming either rule key on its own, without
-the flag, validates but can never report anything — and you get no warning about it,
-because the stale-config warning fires on `extends` containing `"recheck/markdoc"`
-(`warnStaleMarkdocPreset` in `config/validate.ts`), not on individual rule keys.
-The
-preset bullet below covers both rules' full behavior with the flag on, plus a config
-example.
-
-```yaml
-recheck/empty-headings:
-  severity: error
-  message: 'Headings should have text content.'
-  assertions:
-    no-empty-headings: {}
-
-recheck/link-text-consistency:
-  severity: warn
-  message: 'Link destination "%s" is already linked by different text.'
-  assertions:
-    no-duplicate-link-destinations: {}
-
-recheck/list-length:
-  severity: warn
-  message: 'List has %s item(s).'
-  assertions:
-    list-length: { min: 2, max: 10 }
-```
-
-For markdown structure/format rules (headings, lists, links, tables, whitespace, and 49 more), see [Markdownlint parity](#markdownlint-parity) below — `no-trailing-spaces`, `no-hard-tabs`, `line-length`, `ul-style` (bullet style), `no-duplicate-heading`, and `link-fragments` are all part of that 53-rule set, not this native list.
-(`max-line-length`, `bullet-style`, `no-duplicate-headings`, and `no-broken-fragment-links` were pre-parity native ids for those same rules; they were removed rather than kept as aliases — see [Migrate from markdownlint](#migrate-from-markdownlint).)
-
-### Enhanced Scope Support
-
-The `scope` field supports a string, an array (OR'd together), and a `~negation` / `&`-conjunction
-selector syntax:
-```yaml
-scope: all              # Apply to all content (default)
-scope: raw              # Apply to raw file content, bypassing scope segmentation
-scope: summary          # Apply to the document's prose: paragraph, heading, list-item, blockquote, and table-cell text (alias: default)
-scope: sentence         # Apply to sentences only
-scope: paragraph        # Apply to paragraphs only
-scope: heading          # Apply to all headings
-scope: code             # Apply to code blocks only
-scope: list-item        # Apply to list item text
-scope: blockquote       # Apply to blockquote text
-scope: table.header     # Apply to table header cells
-scope: table.cell       # Apply to table body cells
-scope: markdoc.tag      # Apply to Markdoc tag spans (`{% ... %}`), requires markdoc: true
-scope: frontmatter      # Apply to YAML frontmatter
-scope: html             # Apply to raw HTML blocks
-scope: comment          # Apply to HTML comments
-scope: alt              # Apply to image alt text
-scope: link             # Apply to link text
-scope:                  # Apply to specific heading levels
-  - heading.h1
-  - heading.h2
-  - heading.h3
-scope:                  # Selector syntax: '~' negates, '&' conjoins
-  - "~blockquote & ~heading"
-```
-
-### Markdoc-aware linting (`markdoc: true`)
-
-Opt-in — off by default, since Liquid/Jinja templates use the same `{% %}` delimiters and would otherwise get mistokenized as Markdoc:
-
-```yaml
-markdoc: true   # shorthand for `{ schema: 'realm' }`
-```
-
-Writing *about* Markdoc syntax rather than using it (docs like this one, a tutorial, a changelog entry)?
-Wrap the literal `{% ... %}` in a code span — `` `{% partial /%}` `` — instead of leaving it bare in prose.
-Code spans never tokenize as Markdoc tags whether the flag is on or off, so that's the escape hatch.
-
-#### Object form: choosing or extending the tag schema
-
-`markdoc: true` is shorthand for the common case.
-The object form adds two things the
-boolean can't express: turning the schema-aware checks off while keeping tag tokenization,
-and layering a project's own custom tags over the built-in schema.
-
-```yaml
-markdoc:
-  schema: realm        # required -- 'realm' (the built-in schema below) or `false`; there is no default if this key is omitted
-  extend:               # optional: your own tags, merged over the base schema
-    tags:
-      myCustomTag:
-        selfClosing: true
-        attributes:
-          level:
-            type: string
-            enum: [info, warning, danger]
-            required: true
-```
-
-- **`schema: realm`** — the same built-in schema `markdoc: true` uses: `@markdoc/markdoc`'s
-  own built-in tags composed with `@redocly/theme`'s tag definitions.
-  It's generated from a
-  theme build rather than hand-written, and a test fails if it drifts out of sync (see
-  [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for the regeneration command).
-  This is what most
-  projects want, and what the four [`recheck/markdoc`](#extends-presets) rules validate
-  against by default.
-- **`schema: false`** — tokenization and tag **pairing** still run, so `markdoc.tag` scope,
-  prose-scope exclusion, fix protection, and `markdoc-syntax`/`markdoc-pairing`'s
-  grammar-level checks all still work.
-  Only the two schema-dependent rules
-  (`markdoc-unknown-tag`, `markdoc-attributes`) go inert, since there's no schema left for
-  "unknown tag" or "missing required attribute" to mean anything against.
-  Use this if you
-  write Markdoc tags but don't have (or don't want) a schema to validate them against.
-- **`extend.tags`** — merges your own tag definitions over the base schema.
-  On a name
-  collision the merge is a **whole-tag replace**, matching how Markdoc's own config
-  composition works, not a per-attribute deep merge.
-  Declare your project's custom tags
-  here (for example, a docs site's own `@theme/markdoc/schema.ts` overrides) so
-  `markdoc-unknown-tag` and `markdoc-attributes` validate against your real tag surface
-  instead of flagging every custom tag as unknown.
-  Under `schema: false` there is no base
-  to merge over, so `extend` does nothing.
-- **`extend.tagsFile`** — the same tag-definition surface as `extend.tags`, but sourced from
-  a separate YAML file instead of written inline into `recheck.yaml`.
-  This is the shape
-  [`recheck --generate-markdoc-schema`](#generate-a-tagsfile-recheck---generate-markdoc-schema) below generates,
-  so a project with tags defined in TypeScript (a `@theme/markdoc/schema.ts` module, say)
-  never hand-transcribes them into YAML.
-  ```yaml
-  markdoc:
-    schema: realm
-    extend:
-      tagsFile: ./recheck-markdoc-tags.yaml
-  ```
-  - **Resolution**: the path is resolved relative to the directory containing the
-    `recheck.yaml`/`recheck.yml` that names it — never the process's current working
-    directory — so `tagsFile: ./tags.yaml` always reads the file next to that config,
-    wherever `recheck` is invoked from.
-  - **Precedence**: tags merge in the order built-in schema → `tagsFile` → inline
-    `extend.tags`, each layer a whole-tag replace on a name collision (same rule as
-    `extend.tags` above).
-    `tags` and `tagsFile` can both be set on the same `extend` block;
-    `extend` with neither key is rejected by config validation as a likely no-op.
-  - **Errors are fatal to the whole run, not a silent markdoc downgrade.**
-    A `tagsFile` that
-    doesn't exist, isn't valid YAML, isn't a YAML map, or contains a tag entry with an
-    invalid shape all fail `recheck`/`recheck --validate-config` outright
-    (`Configuration validation failed!`, the same failure every other structurally-invalid
-    config produces) — markdoc checking is never quietly switched off while the rest of the
-    config keeps running.
-
-Turning `markdoc` on (either form) changes how every prose rule sees a Markdoc tag, not just `markdoc.tag` (above):
-
-- **Prose scopes exclude the tag itself.**
-  `paragraph`, `heading`, `list-item`, `blockquote`, and `table.header`/`table.cell` all blank a tag's own `{% ... %}` span out of their content before any rule runs — a `swap`/`pattern`/`capitalization` match can't fire on the tag's syntax, and a `length`/`metric` count doesn't include it.
-  The blanking is position-preserving (same-width spaces, never a deletion), so real text on either side of a tag keeps its exact line and column.
-- **A segment with no prose left isn't emitted at all.**
-  A heading or table cell whose entire text IS a tag (`# {% #anchor %}`) produces no `heading.h1`/`table.cell` segment — there's nothing for a heading or cell rule to check, so none fires on it.
-- **`--fix` never rewrites a Markdoc tag's bytes.**
-  Every proposed fix is checked against the document's tag spans before it's applied:
-  one that doesn't touch a tag goes through untouched, one that fully covers a tag with a same-length replacement gets the tag spliced back in,
-  and anything that would change a tag's length or split it in half is withheld instead — a withheld fix is reported (`skippedFixes` in the [Library API](#library-api)), not silently swallowed.
-- **Two CommonMark constructs Markdoc doesn't have stop being recognized.**
-  Markdoc's own tokenizer disables indented code blocks and setext headings (the `Title\n===\n` underline form) unconditionally, which is how Realm renders, so `markdoc: true` disables them too — and only while the flag is on:
-  - A 4+-space-indented block that would otherwise be an indented code block parses as ordinary content instead: a paragraph, list, or fence, whichever the un-indented text would have produced.
-    This shows up most with a block-positioned tag followed immediately by more indented lines, and with genuinely indented example text.
-    Realm renders both as prose, so matching that is the intent.
-  - A text line immediately followed by a `---`/`===` line, with no blank line between, no longer forms a heading.
-    This also fixes a common false positive: a tag on its own line (`{% table %}`, say) directly followed by a `---` line is ordinary Markdoc table-row syntax, but without the flag it reads as a setext heading whose text is the tag itself.
-    With the flag on, the tag is its own token and can't merge into a paragraph that `---` would complete.
-  - Practical effect: on documents using either construct, expect `heading-style`, `blanks-around-headings`, `capitalization`, and `code-block-style` findings to shift when you first turn the flag on.
-    They are moving to match how Markdoc actually renders, not regressing.
-
-### Generate a tagsFile: `recheck --generate-markdoc-schema`
-
-Projects that define their own Markdoc tags in TypeScript — a `@theme/markdoc/schema.ts`
-module exporting a `tags` map, the shape both `docs/realm` and `docs/intranet` use in this
-monorepo — can generate an `extend.tagsFile` YAML file from it instead of hand-transcribing
-each tag's schema:
-
-```bash
-recheck --generate-markdoc-schema --from path/to/schema.ts --out recheck-markdoc-tags.yaml
-```
-
-- **`--from <path>`** (repeatable) — a project schema module to extract tags from, resolved
-  relative to the current working directory.
-  The module must export `tags` (named or on a
-  `default` object) mapping tag name to a Markdoc tag config; only the statically-checkable
-  facets (`selfClosing`, and each attribute's `type`/`required`/`default`/`enum`) are
-  extracted — anything richer (a custom attribute class, a `validate()` function) is written
-  out as `dynamic: true`, the same reduction the built-in `realm` schema goes through.
-  Pass
-  `--from` more than once to merge several modules; an identical tag definition repeated
-  across modules is fine, but two modules disagreeing about the same tag's shape fails the
-  command rather than letting flag order silently pick one.
-- **`--out <path>`** — where to write the generated YAML, resolved relative to the current
-  working directory.
-  The file opens with a generated-file header naming its source module(s)
-  and the exact command to regenerate it.
-- **`--check`** — verifies the output file matches what a fresh generation would produce,
-  without writing it: exits `0` and prints `<path> is up to date.` when it matches, exits `1`
-  and prints a one-line diagnosis (file missing, or stale) otherwise.
-  This is what a CI drift
-  check should call — see this repo's own wiring below.
-
-**TypeScript sources need a loader.**
-`recheck --generate-markdoc-schema` dynamic-`import()`s each
-`--from` module directly; running the command under plain `node` against a `.ts` module
-fails with an actionable one-line error naming the fix, rather than a raw stack trace:
-
-```text
-could not import "path/to/schema.ts" — TypeScript sources need a loader, e.g.: pnpm exec tsx
-node_modules/.bin/recheck --generate-markdoc-schema … (Cannot find module '<a module your schema
-imports>' imported from '<path to your schema.ts>')
-```
-
-(wrapped above for line length; the real message is one line.
-The parenthetical is Node's
-own error and its shape varies: for a schema whose extensionless internal imports plain
-`node` cannot resolve — the common case — the "imported from" path is your schema file
-itself; for a `--from` path that doesn't exist at all it is recheck's own command module.)
-
-Run it through `tsx` instead (directly, or via a package script that already wraps it, like
-this repo's `recheck:markdoc-tags` below) — a plain `.js` schema module needs no loader and
-works under either.
-
-**Experimental, pending a canonical manifest.**
-This command is an interim bridge, not a
-long-term source of truth: [issue #25666](https://github.com/Redocly/redocly/issues/25666)
-tracks Realm itself emitting one canonical, statics-only Markdoc tag/schema manifest, which
-would let this generator (and its drift check) retire in favor of reading that manifest
-directly.
-Until then, `recheck --generate-markdoc-schema` is the supported way to keep a project's
-`tagsFile` in sync with its real tag schema modules.
-
-#### Worked example: this repo's own setup
-
-This monorepo's root `recheck.yaml` uses `extend.tagsFile` to pull in the custom tags from
-both `docs/realm` and `docs/intranet`'s own `@theme/markdoc/schema.ts` modules:
-
-```yaml
-markdoc:
-  schema: realm
-  extend:
-    tagsFile: ./recheck-markdoc-tags.yaml
-```
-
-The committed `recheck-markdoc-tags.yaml` is generated, not hand-written — its header names
-the exact regenerate command:
-
-```yaml
-# Generated file — do not hand-edit.
-# Source module(s): ../../docs/realm/@theme/markdoc/schema.ts, ../../docs/intranet/@theme/markdoc/schema.ts
-# Regenerate: recheck --generate-markdoc-schema --from ../../docs/realm/@theme/markdoc/schema.ts --from ../../docs/intranet/@theme/markdoc/schema.ts --out ../../recheck-markdoc-tags.yaml
-```
-
-The root `package.json` wraps that same invocation in one script, run from
-`packages/recheck` via `tsx` (the schema modules are TypeScript source, see above):
-
-```bash
-pnpm run recheck:markdoc-tags            # regenerate recheck-markdoc-tags.yaml
-pnpm run recheck:markdoc-tags --check    # verify it's current; exits 1 on drift
-```
-
-**Do not add `--` before `--check`.**
-`pnpm run recheck:markdoc-tags -- --check` looks
-equivalent but isn't: the script itself already ends in `pnpm --filter @redocly/recheck exec
-tsx dist/cli.js --generate-markdoc-schema …`, and pnpm's own `--` forwarding through that nested `exec`
-makes yargs read `--check` as a positional argument instead of the `--check` flag — the
-command then silently regenerates the file and always exits `0`, defeating the whole point
-of a drift check.
-Always call it as `pnpm run recheck:markdoc-tags --check`, with no extra
-`--`.
-
-CI runs exactly that check on every PR, as its own step in
-`.github/workflows/recheck.yml` (after the package is built):
-
-```yaml
-- name: Markdoc tags file is current
-  run: pnpm run recheck:markdoc-tags --check
-```
-
-If it fails, regenerate locally with `pnpm run recheck:markdoc-tags` and commit the result.
-
-### Rule Severity Levels
-
-Rules can be configured with different severity levels:
-
-- **`off`**: Disable the rule completely
-- **`info`**: Informational messages (exit code 0)
-- **`warn`**: Warning messages (exit code 0)
-- **`error`**: Error messages (exit code 1)
-
-### Auto-Fix Safety
-
-Fixability is declared by each assertion, not by config — a rule can be automatically corrected if and only if its assertion implements a `fix()`.
-The `autoFixable` config key was removed — rules declare fixability; use `fix: false` to opt out.
-A config that still sets `autoFixable` now fails validation with an unknown-property error.
-To opt a rule out of auto-fixing, set `fix: false` on it instead.
-
-The `enabled` config key was likewise removed — it was schema-legal but never actually consulted by the engine (use `severity: off` to disable a rule).
-A config that still sets `enabled` now fails validation with an unknown-property error.
-
-- ✅ **Fixable native assertions**: `swap`, `semantic-line-breaks`, `repetition`, `consistency`, `capitalization` (except its custom-regex `match` mode, which is always detection-only)
-- ❌ **Not fixable native assertions**: `pattern`, `max-image-size`, `occurrence`, `conditional`, `metric`, `spelling`
-- Of the 53 markdownlint-parity rules, 33 are fixable — see the [rule table](#markdownlint-parity) for the full per-rule breakdown (includes `no-trailing-spaces`, `no-hard-tabs`, `ul-style`, and more).
-
-## Markdownlint parity
-
-Recheck ports all 53 of [markdownlint](https://github.com/DavidAnson/markdownlint)'s built-in rules (MD001-MD060, minus retired ids) as native `assertions`, verified against upstream by a differential parity harness (see [Parity with markdownlint](#parity-with-markdownlint) below).
-Enable the full set with one line:
-
-```yaml
-extends: [recheck/markdown]
-```
-
-Each rule is available as its own `recheck/<name>` assertion id, so you can also enable a subset directly:
-
-```yaml
-recheck/heading-increment:
-  severity: error
-  message: 'Heading levels should only increment by one level at a time.'
-  assertions:
-    heading-increment: {}
-```
-
-| Rule name | MD id | Fixable |
-| --- | --- | --- |
-| `heading-increment` | MD001 | No |
-| `heading-style` | MD003 | No |
-| `ul-style` | MD004 | Yes |
-| `list-indent` | MD005 | Yes |
-| `ul-indent` | MD007 | Yes |
-| `no-trailing-spaces` | MD009 | Yes |
-| `no-hard-tabs` | MD010 | Yes |
-| `no-reversed-links` | MD011 | Yes |
-| `no-multiple-blanks` | MD012 | Yes |
-| `line-length` | MD013 | No |
-| `commands-show-output` | MD014 | Yes |
-| `no-missing-space-atx` | MD018 | Yes |
-| `no-multiple-space-atx` | MD019 | Yes |
-| `no-missing-space-closed-atx` | MD020 | Yes |
-| `no-multiple-space-closed-atx` | MD021 | Yes |
-| `blanks-around-headings` | MD022 | Yes |
-| `heading-start-left` | MD023 | Yes |
-| `no-duplicate-heading` | MD024 | No |
-| `single-h1` | MD025 | No |
-| `no-trailing-punctuation` | MD026 | Yes |
-| `no-multiple-space-blockquote` | MD027 | Yes |
-| `no-blanks-blockquote` | MD028 | No |
-| `ol-prefix` | MD029 | Yes |
-| `list-marker-space` | MD030 | Yes |
-| `blanks-around-fences` | MD031 | Yes |
-| `blanks-around-lists` | MD032 | Yes |
-| `no-inline-html` | MD033 | No |
-| `no-bare-urls` | MD034 | Yes |
-| `hr-style` | MD035 | No |
-| `no-emphasis-as-heading` | MD036 | No |
-| `no-space-in-emphasis` | MD037 | Yes |
-| `no-space-in-code` | MD038 | Yes |
-| `no-space-in-links` | MD039 | Yes |
-| `fenced-code-language` | MD040 | No |
-| `first-line-h1` | MD041 | No |
-| `no-empty-links` | MD042 | No |
-| `required-headings` | MD043 | No |
-| `proper-names` | MD044 | Yes |
-| `no-alt-text` | MD045 | No |
-| `code-block-style` | MD046 | No |
-| `single-trailing-newline` | MD047 | Yes |
-| `code-fence-style` | MD048 | No |
-| `emphasis-style` | MD049 | Yes |
-| `strong-style` | MD050 | Yes |
-| `link-fragments` | MD051 | Yes |
-| `reference-links-images` | MD052 | No |
-| `link-image-reference-definitions` | MD053 | Yes |
-| `link-image-style` | MD054 | Yes |
-| `table-pipe-style` | MD055 | No |
-| `table-column-count` | MD056 | No |
-| `blanks-around-tables` | MD058 | Yes |
-| `descriptive-link-text` | MD059 | No |
-| `table-column-style` | MD060 | Yes |
-
-*(53 rules, 33 fixable.
-Generated from the built rule registry — `dist/rules/token/index.js`'s `allTokenRules`, cross-referenced against `benchmarks/parity/rule-map.mjs` for MD ids.)*
-
-### `extends` presets
-
-Recheck ships nine built-in presets, referenced by id under `extends:`.
-Presets are applied in listed order, then your own rule keys are merged on top — **your config always wins**: a rule key you define overrides the same key from a preset, and per-assertion options you set override just that assertion's preset options (other preset options for the same rule are preserved).
-
-There is one exception.
-A rule may attach a milder severity to some of its own reports, and your config can't escalate those: `recheck/markdoc-attributes` reports unknown attributes at `warn` no matter what severity you give the rule (see the `recheck/markdoc` bullet below).
-`severity: 'off'` still works as expected — it disables the rule entirely, so no reports of any severity.
-
-- **`recheck/markdown`** — the full 53-rule set from the table above, all at `severity: error` with upstream-faithful default options.
-  Equivalent to markdownlint's `{ default: true }`.
-- **`recheck/markdown-relaxed`** — mirrors markdownlint's own `style/relaxed.json`: the same 53 rules, with `no-trailing-spaces`, `no-hard-tabs`, `no-multiple-blanks`, `no-multiple-space-blockquote`, `no-blanks-blockquote`, `line-length`, `ul-indent`, `no-inline-html`, `no-bare-urls`, `fenced-code-language`, and `first-line-h1` turned off.
-- **`recheck/minimal`** — a small, high-signal set: `no-trailing-spaces`, `no-hard-tabs`, `single-trailing-newline`, `no-reversed-links`, `no-empty-links`.
-- **`recheck/prose`** — Recheck's Vale-parity starter set, all at `severity: warn`: `repetition` (default options),
-  `consistency` (one US spelling enforced file-wide for `behavior`/`color`/`license`/`organize` vs. their British spellings, matched with `ignoreCase: true` so a capitalized, sentence-initial variant like `Colour` still counts),
-  and `capitalization` (`$sentence`, `scope: heading` only, `fix: false`, no preset-level `exceptions` — see below).
-  All three are scoped to prose segments — `repetition` and `consistency` to `summary` (the document's prose: paragraph, heading, list-item, blockquote, and table-cell text), `capitalization` to headings — so the preset never flags (and `--fix` never rewrites) code samples or frontmatter.
-  `extends: [recheck/markdown, recheck/prose]` is the one-liner that replaces a markdownlint + Vale combo.
-  See [Opt-in prose assertions](#opt-in-prose-assertions) below for three more prose assertions that exist but are deliberately **not** in this preset.
-- **`recheck/markdoc`** — four Recheck-original rules that check Markdoc tag syntax itself (`{% tag attr="value" %}`) rather than prose or markdownlint parity.
-  All four are `fix: false`.
-  - `recheck/markdoc-syntax` (`error`) — malformed spans, unquoted "bareword" values, and close tags carrying attributes.
-  - `recheck/markdoc-pairing` (`error`) — unclosed, orphaned, or crossed tag pairs, and a self-closing tag written without a slash or given a close tag it shouldn't have.
-  - `recheck/markdoc-unknown-tag` (`warn`, because custom tags are common) — a tag name the schema doesn't declare.
-  - `recheck/markdoc-attributes` (mixed) — a missing required attribute, an enum or type violation, and a duplicate attribute report at `error`; an unknown attribute name, whether named or a stray positional value, always reports at `warn`.
-    That `warn` is set per report by the rule itself, so it wins over the rule's configured severity: setting the rule to `severity: error` does not escalate those reports.
-    Only `severity: 'off'` removes them, by disabling the rule.
-
-  **These rules only fire when Markdoc tokenization is also on.**
-  Set `markdoc: true` (or the object form, see below) alongside `extends: [recheck/markdoc]`.
-  Extending the preset without the flag validates, but prints a console warning that the four rules can never report.
-  The flag stays an explicit opt-in because Liquid and Jinja templates use the same `{% %}` delimiters for unrelated syntax, so Recheck never assumes it.
-- **`recheck/google`** — Google's developer documentation style guide (https://developers.google.com/style), CC BY 4.0, synced 2026-07-29.
-  99 rules covering heading/list/table/link structure, sentence-case headings, sentence length, voice and contractions, plain language, product naming, compound word forms, and inclusive/precise-language terminology —
-  all derived from the *live* guide (see `packages/recheck/presets/google/PROVENANCE.md` for the rule -> source page -> quote -> verdict table, including everything considered and NOT shipped, and why).
-  `extends: [recheck/google]` is a one-line adoption of Google's style; combine with `recheck/markdown` for full structural linting too.
-  Rule ids are namespaced `google/<rule>` (not `recheck/<rule>`) so they never collide with the markdownlint-parity or other style-guide presets.
-  Structural/mechanical rules (heading hierarchy, list mechanics, alt-text presence, sentence length) are `severity: error`; every word-choice, terminology, and punctuation-convention rule is `severity: warn`.
-  See `packages/recheck/presets/google/sources.json` for the fetched-page hashes.
-  **Adopting this preset has a real, measured performance cost — roughly 2.7× the standard `recheck/markdown`-only profile's lint time on a docs-sized document set** — see [Performance](#performance) below (Phase 4) before turning it on in CI.
-- **`recheck/microsoft`** — the Microsoft Writing Style Guide (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/style-guide/welcome/), CC BY 4.0 (via the guide's backing GitHub repository's LICENSE file — no `learn.microsoft.com` page states the licence itself, see `packages/recheck/presets/microsoft/PROVENANCE.md`), synced 2026-07-30.
-  93 rules covering heading/list/table/alt-text structure, the guide's own numeric thresholds (paragraph length, list length, comma density, alt-text length), its signature "use contractions" rule, US spelling, bias-free and people-first terminology, and a large A-Z terminology word list —
-  all derived from the *live* guide and checked against four independent verification passes (~490 rules/entries across ~340 page fetches), with every Tier-1 pair anchored or demoted to detection-only wherever it was found capable of rewriting correct prose.
-  Rule ids are namespaced `microsoft/<rule>`.
-  Structural rules and the A-Z word list's three unconditional tiers are `severity: error`; voice, punctuation-convention, and UI-terminology rules are `severity: warn`.
-  Audience-conditional and UI-conditional entries (Microsoft's own "Tier 4") are never enforced, and developer-audience carve-outs relevant to API documentation (`header`, `context menu`, `disk`, `directory`) are excluded rather than misfiring on Redocly's own docs — see `packages/recheck/presets/microsoft/PROVENANCE.md` for the full table, every excluded candidate, and why.
-  Unlike `recheck/google` (which allows `click`), this preset bans all input-specific UI verbs (`click`, `press`, `hit`) in favor of `select` — the sharpest divergence between the two guides.
-  See `packages/recheck/presets/microsoft/sources.json` for the fetched-page hashes.
-- **`recheck/inclusive-language`** — composable, guide-agnostic: the *intersection* of `recheck/google` and `recheck/microsoft`'s inclusive/bias-free/ableist/accessibility content —
-  terminology both flagship guides independently state should be avoided (`slave`, `master/slave`, `blacklist`/`whitelist`, `DMZ`, `grayed-out`, `he/she`, `normal person`/`healthy person`, `suffering from`/`victim of`, `differently abled`, `crippled`, `nuke`).
-  All `warn` severity, all detection-only.
-  Needed no new web fetch — every term was already confirmed against a live page by five existing verification reports; see `packages/recheck/presets/inclusive-language/PROVENANCE.md` for the report → row → term table and every single-guide term left out on purpose.
-  Layer it onto either flagship or onto `recheck/prose`: `extends: [recheck/google, recheck/inclusive-language]`.
-  **Because it's built as an intersection, every one of its 11 rules is already shipped by at least one flagship's own preset**
-  (measured: 7 of 11 duplicate a `google/*` finding on the same span when stacked onto `recheck/google` alone, 6 of 11 duplicate a `microsoft/*` finding when stacked onto `recheck/microsoft` alone — see `packages/recheck/presets/inclusive-language/PROVENANCE.md`'s "Duplicate-finding audit").
-  Its full, zero-duplicate value is realized standalone, with `recheck/prose`, or on a project using neither flagship; stacked onto exactly one flagship it still fills that flagship's own gaps, but expect a majority of its findings to be reported twice.
-- **`recheck/plain-language`** — composable, derived from the *live* US federal plain-language guidance (`digital.gov/guides/plain-language`; public domain, no attribution constraint).
-  Smaller than a first read of the old `plainlanguage.gov` site would suggest:
-  that site is now dead and redirects to a much thinner overview, so there's no sentence-length or readability-`metric` rule (`metric` stays a documented [opt-in](#opt-in-prose-assertions), unchanged) —
-  only paragraph length (the one family with real, quotable numbers), filler/wordy phrases, complex-word substitutes, redundant pairs, double negatives, and jargon-to-plain examples.
-  **`shall` is never flagged** — it's a defined RFC 2119 normative keyword used throughout specs and API docs, exactly what Recheck lints; `implement` and `command` carry the identical technical-sense collision and are excluded the same way.
-  All `warn`/`error` (paragraph-length ceiling only) severity, all detection-only.
-  `in order to` and `utilize`/`utilization` are deliberately NOT shipped despite being live, verbatim guide content — both flagships already ship the identical pair, so keeping them here would only ever produce a duplicate finding, never new coverage (measured: this cut duplicate findings on the same fixture from 6 to 3 against `recheck/google`, and from 5 to 3 against `recheck/microsoft`).
-  The 3 that remain are an accepted paragraph-length overlap with `recheck/microsoft` (two independently-sourced numbers, not the same fact restated) and a coincidental substring collision with `use-contractions`, not content duplication.
-  See `packages/recheck/presets/plain-language/PROVENANCE.md` for every rule's source quote, every family considered and left out, and the full duplicate-finding audit.
-
-- **`recheck/technical-english`** — composable, an original rule set that helps writers follow the principles of ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English: sentence length (max 25 words, the descriptive-text bound; tighten to 20 for procedures), paragraph length (max 6 sentences), and a passive-voice heuristic at `info`.
-  ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English is a Copyright and a Trade Mark of ASD, Brussels, Belgium.
-  This preset is an independent work that ASD and the STEMG do not review, approve, certify, or endorse, and it reproduces no part of the standard — not its text and not its dictionary (compose with `recheck/plain-language` for word-choice checking).
-  See `packages/recheck/presets/technical-english/PROVENANCE.md` for the STEMG correspondence and every deliberate omission.
-
-  **All five of the presets above — `recheck/google`, `recheck/microsoft`,
-  `recheck/inclusive-language`, `recheck/plain-language`, and `recheck/technical-english` — are
-  detection-only by design, not by omission: no rule in any of them
-  auto-fixes, ever.**
-  This is enforced structurally (`fix: false` on every rule, set once by a
-  loop at the end of each preset's builder function) and guarded by a test
-  that reads the live preset object and fails if a future rule change ever
-  makes one fixable again — see `preset-google.test.ts`'s and
-  `preset-microsoft.test.ts`'s "is detection-only" describe blocks, and
-  `preset-composition.test.ts`'s list-driven version covering all four.
-  `recheck/google` and `recheck/microsoft` once had fixable rules.
-  Every
-  attempt to define a safe subset of them found the fixes corrupting
-  genuinely correct prose, in every category previously believed safe:
-  spelling (Hemingway's correctly spelled *A Moveable Feast* → "A Movable
-  Feast"), hyphenation ("read only the introduction" → "read-only the
-  introduction"), and at least one outright inversion of meaning ("No SQL is
-  used here" → "NoSQL is used here").
-  A rule's *category* does not predict
-  fix safety at this scale: a style guide states intent while
-  `swap`/`consistency`/`pattern` match tokens, and narrowing which
-  categories count as "safe" doesn't close that gap.
-  Detection is
-  unaffected — every rule still runs and reports, and you apply the fix
-  yourself with the judgment style guidance has always required.
-  This is the
-  same reason Vale, the tool these presets replace, never shipped this class
-  of bug.
-  See the "Detection-only" sections of
-  `packages/recheck/presets/google/PROVENANCE.md` and
-  `packages/recheck/presets/microsoft/PROVENANCE.md` for the full history.
-
-  The heading rule uses **sentence case** *(changed from AP title case by product decision 2026-07-29: Redocly's own guide, Google, and Microsoft all mandate sentence case)*.
-  Two details make that default safe out of the box:
-
-  - **The [built-in technical proper-noun vocabulary](#built-in-technical-proper-noun-vocabulary)** — `TECHNICAL_PROPER_NOUNS` — is unioned into `exceptions` by `capitalization` itself (default `builtinVocabulary: true`), so this preset doesn't ship its own copy: `$sentence` still won't flag `OpenAPI`, `GitHub`, `macOS`, and the rest of that list out of the box.
-    It's a common-vocabulary floor, not a full brand list — extend it with your own product/company names via this rule's own `exceptions`, which **compose** with the built-ins rather than replacing them (unlike a preset-shipped list, which a same-key override would have replaced entirely).
-  - **`fix: false`** — a sentence-case auto-fix would lowercase any proper noun the built-ins and your own `exceptions` don't cover, silently damaging content.
-    Set `fix: true` on your own `recheck/capitalization` key (or drop the key) once your exceptions list covers your vocabulary.
+Use it through Redocly CLI.
+Configure it in the `recheck` block of `redocly.yaml`, and name presets in the root `extends`:
 
 ```yaml
 extends:
-  - recheck/markdown-relaxed
-
-# Your own overrides win over the preset:
-recheck/line-length:
-  severity: warn
-  assertions:
-    line-length:
-      lineLength: 120
-```
-
-Multiple presets can be listed; later presets in the list override earlier ones for the same rule key, before your own top-level rule keys are merged in last.
-
-### Tune a preset
-
-Adopting a whole style-guide preset doesn't mean accepting every rule at its shipped severity.
-Because your own config's rule keys always win over a preset's (see above), you can turn individual rules off, downgrade them, or silence single occurrences — all verified against a live build, not just read from source:
-
-```yaml
-extends: [recheck/markdown, recheck/microsoft]
-
-microsoft/az-navigation:
-  severity: off          # turn a rule off entirely
-
-microsoft/heading-sentence-case:
-  severity: warn         # downgrade an error to a warning (this rule ships at error)
-```
-
-Or silence one occurrence instead of the whole rule, with an inline directive (works on any rule, from any preset — see [Inline Directives](#inline-directives) above):
-
-```markdown
-<!-- recheck-disable-next-line microsoft/az-navigation -->
-Click the hot link to continue.
-
-<!-- recheck-disable microsoft/az-navigation -->
-...several occurrences here are all silenced...
-<!-- recheck-enable microsoft/az-navigation -->
-
-<!-- recheck-disable-file -->
-```
-
-**The sharp edge:** merging a user override on top of a preset rule happens per *assertion id*, not per option inside it.
-Setting a partial override on a bundled `swap` or `pattern` rule doesn't just change the one option you named — it **replaces that assertion object entirely**, silently discarding everything else it carried.
-For example:
-
-```yaml
-microsoft/spelling-hyphenation:
-  assertions:
-    swap:
-      ignoreCase: false
+  - recommended
+  - recheck/markdown
+recheck:
+  rules:
+    recheck/line-length: off
 ```
 
-drops the preset's whole `pairs` map along with it, and the config then fails validation outright (verified against this exact rule on a live build):
+Run it with `npx @redocly/cli recheck`.
+Its documentation is the [Markdown and prose linting](../../docs/@v2/recheck/index.md) section and the [recheck command page](../../docs/@v2/commands/recheck.md).
 
-```text
-Rule "microsoft/spelling-hyphenation": swap requires a "pairs" object mapping find -> replace strings
-```
+Two agent skills for AI coding assistants ship in [`skills/`](./skills): `recheck-lint` runs the command on touched Markdown, and `recheck-config` tunes the `recheck` block.
+Install them with `npx skills add https://redocly.com`, or copy them from `node_modules/@redocly/recheck/skills/` into your project's `.claude/skills/`.
+The repository keeps the same files under [`.claude/skills/`](../../.claude/skills), which is where the website publishes them from, so change both copies together.
 
-So today, to reject just one term out of a bundled `swap`/`pattern` rule, your options are: turn the whole rule off, restate its entire `pairs`/`tokens` yourself, or inline-disable each occurrence as shown above.
-Two assertion types already have a real per-term escape hatch that doesn't hit this edge: `capitalization`'s `exceptions` (an array of allowed terms that **composes** with the built-in technical-proper-noun vocabulary and anything else you add, rather than replacing it) and `spelling`'s `ignore`.
-A per-term opt-out for `swap`/`pattern` is a known follow-up, not shipped yet.
+## Programmatic use
 
-### Example configs
+The package exports the engine for tools that embed it:
 
-`packages/recheck/examples/{google,microsoft,inclusive-language,plain-language,technical-english}.yaml` are ready-to-copy configs for the five style presets,
-generated by `pnpm examples:generate` (`packages/recheck/scripts/generate-examples.mjs`) so they can never drift from the preset they document —
-a test (`src/config/__tests__/examples-drift.test.ts`) byte-compares each on-disk file against a fresh render and fails, naming the file, if either the preset or the file's own hand-maintained appendix (`examples/appendices/<name>.appendix.yaml`) changes without regenerating.
+- `@redocly/recheck/presets` exports the presets as a plugin, `recheckPresetsPlugin`.
+  Pass it in `plugins` to `loadConfig` or `createConfig` of `@redocly/openapi-core`, and read the merged block from `config.recheck`.
+- `resolveRecheckConfig({ block, configDir })` turns a resolved `recheck` block into normalized rules.
+- `lintFiles` and `lintContent` run those rules over files or strings.
+- `runLint`, `generateBaseline`, `runReadability`, and `generateMarkdocSchema` are the actions the CLI command calls.
+  Each action returns a result object.
+  The CLI prints it.
+  `runLint`, `generateBaseline`, and `runReadability` accept one path or a list of paths.
+- `parseMarkdown`, `extractScopes`, and `applyFixesToContent` expose the parser, the scope extractor, and the fixer.
 
-Each file has four parts, in this order:
+The package depends on `@redocly/openapi-core` for the `Plugin` type of the presets entry.
 
-1. **An attribution header** — source, license, and sync date, as YAML comments (mirrors that preset's `PROVENANCE.md`).
-2. **`# What to paste`** — the actual adoption cost: a two-to-four-line `extends` block.
-   This is the only part most readers need; everything below it is supporting material, not something to copy.
-3. **`# How to tune it`** — override patterns verified to work today (turn a rule off, downgrade its severity, inline-disable one occurrence with an HTML comment),
-   plus a documented sharp edge: overriding one option on a bundled `swap`/`pattern` rule's `assertions` **replaces that assertion entirely**, silently discarding options like a `pairs` map you didn't restate (merging is per *assertion id*, not per option) —
-   restate the whole map, turn the rule off, or use an inline directive instead.
-   `capitalization`'s `exceptions` and `spelling`'s `ignore` are the two assertion types that already have a real per-term escape hatch; an equivalent for `swap`/`pattern` is a known follow-up, not shipped yet.
-4. **`# Full expansion (reference)`** — the preset's entire resolved rule set (alphabetized), so a reader can see exactly what they're adopting without running the tool.
-   Every value here is identical to what the `extends` block above already resolves to, so copying this section too is redundant, not broken — it's for reading, not pasting.
+The standalone `recheck` binary and the `recheck.yaml` file are not part of this package.
 
-A hand-maintained appendix is appended verbatim after part 4: NOISY candidates the guide states but the preset doesn't enforce (shown as the rule they'd be if shipped, commented out, with a one-line false-positive note each) and a checklist of guide content that needs a human, not a linter (NOT-ENFORCEABLE — active voice, missing-Oxford-comma detection, and similar).
+## Configuration
 
 ### Opt-in prose assertions
 
-`recheck/prose` (above) intentionally ships only `repetition`, `consistency`, and `capitalization` — a small, broadly-applicable default.
-Three more Vale-parity/native assertions exist (see [Assertion Types](#assertion-types) above for full per-option tables) but are **not shipped in any preset**, because their thresholds, patterns, or dictionaries are inherently project-specific rather than having one right-for-everyone default: `conditional`, `metric`, `spelling`.
-(`length` and `occurrence` used to be entries here; neither is an opt-in any more — [`recheck/google`](#extends-presets) ships `length` directly for the guide's sentence-length limit, and [`recheck/microsoft`](#extends-presets) ships `occurrence` directly for the guide's comma-density rule, so neither one's default bounds are "no one right answer" any more.)
-Add any of the three by copying its rule below into your own config, alongside `extends: [recheck/prose]`:
-
-```yaml
-extends: [recheck/markdown, recheck/prose]
-
-# conditional: if "TBD" appears, a tracking-issue link must exist somewhere in the file.
-recheck/tbd-needs-tracking-link:
-  severity: warn
-  message: '"%s" appears but "%s" was never introduced.'
-  assertions:
-    conditional:
-      first: '\bTBD\b'
-      second: 'https://github\.com/\S+/issues/\d+'
-
-# metric: flag prose below a Flesch reading-ease floor (higher score = easier to read).
-# The message's four slots are positional: formula, score, min, max (see "Metric Assertions").
-recheck/readability-floor:
-  severity: warn
-  message: 'Readability (%s) is %s; expected between %s and %s.'
-  assertions:
-    metric:
-      formula: flesch-reading-ease
-      min: 30
-
-# spelling: requires the optional `nspell`/`dictionary-en` peers -- see
-# "Spelling Assertions" above for the install command.
-recheck/us-spelling-check:
-  severity: warn
-  message: 'Unknown word "%s"%s'
-  assertions:
-    spelling:
-      vocab: [Redocly, Reunite]
-```
-
-Each snippet's `severity`, `message`, `scope`, and `exceptions` are yours to adjust — see [Rule Types and Assertions](#rule-types-and-assertions) for every option each assertion accepts, and [Inline Directives](#inline-directives) to silence any one of them on a specific line or file with an HTML comment instead of turning it off entirely.
+`conditional`, `metric`, and `spelling` have no single right default.
+Add them explicitly under `recheck.rules`.
 
-### Migrate from markdownlint
-
-A markdownlint config maps onto Recheck almost 1:1 — `extends` a preset, then override individual rules by their Recheck name (same short name markdownlint uses, e.g. `line-length` for MD013) under `assertions`:
+`metric` scores the prose of a whole file and reports once when the score is outside `min` and `max`.
+Its `formula` is a readability formula (`flesch-reading-ease`, `flesch-kincaid-grade`, `gunning-fog`, `smog`, `coleman-liau`, `automated-readability`) or a size formula (`word-count`, `sentence-count`, `reading-time`).
+`reading-time` is minutes at `wordsPerMinute`, default 200, rounded to one decimal.
+Size formulas count what a person reads: code blocks, front matter, headings, and Markdoc tags are left out.
+Use one as a page-size budget, such as a word cap on agent skills:
 
 ```yaml
 extends:
   - recheck/markdown
-
-recheck/line-length:
-  severity: warn
-  message: 'Keep lines under %s characters.'
-  assertions:
-    line-length:
-      lineLength: 120
-      codeBlocks: false
-
-recheck/ul-style:
-  severity: off
-```
-
-**Renamed legacy assertion ids — old ids are no longer accepted.**
-A handful of ids from Recheck's pre-parity native rules were converged onto their markdownlint-parity replacements.
-These four were removed outright, not kept as aliases: using the old id in a config now fails validation with an `unknown assertion type "<old>"` error, and the config must be updated to the new id:
-
-| Old id (removed) | Use instead |
-| --- | --- |
-| `max-line-length` | `line-length` (MD013) |
-| `bullet-style` | `ul-style` (MD004) |
-| `no-duplicate-headings` | `no-duplicate-heading` (MD024) |
-| `no-broken-fragment-links` | `link-fragments` (MD051) |
-
-Two other ids are **upstream markdownlint's own alternate rule names**, not a Recheck deprecation — these remain permanent, warning-free aliases and require no config change:
-
-| Upstream synonym | Canonical id |
-| --- | --- |
-| `first-line-heading` | `first-line-h1` (MD041) |
-| `single-title` | `single-h1` (MD025) |
-
-**Two intentional behavior changes** vs. plain markdownlint defaults, both on rules that predate the parity port and kept their exact ids:
-
-- **`no-trailing-spaces` (MD009)** now exempts lines with *exactly 2* trailing spaces by default (a markdown hard line break), instead of flagging all trailing whitespace.
-  Set `strict: true` to restore the old flag-everything behavior (matches markdownlint's default).
-- **`no-hard-tabs` (MD010)**'s `spacesPerTab` option now defaults to `1` (matching markdownlint's own upstream default) — Recheck's earlier, pre-parity native rule had defaulted this to `2`.
-  If you were relying on that old default, set `spacesPerTab: 2` explicitly.
-
-Token-rule options aren't individually schema-validated, so an option name a rule doesn't recognize is silently ignored — it has no effect, and produces no warning or error.
-
-### Cross-file link validation
-
-`link-fragments` accepts `crossFile: true` to validate links across files, replacing external link checkers such as `mlc` for repo-internal links:
-
-- A relative link or image target must exist on disk (`[x](./missing.md)` flags).
-- A `file.md#anchor` fragment must exist in the target file's headings and anchors.
-- Extensionless links resolve the way the Realm router does: `./page` tries `page.md`, and a directory link reads its `index.md`.
-- Site-root absolute paths (`/x/y`) resolve against the `rootDir` option when set, and are skipped without it.
-- `ignoredTargets` skips destinations by glob (`['/gateways/**']`) — for routes a renderer generates from data, with no file on disk.
-- Links to `<details>` sections resolve: a `<details>` without an explicit `id` gets one derived from its `<summary>` text, the same way the theme generates them in the browser.
-- Markdoc tags in headings (`## Payments {% badge /%}`) do not change the heading's anchor.
-  In a monorepo with several docs projects, give `rootDir` a map from source-directory prefix to that directory's site root; the longest matching prefix wins, and files under no prefix keep the skip.
-  Paths are relative to the working directory.
-- External URLs and `mailto:` are skipped.
-
-Each target file is read once per run and cached by modification time.
-The option is off by default; in-document fragment checking is unchanged.
-
-### Known differences from markdownlint
-
-- **Inline HTML-comment disable directives are not supported**, for example:
-
-  ```html
-  <!-- markdownlint&#45;disable -->
-  ```
-
-  (dash HTML-escaped above so this very README doesn't trip markdownlint's own directive scanner — markdownlint recognizes these directives even inside fenced code, so the literal syntax can't appear here unescaped).
-  Markdownlint's HTML-comment-based per-line/per-region rule toggles (`markdownlint-disable`, `markdownlint-disable-next-line`, `markdownlint-enable`, etc.) are a distinct engine feature, not a rule port, and Recheck doesn't parse them today.
-  Use config-level `exceptions` (file/line patterns) or `excludes`/`appliesTo` to achieve the same effect.
-  Native support is a possible future addition; no decision has been made yet.
-
-### Parity with markdownlint
-
-The 53 ported rules are checked against upstream markdownlint by a differential harness (`pnpm parity`, `benchmarks/parity/run-parity.mjs`): the harness lints the same real-world document set with both Recheck (via a config translated from markdownlint's option surface) and markdownlint itself, then set-diffs the findings.
-As of this writing it reports **zero unexplained differences** across:
-
-- `mdn-content` (MDN Web Docs, ~14.5k files)
-- `electron` (Electron's docs + repo markdown)
-- `monorepo-docs` (this monorepo's own `docs/` tree)
-
-on both the `default` profile (full `recheck/markdown` preset vs. markdownlint `{ default: true }`) and a `rebilly` profile (a real third-party `.markdownlint.yaml` translated to Recheck config).
-A small, explicitly documented allowlist (`benchmarks/parity/allowlist.json`) covers the one known permanent engine-surface gap — inline `markdownlint-disable` directives (see [Known differences](#known-differences-from-markdownlint) above) — scoped to the exact rules it can affect (MD010, MD011, MD033, MD059).
-Everything else matches exactly.
-
-**`pnpm parity` requires `--corpus`** — running it bare exits `2` with a usage error (`Usage: node benchmarks/parity/run-parity.mjs --corpus <name> [--profile default|rebilly] [--rules MD001,MD013]`) rather than running against a default document set.
-Always pass a document-set name, e.g. `pnpm parity --corpus monorepo-docs --profile default`.
-
-### Front matter validation
-
-The `front-matter` token rule validates front matter against JSON Schema, using `@redocly/ajv` — the same validator Redocly CLI uses.
-Map file patterns to schemas; the first matching mapping wins, and a file that matches no mapping is not checked.
-
-```yaml
-recheck/front-matter:
-  severity: error
-  message: 'Front matter: %s'
-  assertions:
-    front-matter:
-      schemas:
-        - files: ['.changeset/**']
-          schema:
-            type: object
-            patternProperties:
-              '^@redocly/': { enum: [major, minor, patch] }
-            additionalProperties: false
-        - files: ['docs/**']
-          schemaFile: schemas/docs-front-matter.yaml
-```
-
-- `schema` is an inline JSON Schema object, or the name of a built-in schema (see below); `schemaFile` loads one from a YAML or JSON file, relative to the working directory.
-- A file with no front matter validates as an empty object, so the schema's `required` list decides whether front matter is mandatory.
-- Findings point at the line of the offending top-level key; front matter that is not valid YAML is one finding at the block start.
-
-#### Built-in schema: Realm page front matter
-
-`schema: realm` validates the front matter options a Realm page accepts, so a project gets the check without vendoring a copy that goes stale:
-
-```yaml
-        - files: ['docs/**']
-          schema: realm
-          strict: true
-```
-
-It covers the front-matter-only options (`excludeFromSearch`, `sidebar`, `slug`, `template`, `navigation`, `keywords`), the options that override `redocly.yaml` (`banner`, `breadcrumbs`, `codeSnippet`, `colorMode`, `feedback`, `footer`, `markdown`, `metadata`, `navbar`, `navigation`, `rbac`, `redirects`, `search`, `seo`, `versionPicker`), and `title`/`description`.
-
-The schema checks the **type** of each known key, not the inner shape of the option objects.
-`seo`, `markdown`, and their siblings are whole configuration blocks that Realm evolves independently, so encoding their structure here would drift and start rejecting valid pages.
-Type checking still catches what actually goes wrong: a misspelled key (with `strict`), and a value of the wrong kind (`excludeFromSearch: "true"`).
-
-`strict: true` adds `additionalProperties: false`, which turns a misspelled option into a finding.
-It is off by default because pages carry project data that Markdoc templates read back through `$frontmatter.<key>` — Redocly's own docs use `products` and `plans` this way on 268 pages.
-To keep `strict` and allow your own keys, copy the built-in as a starting point and add them.
-
-## GitHub Actions Integration
-
-Recheck provides seamless GitHub Actions integration for automated content quality checking on pull requests.
-
-### Output Format: `github-actions`
-
-Use the `--output github-actions` format to generate inline file annotations that appear directly on pull request files:
-
-```bash
-# Basic GitHub Actions output
-node dist/cli.js docs --output github-actions
-
-# With annotation limits (recommended for PR workflows)
-node dist/cli.js docs --output github-actions --annotations-limit 20
-```
-
-### Annotation Output
-
-The GitHub Actions format produces annotations that GitHub automatically displays as inline comments:
-
-```text
-::error title=recheck/no-trailing-spaces,file=docs/guide.md,line=42,col=15,endColumn=18::Trailing spaces
-::warning title=recheck/ul-style,file=docs/api.md,line=23,col=1,endColumn=2::Unordered list style
-```
-
-### GitHub Actions Limits
-
-GitHub Actions has strict limits on annotations:
-- **10 error** and **10 warning** annotations per step
-- **50 total** annotations per job
-
-**Recommendation**: Use `--annotations-limit 20` (the default) to stay well within these limits while prioritizing the most critical issues.
-
-### Workflow Example
-
-```yaml
-- name: Run recheck with inline annotations
-  run: |
-    node packages/recheck/dist/cli.js docs \
-      --config recheck.yaml \
-      --output github-actions \
-      --changed-only < changed-files.txt
-```
-
-This creates both inline file annotations AND summary comments when combined with the PR comment workflow.
-
-## Performance
-
-Recheck's file-first, parse-once architecture is benchmarked directly against `markdownlint`'s own library API (`benchmarks/run-markdownlint.mjs`) on the same corpora, using `pnpm bench` (see `benchmarks/bench.mjs`):
-
-- **Phase 1** (10 native scope rules vs. markdownlint's default rules, `monorepo-docs` document set, 953 files): recheck **0.91×** markdownlint's median time (3219ms vs. 3521ms) — see `benchmarks/results/phase1-ast-core.json` / `baseline-markdownlint.json`.
-- **Phase 2** (all 53 markdownlint-parity rules via `extends: [recheck/markdown]` vs. markdownlint's `{ default: true }`, equivalent rule sets):
-  - `monorepo-docs` (954 files): recheck 4468ms vs. markdownlint 3755ms — **1.19×**.
-  - `mdn-content` (14,515 files, a real-world OSS document set): recheck 41839ms vs. markdownlint 34548ms — **1.21×**.
-
-Both Phase 2 numbers sit comfortably inside the ±40% parity gate (recheck's median must fall within `[0.6×, 1.4×]` of markdownlint's on an equivalent rule set) enforced by:
-
-```bash
-pnpm bench --subject benchmarks/run-recheck-mdl-preset.mjs --corpus monorepo-docs --record <label>
-pnpm bench --subject benchmarks/run-markdownlint.mjs --corpus monorepo-docs --record <label>
-```
-
-Recheck trades a bit of the Phase 1 constant-factor lead for full rule-count parity (53 rules vs. 10) — still within budget, and the shared AST-parse-once architecture means adding prose/style rules on top costs little extra, since markdown structure parsing is already paid for.
-
-- **Phase 3** (prose profile — the standard Phase 2 rule set vs. that same set plus the Vale-parity prose additions, `monorepo-docs` document set, the same set on both sides):
-  - Standard profile (`recheck-mdl-preset.yaml`, `extends: [recheck/markdown]`, 53 rules, `run-recheck-mdl-preset.mjs`, 965 files): **4072ms** median — **-8.9% vs the Phase 2 recording** (`phase2-parity-recheck`, 4468ms, 954 files),
-    i.e. no regression from the Phase 3 rule-registry additions, since the standard profile doesn't exercise any of them (the small speedup is run-to-run variance plus the document-set size difference, not an optimization claim).
-  - Prose profile (`recheck-prose-bench.yaml`, `extends: [recheck/markdown, recheck/prose]` plus one opt-in `occurrence` rule and one opt-in `conditional` rule, 58 rules, `run-recheck-prose.mjs`, same 965 files): **4547ms** median — **+11.7%** vs. the standard profile above, for the five added prose/scope rules (`repetition`, `consistency`, `capitalization`, and the two opt-ins).
-    Comfortably under the "investigate if >2x standard" threshold; no pathological per-rule cost found.
-    There is no hard pass/fail gate for this profile (new profile, first recording) — these numbers establish its baseline.
-  - Measured 2026-07-27 (local time; the result JSONs record the UTC date `2026-07-28`, so the file dates and this measurement date differ by design, not by error) at commit `27a8b6feb10` (immediately prior to the commit that added this benchmark profile), on an Apple M2 Max / Darwin 24.6.0 / Node v23.7.0 machine;
-    single 3-run session, not a statistically rigorous multi-session average — treat the deltas as directional, not precise.
-    `pnpm bench --subject <script> --corpus monorepo-docs --runs 3 --record <label>` (median of 3 timed runs after 1 warm-up); recorded to `benchmarks/results/phase3-prose-standard.json` / `phase3-prose-profile.json`.
-    A `--corpus self` (2-file) smoke pair recorded to `phase3-prose-standard-self.json` / `phase3-prose-profile-self.json` proves the harness/subject-script mechanics end-to-end but isn't large enough to be a meaningful timing signal on its own.
-
-- **Phase 4** (refreshed standard/prose figures plus the new `recheck/google` profile, `monorepo-docs` document set, the same set across all three, 968 files — the document set grew by 3 files since the Phase 3 recording):
-  - Standard profile (same config as Phase 2/3, `recheck-mdl-preset.yaml`, 53 rules): **4350ms** median (runs 4341/4350/4369ms — 28ms spread, 0.6% of median: a tight, trustworthy measurement).
-    This refreshes — and for current comparisons supersedes — Phase 3's `4072ms`/965-file recording; the ~7% difference is within normal session-to-session noise (different process/cache/scheduler state), not a regression, and there is still no rule-registry change that would affect this profile.
-  - Prose profile (same config as Phase 3, `recheck-prose-bench.yaml`, 58 rules): **4801ms** median (runs 4599/4801/4840ms — 241ms spread, 5.0% of median) — **+10.4%** vs. the refreshed standard profile above.
-    This is the requested refresh of the Phase 3 prose figures, which the `capitalization` default's AP-title-case → sentence-case change (2026-07-29, see [`extends` presets](#extends-presets) below) made marginally stale, since this profile's `capitalization` rule is exactly what that change touched.
-    The new delta (+10.4%) is close to Phase 3's original (+11.7%); given the 5.0% run-to-run spread observed here, treat both numbers as directionally consistent, not as proof of a precise change in cost — same posture Phase 3 itself took.
-  - **`recheck/google` profile** (new — `recheck-google-bench.yaml`, `extends: [recheck/markdown, recheck/google]`, 152 rules total: the same 53-rule structural set plus all 99 rules `recheck/google` ships, `run-recheck-google.mjs`, same 968 files): **11792ms** median (runs 11628/11792/12164ms — 536ms spread, 4.5% of median).
-    - **This profile is substantially more expensive than either profile above: roughly 2.7× (~+171%) the standard profile's median time**, a materially different result from the ~1.1–1.2× range Phase 2/3 established for the markdownlint-parity and Vale-parity workloads.
-      This is recorded as a **new baseline on its own terms, not a regression against the standard-profile's ±40% parity gate** — that gate applies only to `recheck/markdown` vs. markdownlint's equivalent rule set (Phase 2, unaffected by this preset's addition) and was never meant to bound a ~99-rule prose-preset workload layered on top of it.
-      The number is reported as measured, without tuning the preset to improve it.
-    - The ~171% delta is far larger than the ≤5% run-to-run spread measured on all three profiles this session, so the *direction and rough magnitude* of "the Google preset costs several times more than the structural set alone" is trustworthy; the precise "171%" is not — this is a single 3-run-median session on one developer machine, not a statistically rigorous benchmark.
-      Read it as "roughly 2.5–3×," not as a number with two decimal digits of meaning.
-    - **What this means for adopters**: turning on `extends: [recheck/google]` roughly triples per-run lint time on a docs-sized document set (968 files: ~4.3s → ~11.8s).
-      That is a real, user-facing cost, stated here so it is visible before adoption rather than discovered later in CI — projects sensitive to CI duration should budget for it explicitly (e.g., a separate, non-blocking job, or a scheduled run) rather than assuming `recheck/google` is free to layer on top of `recheck/markdown`.
-  - Measured 2026-07-30 at commit `7c50caaaf05` (immediately prior to the commit that adds this benchmark profile), on the same Apple M2 Max / Darwin 24.6.0 / Node v23.7.0 machine as Phase 1–3; single 3-run session per profile (1 warm-up + 3 timed runs), same caveats as Phase 3 — treat deltas as directional, not precise.
-    `pnpm bench --subject <script> --corpus monorepo-docs --runs 3 --record <label>`; recorded to `benchmarks/results/phase4-google-standard.json` / `phase4-google-prose-refresh.json` / `phase4-google-profile.json`.
-
-- **Markdoc parse cost** (`parseMarkdown` in isolation — no rules, no config validation — flag off vs. flag on, `monorepo-docs` document set, 981 files, `run-recheck-parse.mjs` / `run-recheck-parse-markdoc.mjs`): flag off **2825ms** median (runs 2784/2825/2966ms) vs. flag on **2896ms** median (runs 2864/2896/3101ms) — **+2.5%**.
-  That gap is smaller than the ~240–280ms run-to-run spread on either side, so read it as "no measurable parse-time cost from turning `markdoc: true` on" rather than a precise 2.5% overhead; the number is reported as measured.
-  This is its own baseline row — there is no earlier "parse only, flag off" recording to compare against — and it is deliberately not gated against the ±40% markdownlint-parity budget above, which covers the 53-rule structural comparison and never sets this flag.
-  Measured 2026-08-02 at commit `db8df4378ff`, on the same Apple M2 Max / Darwin 24.6.0 / Node v23.7.0 machine as the phases above; single 3-run session per side.
-  `pnpm bench --subject benchmarks/run-recheck-parse.mjs --corpus monorepo-docs --runs 3 --record <label>` (and the `-markdoc` sibling script for the flag-on side); recorded to `benchmarks/results/markdoc-parse-cost-flag-off.json` / `markdoc-parse-cost-flag-on.json`.
-- ✅ **Scalable**: File-first architecture with rule indexing optimizes for large repositories; the same micromark AST backs both markdown-structure rules and prose-scope rules, so combining both rule families costs one parse, not two.
-
-## Dependencies
-
-### Runtime Dependencies
-- `@redocly/ajv` + `ajv-formats` - JSON Schema validation
-- `js-yaml` - YAML configuration parsing
-- `yargs` - CLI interface
-- `colorette` - Terminal colors
-- `picomatch` - File pattern matching
-- `micromark` + `micromark-extension-directive`, `micromark-extension-frontmatter`, `micromark-extension-gfm-autolink-literal`, `micromark-extension-gfm-footnote`, `micromark-extension-gfm-table`, `micromark-extension-math` - the markdown parser (and its GFM/frontmatter/directive/math extensions) backing the shared token tree that both markdown-structure and prose/scope rules run against
-- `string-width` - measures the display width of strings containing wide/ambiguous-width or ANSI-styled characters, for CLI table output alignment
-
-### Optional Peer Dependencies
-- `nspell` + `dictionary-en` - Hunspell-compatible spell checker (and its bundled English dictionary) backing the `spelling` assertion (see [Spelling Assertions](#spelling-assertions-spelling) above).
-  **Not installed by installing `@redocly/recheck`** — both are declared `optional: true` in `peerDependenciesMeta`, loaded lazily via dynamic `import()` only when a config actually enables `spelling`.
-  Run `npm i nspell dictionary-en` to enable it (or just `npm i nspell` if every `spelling` rule supplies its own `dictionary` path).
-
-### Development Dependencies
-- `vitest` - Modern testing framework
-- `typescript` - Type checking and compilation
-- `markdownlint` - upstream reference implementation, used by the differential parity harness (`pnpm parity`) and its own smoke tests, not by Recheck itself at runtime
-- `nspell` + `dictionary-en` - pinned here too (see Optional Peer Dependencies above) so this package's own test suite can exercise the real speller against real dictionary data
-- `@types/*` - TypeScript definitions
-
-## Example Output
-
-### Standard Run
-```text
-🏃 Running recheck on: docs/
-✅ Configuration loaded successfully!
-   Config file: recheck.yaml
-   Loaded 8 rule(s)
-   Disabled 1 rule(s) (severity: off)
-
-🔧 Running 8 rule(s)...
-   Found 311 markdown file(s)
-   Checking rule: us-spelling...
-   Checking rule: no-gerund-headings...
-   Checking rule: oxford-comma...
-   Checking rule: no-trailing-spaces...
-   Checking rule: ul-style...
-   Checking rule: semantic-line-breaks...
-   Checking rule: no-hard-tabs...
-   Checking rule: no-duplicate-heading...
-
-📋 Found 1086 issue(s):
-
-us-spelling               README.md:68:5      Use the US spelling "color" instead of British "colour".
-no-trailing-spaces        README.md:15:42     Trailing spaces
-ul-style                  docs/guide.md:22:1  Unordered list style
-
-   65 error(s)
-   1021 warning(s)
-
-❌ Found 65 error(s). Exiting with code 1.
-   Completed in 156ms
-```
-
-### JSON Output
-```json
-{
-  "summary": {
-    "filesScanned": 311,
-    "totalIssues": 1086,
-    "breakdown": {
-      "recheck/no-trailing-spaces": {
-        "errors": 65,
-        "warnings": 0,
-        "info": 0,
-        "total": 65
-      },
-      "recheck/ul-style": {
-        "errors": 1021,
-        "warnings": 0,
-        "info": 0,
-        "total": 1021
-      }
-    }
-  },
-  "issues": [
-    {
-      "file": "../../docs/realm/branding/index.md",
-      "line": 13,
-      "column": 22,
-      "text": "Use the brand guidelines when applying Redocly brand",
-      "match": "  ",
-      "ruleName": "recheck/no-trailing-spaces",
-      "severity": "error",
-      "message": "Trailing spaces"
-    }
-  ]
-}
-```
-
-## What's Working Now
-
-- ✅ **Modern Architecture**: File-first processing — each file is parsed once into a micromark AST, then segmented into scopes for rule application
-- ✅ **Vale Compatibility**: Scope notation compatible with Vale linter
-- ✅ **Swap Rules**: Find and replace text patterns with word boundaries and case sensitivity
-- ✅ **Pattern Rules**: Regex matching with precise scope filtering
-- ✅ **Built-in Assertions**: `swap` and `pattern` general-purpose assertions, a small set of native prose assertions, and 53 markdownlint-parity rules — all fully implemented with comprehensive tests
-- ✅ **File Discovery**: Recursive markdown file finding with common directory exclusions
-- ✅ **Multiple Output Formats**: Human-readable table, structured JSON, SARIF, and GitHub Actions
-- ✅ **Severity Filtering**: Show only errors, warnings, or all issues
-- ✅ **Exit Codes**: Non-zero exit when errors found (perfect for CI)
-- ✅ **Exception Handling**: Skip lines and files that match exception patterns
-- ✅ **Auto-Fix**: Safe automatic correction for appropriate rules
-- ✅ **Production Scale**: Successfully handles large documentation repositories
-- ✅ **Comprehensive Testing**: Full Vitest test suite covering the parser, scope extractor, config validation, rules, and CLI
-
-
-### Key Design Principles
-
-- **File-First Processing**: Iterate by files, then by semantic scopes within files
-- **Scope-Based Rules**: Apply rules only to relevant content scopes
-- **Type Safety**: Full TypeScript coverage with strict typing
-- **AST-Based Parsing**: A micromark token tree per file backs scope segmentation, replacing regex-based scope parsing
-- **Modular Rules**: Each built-in rule in its own file with dedicated tests
-- **Safe Auto-Fix**: Granular control over which rules can auto-fix
-- **Vale Compatibility**: Scope notation compatible with existing Vale configurations
-
-## File Targeting
-
-Rules can target specific files using path patterns with `appliesTo` and `excludes`:
-
-### Apply Rules to Specific Files
-
-```yaml
-recheck/config-docs-only:
-  severity: error
-  message: "Config docs must follow specific patterns"
-  appliesTo:
-    - "docs/config/**"        # All files in docs/config directory
-    - "**/api/*.md"           # All .md files in any api directory  
-    - "*.config.md"           # Files ending with .config.md
-  assertions:
-    pattern:
-      tokens: ["TODO"]
-
-recheck/api-standards:
-  severity: warn
-  message: "API docs need review"
-  appliesTo:
-    - "docs/api/**"           # Target API documentation
-    - "**/endpoints/*.md"     # Target endpoint documentation
-  assertions:
-    pattern:
-      tokens: ["DRAFT", "TBD"]
-```
-
-### Exclude Files from Rules
-
-```yaml
-recheck/no-todos:
-  severity: error
-  message: "No TODOs allowed"
-  excludes:
-    - "docs/drafts/**"        # Exclude all draft documents
-    - "**/temp*.md"           # Exclude temporary files
-    - "README.md"             # Exclude specific file
-  assertions:
-    pattern:
-      tokens: ["TODO"]
-```
-
-### Path Pattern Support
-
-File targeting supports multiple pattern types:
-
-- **Full path patterns**: `docs/config/**`, `src/components/*.md`
-- **Recursive patterns**: `**/api/*.md`, `**/README.md`
-- **Basename patterns**: `*.config.md`, `temp*.md` (backward compatible)
-- **Exact matches**: `README.md`, `docs/guide.md`
-
-### Pattern Matching Strategy
-
-The enhanced pattern matching checks patterns against:
-
-1. **Filename** (`config.md`) - for simple patterns
-2. **Relative path** (`docs/config/settings.md`) - for full path patterns
-3. **Path segments** (`config/settings.md`) - for partial path patterns
-
-This allows flexible targeting while maintaining backward compatibility.
-
-## Contribute
-
-Want to add new assertions or improve existing ones?
-Check out our **[Contributing Guide](src/rules/CONTRIBUTING.md)** for:
-
-- 🏗️ **Architecture overview** - How parse-once file processing and centralized scope filtering work
-- 📝 **Step-by-step guide** - Create new assertions following best practices
-- 🧪 **Testing guidelines** - Comprehensive test coverage examples
-- ✅ **Code standards** - Follow our established conventions
-- 🚀 **Quick examples** - Get started with working code templates
-
-The guide covers our modern architecture where the **runner handles parsing and scope filtering automatically**.
-An assertion's `execute`/`fix` functions can focus on their core logic instead of re-implementing segment selection or file I/O.
-
-## Future Enhancements
-
-1. **Plugin System**: Custom rule loading from external files/packages
-2. **Configuration Inheritance**: Config file discovery and inheritance
-3. **Watch Mode**: Real-time linting as files change
-4. **IDE Integration**: Language server protocol support
-5. **Additional Scopes**: Support for more Vale-compatible scopes
+recheck:
+  rules:
+    recheck/tbd-needs-tracking-link:
+      severity: warn
+      message: '"%s" appears but "%s" was never introduced.'
+      assertions:
+        conditional:
+          first: '\bTBD\b'
+          second: 'https://github\.com/\S+/issues/\d+'
+    recheck/readability-floor:
+      severity: warn
+      message: 'Readability (%s) is %s; expected between %s and %s.'
+      assertions:
+        metric:
+          formula: flesch-reading-ease
+          min: 30
+    recheck/skill-size-budget:
+      severity: error
+      message: 'Document %s is %s; expected between %s and %s.'
+      appliesTo:
+        - '.claude/skills/**/SKILL.md'
+      assertions:
+        metric:
+          formula: word-count
+          max: 1500
+    recheck/us-spelling-check:
+      severity: warn
+      message: 'Unknown word "%s"%s'
+      assertions:
+        spelling:
+          vocab: [Redocly, Reunite]
+```
+
+## How to contribute
+
+See the [Recheck engine](../../CONTRIBUTING.md#recheck-engine) section of the root contributing guide.