Chris Chinchilla
Supabase
An open grammar and style checker
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Vale was created as open source language “linter” to help people check their text for grammar and style rules, violations, and style. Especially in technical audiences, Vale has proven popular with several high profile companies and teams using it and a healthy ecosystem of rulesets and tooling.
However, for the most part Vale uses regular expression to check text and while this is effective, it means Vale has no context of what you’re actually writing. As an open source, locally run tool, this was always the point, but in the times of an AI writing assistant almost everywhere, people have come to expect more.
This presentation shows how efforts using the Vale MCP server and open models (as possible) are attempting to create a smarter, text assistant that merges Vale’s highly configurable rules with the power of LLMs to create an open and self-sovereign alternative to other closed source grammar checking tools.
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Chris is Documentation Team Lead at Supabase.
