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Allow a term the checker flags

Goal. A word on the banned list that is a real term in this project stops being flagged.

Precondition. A .vale.ini in the project. Without one, the command says where to add one.

  1. Run the command with the term as it appears in the text, quoted when it holds spaces:

    /just-say-so:allow "robust regression"
  2. The term goes into styles/config/vocabularies/Project/accept.txt. When .vale.ini lacks StylesPath or Vocab, the command adds StylesPath = styles and Vocab = Project first.

  3. Confirm with the doctor: the vocabulary line reads Project (N accepted).

An entry is a case-sensitive regular expression. robust regression does not cover Robust regression at the start of a sentence. Run the command once per spelling, or edit accept.txt and write [Rr]obust regression. Quote the whole collocation, not the bare word, so the exemption covers the one use and not every robust.

In block mode the message the agent gets tells it to suggest this command to you, quoting the flagged collocation. The agent never edits the vocabulary itself; a hook asks you to confirm if it tries.