6. Add a Vale package and draft its bullets

Where you are

Files and gh publishing are gated under the shipped rules. The shipped rules are a floor; your project can run any style in Vale’s ecosystem.

Add the package

Edit .vale.ini. Add ai-tells to Packages and to BasedOnStyles:

StylesPath = styles
Vocab = Project
Packages = https://github.com/ifandelse/just-say-so/releases/download/v0.18.1/JustSaySo.zip, ai-tells

[*]
BasedOnStyles = JustSaySo, ai-tells

Run vale sync. ai-tells is a community package of 137 rules that flag the fingerprints of AI prose, every one at error level, and it pairs well with the shipped rules.

See what the agent will get

Run /just-say-so:doctor. The reply target now shows two styles: JustSaySo 6 of 6 rules on · ai-tells 137 of 137 rules on. That is what the hooks read before each injection. From the next context start, the rules text the agent gets ends with a line naming ai-tells rules at error level that no bullet describes, twelve at most, with a count of the rest. The model knows the names and nothing else about them. /just-say-so:rules does not show that line; it prints the manifest’s text without the adjustment.

Draft the bullets

/just-say-so:draft

The script lists every enabled error-level rule no bullet names, with its message, description, link, and a few of the tokens it looks for. The model groups them by theme and writes one bullet per theme, with a short text for the reminder, a full text, and the grouped rule ids, as a JSON fragment. It is a draft: read it, edit the sentences you disagree with, and save it as .just-say-so-rules.json in the project root. The plugin finds that file with no setting.

From the next context start, the reminder carries your sentences instead of the rule names.

Check

The doctor’s extra rules line names the file with added N, replaced 0, dropped 0, and the reply target reads JustSaySo 6 of 6 rules on · ai-tells 137 of 137 rules on.

Next

Reword a shipped bullet and write one of your own.