@taskless/vale-win32-x64

The Vale executable for x86-64 Windows, redistributed as an npm package so that @taskless/cli can resolve and run it with no download step at install time.

What the published tarball holds

vale.exe, this README, Vale's upstream LICENSE, and package.json. Nothing else: no bin entry, no JavaScript, and no lifecycle script. A consumer locates the executable by resolving this package and running the file by path, so the binary is usable even where the consuming package manager refuses to run dependency build scripts, which pnpm 10 does by default.

os and cpu are declared, so this package installs only on a matching host and is skipped everywhere else without failing the install.

Versioning

Published versions are <valeVersion>-<yyyymmddhhmmss>: the upstream Vale release this package carries, then the UTC timestamp of the publishing run. 3.17.1-20260806120000 carries Vale 3.17.1. A plain 3.17.1 is never published.

Every published version is therefore a semver prerelease, which is the point: a caret or tilde range over the Vale version matches no published version, so a consumer has to name one exact version and cannot float across releases.

The version field in the repository is the placeholder 0.0.0. The release workflow overwrites it with the stamped version immediately before packing, and the placeholder is never itself published.

Where the binary comes from

The binary is not stored in this repository. .github/workflows/release-vale.yml downloads vale_<version>_Windows_64-bit.zip from the upstream release, checks the archive's SHA256 against the digest committed in .github/scripts/vale-manifest.json, refuses to go further on a mismatch, and only then unpacks vale.exe into the package. Reproducing a published tarball means re-running that fetch against the same upstream release; the committed digest is what makes the result independently checkable, since it is the same digest upstream publishes in vale_<version>_checksums.txt.

License

Vale is MIT licensed, Copyright (c) 2016 Joseph Kato (errata-ai). The upstream LICENSE ships in this package unmodified. This package redistributes that build and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Vale project.