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* docs: lint prose with Vale

Add Vale with an in-repo style, .vale/styles/pnpm, that turns the
writing rules in AGENTS.md and the Google developer documentation style
guide into lint rules. The stock Vale packages (Google, Microsoft,
RedHat, write-good) were too noisy to block on, for example 1,300
passive-voice hits in the v12 docs alone, so the rules are written for
this repo, following the GitLab model. Each one links the guideline it
enforces.

Levels:
- error, fails CI: dashes, plain-word substitutions, condescending
  words, "please", "note that", hedges, puffery, optional plurals,
  exclamation marks, ellipses, curly quotes, generic link text, product
  spellings, sentence-case headings, repeated words, double spaces,
  implementation history in comments; in changesets, bold or italic
  emphasis, internal names and release-line names.
- warning: future tense, sentences over 30 words, "instead of" and
  "so that" tails in changesets.
- suggestion: passive voice.

.vale.ini scopes the rules. Docs get every rule. Contributor Markdown
and code comments keep dashes and headings as warnings until their
roughly 8,100 em dashes are rewritten. Released changesets stay in
.changeset/ and are not rewritten, so lint-prose.mjs lints only the
changesets added since PROSE_BASE (the PR base in CI).

The prose workflow installs a pinned, checksum-verified Vale release and
runs `pnpm lint:prose`. The rest of this change rewrites the existing
docs, READMEs, contributor Markdown, and code comments to pass the
error-level rules. Only prose and comment text changed. Renamed
headings keep their anchors.

Spelling stays with cspell, which checks identifiers that Vale does not
see.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: keep prose lint from flattening meaning

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scripts Scripts

How pnpm handles the scripts field of package.json.

Hidden scripts

Added in: v11.0.0

Scripts with names starting with . are hidden. They cannot be run directly via pnpm run and are omitted from the pnpm run listing. Hidden scripts can only be called from other scripts.

{
  "scripts": {
    ".helper": "echo 'I am hidden'",
    "build": "pnpm run .helper && tsc"
  }
}

In this example, pnpm run .helper would fail, but pnpm run build would succeed because .helper is called from another script.

Environment variables

pnpm sets the following environment variables during lifecycle script execution:

  • npm_package_name: the package name
  • npm_package_version: the package version
  • npm_lifecycle_event: the name of the running script (e.g., postinstall)

:::note

Since v11, pnpm no longer populates npm_config_* environment variables from the pnpm configuration. Only the well-known npm_* variables above are set, matching Yarn's behavior.

:::

Built-in command and script name conflicts

Added in: v11.0.0

The following built-in commands prefer user scripts: clean, setup, deploy, and rebuild. If your package.json defines a script with one of these names, pnpm <name> will execute the script instead of the built-in command.

To force the built-in command, use pnpm pm <name>.

Lifecycle scripts

pnpm:devPreinstall

Runs when pnpm install runs in the project itself, including in CI. It does not run when the package is installed as a dependency of another project.

Runs before any dependency is installed.

This script is executed only when set in the root project's package.json.

Since v11.28.0, installs that skip devDependencies, such as pnpm install --prod, do not run it.

preinstall of the root project

Since v11.28.0, the root project's preinstall script runs before dependencies are resolved and linked. A guard such as npx only-allow pnpm can therefore stop the install before pnpm populates node_modules.

prepare

The root project's prepare script runs after pnpm install. It is skipped, since v11.28.0, by installs that skip devDependencies (such as pnpm install --prod), by pnpm install given package arguments, and for the project that pnpm deploy deploys.

Uninstall scripts

Added in: v11.28.0

pnpm remove runs the project's own preuninstall, uninstall, and postuninstall scripts. preuninstall and uninstall run before dependencies are unlinked, and a failure in either aborts the removal. postuninstall runs after unlinking completes. The ignoreScripts setting and --lockfile-only skip all three.