check-spelling
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Check and fix spelling in project source files using cSpell
1 other project uses a version of this, 1 of them edited.
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- Azure/azure-sdk-for-rustedited, first seen Oct 13, 2026
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- Azure/azure-sdk-for-rust★ 88719% same
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How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
In this repository2 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
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The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
5 rules. About 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 4 are very specific to this project.
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Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈1
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
4
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 10
Run npm install from the repository root to install cspell from devDependencies in the root package.json.
- Very specific: line 24
Run npx cspell lint --config .cspell.json .
- Very specific: line 30
Add remaining words to .cspell.json:
- Very specific: line 32
If a word appears only in files matching an existing override filename glob, add it to that override's words array.
- Distinctive: line 43
Run the same command again used to check spelling.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Spell checking
Installation and usage
Run npm install from the repository root to install cspell from devDependencies in the root package.json. Then run npx cspell <command> to use the locally installed version.
Configuration
The cSpell configuration is in .cspell.json at the repository root. When running any cspell command, pass --config .cspell.json.
The configuration has the following structure:
words: array of accepted words applied repo-wide.overrides: array of per-glob overrides, each with afilenameglob and its ownwordsarray. For example,**/tsconfig.jsonhas its own word list.ignorePaths: array of paths excluded from spell checking.
Check spelling
Run npx cspell lint --config .cspell.json . to check spelling across the repository.
Fix spelling
Show a summary of the misspelling to the user. Prompt the user for which words should be replaced with another word.
Add remaining words to .cspell.json:
- If a word appears only in files matching an existing override
filenameglob, add it to that override'swordsarray. - Otherwise, add it to the top-level
wordsarray.
Seldom used words can be ignored within the file they are used by adding an appropriate comment e.g.:
// cspell:ignore <word>Testing
Run the same command again used to check spelling. All misspellings should be fixed.
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