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lexaudit

Vadim Nareyko

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Locale vocabulary audit: calques, inventeds, foreign slips. Shells out to the local lexaudit CLI — no cloud.
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Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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lexaudit (VS Code)

Shells out to the local lexaudit CLI. Detection only: no rewrite, no cloud.

Grew out of auditing multilingual courses and encyclopedias at FairHelm. Package and CLI: github.com/nareyko/lexaudit.

Requirements

Install the CLI first:

pipx install lexaudit
# or: uv tool install lexaudit

Install the extension

Editor Store
VS Code Visual Studio Marketplace
Cursor / VSCodium / other Open VSX clients Open VSX (after publish)

Or install a release .vsix from GitHub Releases.

Commands

  • lexaudit: Audit workspace: runs lexaudit audit --check and maps findings to Problems
  • lexaudit: Explain selection: runs lexaudit explain on the selected word

Settings

Setting Default Meaning
lexaudit.locale en Locale for the CLI
lexaudit.cli lexaudit Binary name or absolute path

Optional: put lexaudit.config.yaml in the workspace root.

Smoke (developers)

cd packages/vscode-lexaudit
npm run smoke
npm run package   # writes a .vsix (publish separately)

Privacy

Runs entirely on your machine via the local CLI. No telemetry, no cloud audit endpoint, no account required.

License

MIT, same as the lexaudit package. See the repository root LICENSE.

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