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The CSpell mono-repo, a spell checker for code.
Some videos related to CSpell and the Code Spell Checker for VS Code.
cspell-cli is useful for including cspell directly from GitHub.Example install: npm install -g git+https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-cli.
This will add the cspell-cli command, which is an alias of the cspell command.
| Link | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| rfc-0001 | Fixing common misspellings | Done |
| rfc-0002 | Improving Generated Suggestions | Done |
| rfc-0003 | Plug-ins: Adding file parsers | In Progress |
| rfc-0004 | Support Marking Issues as Known | Not started |
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| version | Node | Status | Maintenance | End of Free Support | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cspell | 10.x | 22.18.x | In Active Development | TBD | TBD |
| cspell | 9.x | 20.x | Maintenance | 2026-04-05 | 2026-10-01 |
| cspell | 8.x | 18.x | Maintenance | 2025-05-01 | 2025-06-01 |
| cspell | 7.x | 16.x | Paid support only[^1] | 2023-10-01 | 2023-11-07 |
| cspell | 6.x | 14.14.x | Paid support only[^1] | 2023-04-01 | 2023-05-01 |
| cspell | 5.x | 12.x | Paid support only[^1] | - | 2022-10-01 |
| cspell | 4.x | 10.x | Paid support only[^1] | - | 2022-05-01 |
[^1]: Support - Street Side Software
Contributions are welcome! See our contribution notes. Note: To add or remove words in a dictionary, visit cspell-dicts.
🙏 Special thanks to all of our amazing contributors! 🥰
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$ claude mcp add cspell \
-- python -m otcore.mcp_server <graph>