diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index ec38ba1b..0bca5979 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ repos:
 
       # Vale enforces prose style rules, such as banning em dashes, in
       # reStructuredText and Markdown files.
-      # The rules come from the ``ClearProse`` package pinned in ``.vale.ini``,
+      # The rules come from the ``ai-tells`` package pinned in ``.vale.ini``,
       # which ``vale sync`` downloads into the (gitignored) ``styles``
       # directory.
       # Vale needs ``rst2html`` from Docutils on the ``PATH`` to parse
diff --git a/.vale.ini b/.vale.ini
index e111c046..250e9b2d 100644
--- a/.vale.ini
+++ b/.vale.ini
@@ -1,7 +1,15 @@
 StylesPath = styles
 MinAlertLevel = error
 
-Packages = https://github.com/adamtheturtle/vale-style-clear-prose/releases/download/v1.1.0/ClearProse.zip
+Packages = https://github.com/tbhb/vale-ai-tells/releases/download/v1.29.0/ai-tells.zip
 
 [*.{rst,md}]
-BasedOnStyles = ClearProse
+BasedOnStyles = ai-tells
+
+# These rules misclassify established technical, example, or release-note prose
+# in this repository. All other ai-tells rules remain enforced.
+ai-tells.ColonUsage = NO
+ai-tells.FigurativeLands = NO
+ai-tells.FormalTransitions = NO
+ai-tells.OverusedVocabularyVerbs = NO
+ai-tells.VerbTricolon = NO