| polylint |
The product. The command is poly (with polylint as an alias) and the config file is poly.toml. |
| engine |
One tool as you configure it, under [engines.<id>]: ruff, oxc, rustfmt, quality, … Every finding names the engine that produced it. |
| component |
A signed, checksum-verified download that carries one or more engines (web, python, sql, sh, …). A core build fetches components on first use; the bundled build links them all in. See Components and offline use. |
| core build |
A release binary that downloads components. Every release target except Linux x86_64 musl. |
| bundled build |
The Linux x86_64 musl release binary: every engine and the MCP server linked in, nothing downloaded. |
| host tool |
A language’s canonical CLI that polylint runs as a subprocess when it is on PATH — rustfmt, gofmt, shellcheck by default, others opt-in. See Toolchains, runtimes and recipes. |
| recipe |
A built-in integration for an ecosystem tool (golangci-lint, hadolint, buf, …), enabled under [tools.<name>]: batched runs, parsed per-line findings, and for most an optional checksummed download. See Recipes. |
| catalog tool |
Any of the 348 tools in the embedded mdsf catalog, enabled under [tools.<name>]. Without a recipe it gives one verdict per file. See the tool catalog. |
| host runtime |
A JVM, Node or Python installation a recipe tool needs. polylint never bundles one. |
| tree-sitter tier |
Best-effort formatting for languages with no dedicated engine, from tree-sitter grammars fetched on demand. Formatting only; it establishes no lint coverage. |
| cross-cutting engine |
An engine that runs on every language: quality and astgrep (on by default), typos and uncomment (opt-in). |
| project check |
An engine that judges a whole tree rather than one file — Python type checking, skif, adrlint’s tree-wide rules. |
| whole-project phase |
The part of poly lint that runs whole-workspace tools from [hooks] (cargo clippy, cargo-deny, …) against the live worktree. Controlled by --workspace and [workspace] run. |
| skip |
A file a run did not check, always named with its reason. A skip that reflects a limit of polylint is charged against --deny-skips / --max-skips; one you asked for (--only, --skip, enabled = false) is not. |
