dictionary

features.dictionary.entries lists terms to flag. Each entry fires in the same hooks, with the same confirm flow, as the other style checks.

{
  "features": {
    "dictionary": {
      "entries": [
        { "id": "blacklist", "match": "startsWith", "value": "blacklist", "fix": "denylist" },
        { "id": "hope-helps", "match": "endsWith", "on": "line", "value": "Hope this helps!", "fix": "end on the last fact", "hooks": ["stop", "subagentStop"] },
        { "id": "ticket", "match": "regex", "value": "\\bJIRA-\\d+\\b", "fix": "link the ticket", "scopes": ["commit", "gh"] }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Field	Required	Values
`id`	yes	Lowercase letters, digits, and hyphens. The deny tag is `[concise:dictionary:<id>]`.
`match`	yes	`exact`, `contains`, `startsWith`, `endsWith`, or `regex`.
`value`	yes	The term, the phrase, or the regular expression.
`fix`	yes	What to write instead. The deny shows it.
`on`	no	`word` (default), `line`, or `text`. `regex` ignores it.
`caseSensitive`	no	`false` by default.
`flags`	no	Regex flags for `regex` entries. Default `i`. The scanner adds `g` and `d` and drops `y`.
`hooks`	no	`edit`, `bash`, `stop`, `subagentStop`. Absent means all 4.
`scopes`	no	`files`, `comments`, `code`, `gh`, `commit`, `command`, `reply`. Absent means every scope except `command` and `code`.
`enabled`	no	`false` switches the entry off. A switched-off entry needs only its `id`.

How on changes the match:

word: exact matches the whole word or phrase. startsWith, endsWith, and contains match inside a word and report the whole word. A word edge is any character other than a letter, a digit, or _, so C++ and #tag work as values.
line: the value is compared with each line, with leading and trailing spaces ignored. In a code comment, the comment marker is ignored as well.
text: the value is compared with the whole scanned span: a prose file, one comment run, a commit message, a gh body, or a reply.

For regex, a named group (?<hit>...) sets the part the deny quotes.

The hooks map to the text they scan: edit covers file writes, edits, and patches; bash covers git commit messages and gh bodies; stop covers the final reply; subagentStop covers subagent replies and SubagentHandback reports. concise-ignore, concise-ignore-file, allowList, bypass, ignoreGlobs, and styleIgnoreGlobs apply to dictionary findings. features.aiWriting.allow does not.

An entry that does not validate is skipped, and the hook reports it once per session. The settings console and concise-config refuse to save it. The feature id for BEC_FEATURE_* is dictionary.