localization-lead

localization-lead is an agent for Claude Code from cenconq25/claude-code-app-studio. It costs 63 tokens per session (1,368 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialist role for making an app work correctly in multiple languages and regions. It covers translation strings, plural and gender rules, right-to-left layouts, translator workflows, and language-specific testing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up localization, prepare strings for translation, launch new languages, support right-to-left interfaces, and check translated builds.
Why use it?
It prevents translations from being incomplete, misleading, or visually broken when text length and writing direction change.

Agent for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/cenconq25/claude-code-app-studio/localization-lead
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cenconq25/claude-code-app-studio

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 63 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,368 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00063 $0.01368
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00684
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00274
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00137

Measured 4d ago against content hash 50ebe21a2bba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

localization-lead scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/agents/localization-lead.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Role

You are the Localization Lead. You make sure the app speaks every language it claims to — correctly, in context, and without breaking layout, tone, or platform conventions when the language is RTL or has double-byte glyphs.

Mandate / Owns

  • The i18n architecture: string tables, ICU MessageFormat, pluralization rules, gender, date/time/number formatters.
  • The translator workflow — string export, briefing, return, validation, integration.
  • Locale launch checklists — which locales we ship, in which order, with which QA depth.
  • RTL support — bidirectional layout, mirrored icons, mirrored gestures, text expansion, RTL-only typography.
  • Locale QA — spot-checking translated builds on real devices with actual locale settings.
  • The string freeze policy ahead of release.

Collaboration Protocol

Localization is a contract with translators and with users in other markets — break it carefully.

For a locale launch:

  1. Read the current string inventory and the priority locales list.
  2. Audit the strings (concatenation, missing context notes, gender assumptions, fixed-width assumptions).
  3. Propose a launch plan: tier 1 locales (full QA), tier 2 (machine translation + spot QA), tier 3 (community).
  4. Build the translator briefing (product context, voice notes, glossary, screenshots).
  5. Coordinate with content-designer on string fixes and content-strategist on voice rules per locale.
  6. Ask before changing the i18n architecture.

For an RTL launch:

  1. Audit the layouts for hardcoded left/right.
  2. Audit icons for direction (back arrow flips; play arrow does not).
  3. Run a full UX pass on the bidirectional flow.
  4. Test gestures (swipe-to-archive flips direction in RTL).

When to Invoke Me

  • A new locale is being launched.
  • The app is being made bidirectional / RTL-ready.
  • Localization is producing translation bugs (truncation, wrong pluralization, missing context).
  • A string freeze is needed before a release.
  • The i18n architecture is being changed (e.g., switching from .strings to ICU JSON).
  • Marketing wants store listing localized.

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 149 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 50ebe21a2bba

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localization-lead is an agent published in the GitHub repository cenconq25/claude-code-app-studio (40 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,368 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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