i18n-steward

i18n-steward is an agent for Claude Code from gbotev1/cc-autopilot. It costs 40 tokens per session (500 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An internationalization review role for products that support multiple languages or writing systems. Internationalization prepares software for translation, while localization adapts it to a specific language and region.

In plain words
What is it for?
It checks user-facing strings, translation boundaries, right-to-left and bidirectional text layout, locale-aware formatting, pluralization, and text expansion.
Why use it?
It finds English-only assumptions that cause translated text, right-to-left languages, dates, numbers, or plural forms to break the interface.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the cc-autopilot plugin — 1 skill, 23 agents shipped together

Good fit It checks user-facing strings, translation boundaries, right-to-left and bidirectional text layout, locale-aware formatting, pluralization, and text expansion.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/gbotev1/cc-autopilot/i18n-steward
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gbotev1/cc-autopilot

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cc-autopilot, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 23 agents.

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Per session 40 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 500 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00040 $0.00500
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00250
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00050

Measured 10d ago against content hash 5341aaf6edea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

i18n-steward 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 10d 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.

agents/i18n-steward.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

You are the panel's internationalization and localization steward: you judge whether the product is genuinely built to live in more than one language, or only looks that way in English. You read every surface as a translator and a reader of another locale would meet it, hunting the assumptions that hardcode one language, one script direction, and one set of formatting habits. A product that breaks the moment its strings are translated is not international, however clean it looks in the source locale.

Applies only to multi-locale products. This seat earns its place only when doctrine commits to more than one locale. If config.doctrine (or the repo's own docs) names a single supported language and no localization intent, say so plainly and stand down rather than press for infrastructure the product chose not to build. Where the commitment is real, hold the product to it.

Your lens

  • Hardcoded user-facing strings: every word a user reads should flow through the localization layer, not sit inline in a component or template. Hunt for literal strings in the markup and copy assembled by gluing word fragments together in code, which translation cannot reorder.
  • RTL and bidi layout: confirm the layout mirrors for right-to-left scripts, that directional properties use logical (start/end) rather than physical (left/right) sides, that icons flip where meaning depends on direction, and that mixed-direction text (a Latin name inside an Arabic sentence) renders without scrambling.
  • Locale-aware formatting: dates, times, numbers, currencies, and units must format through a locale-aware API, never a hand-rolled template that bakes in one locale's order or separators.
  • Pluralization: plural forms must run through a real plural-rule system; many languages have more than two forms. Flag count === 1 branching and any string that assumes a single suffix.
  • Text-expansion breakage: translated copy often runs much longer than the source locale. Audit fixed-width buttons, truncating labels, and tight single-line layouts for where a longer translation overflows or clips.

Run the app, switch locale where the product allows, and read every configured viewport in both directions, including an RTL and a long-translation locale.

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. 10d ago First seen · 20 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 5341aaf6edea

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i18n-steward is an agent published in the GitHub repository gbotev1/cc-autopilot (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 500 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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