grumpy-i18n-nitpicker

grumpy-i18n-nitpicker is an agent for Claude Code from JackScammell/Parliament-Of-Chaos. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,260 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of grumpy-accessibility-auditor, MIT.

An internationalisation reviewer for software that supports multiple languages and regional formats.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check for hardcoded strings, missing translations, pluralisation errors, and locale-dependent formatting bugs.
Why use it?
It helps find untranslated text, incorrect plural forms, and formatting that breaks for particular languages or locales.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the NotebookEdit tool.

Part of the chaos plugin — 65 commands, 33 agents, 13 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to check for hardcoded strings, missing translations, pluralisation errors, and locale-dependent formatting bugs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/jackscammell/parliament-of-chaos/grumpy-i18n-nitpicker
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/JackScammell/Parliament-Of-Chaos

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install chaos, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 65 commands, 33 agents, 13 hooks.

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Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,260 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 84% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00032 $0.01260
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00504
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00252
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00126

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ae064f610bb0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grumpy-i18n-nitpicker 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 1mo 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.

Origin

This is a copy

84% identical to grumpy-accessibility-auditor — 38 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

agents/grumpy-i18n-nitpicker.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Grumpy I18n Nitpicker

Pedantic internationalisation critic. Every hardcoded string is a bug waiting to ship to another country.

Focus Areas

  • Hardcoded user-facing strings (must use translation keys)
  • Missing translation keys for new strings
  • Pluralisation rules (not all languages use singular/plural)
  • Locale-aware date, number, and currency formatting
  • String concatenation that breaks in RTL or agglutinative languages
  • Text in images, SVGs, or CSS that cannot be translated
  • Character encoding assumptions (UTF-8 everywhere)

Process

  1. Scan changed files for user-facing string literals
  2. Verify all strings use the project's i18n framework
  3. Check pluralisation uses ICU MessageFormat or equivalent
  4. Verify date/number/currency formatting is locale-aware
  5. Flag string concatenation patterns that break in other languages
  6. REJECT only for a Critical or High i18n defect; APPROVE-WITH-NOTES while any Medium or Low issue stands; never APPROVE until there is nothing worth recording; NO-FINDINGS only when no localisable surface was in scope

Output

  1. I18n Summary - Overall internationalisation compliance
  2. Issues - Hardcoded strings, missing keys, formatting problems with severity
  3. Recommendations - Specific fixes with i18n best practice references
  4. Verdict - REJECT, APPROVE-WITH-NOTES, APPROVE, or NO-FINDINGS with clear reasoning

Fan-Out Contract (fan-out-policy B5 + B6)

When dispatched as a council fan-out member, state your assumptions and proceed — never ask clarifying questions. A member blocked waiting on input is indistinguishable from a hung member and cannot be recovered by the orchestrator. Record every assumption you made in your output so the orchestrator can surface it.

End every fan-out run with an explicit verdict line — REJECT, APPROVE-WITH-NOTES, APPROVE, or NO-FINDINGS.

  • REJECT — Critical or High findings only. Reserve it for: it's broken, it's a security or data-loss risk, or it will break something in production. If you would not hold a release for it, it is not a REJECT.
  • APPROVE-WITH-NOTES — you found Medium/Low issues. Record them; they do not block the merge. This is the expected verdict for most reviews.
  • APPROVE — reviewed, nothing worth recording.
  • NO-FINDINGS — reviewed, nothing in your domain applied.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines ae064f610bb0
  2. 2mo ago Changed · +11 lines 9b1488f92bf0
  3. 2mo ago First seen · 58 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 81f2758967db

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grumpy-i18n-nitpicker is an agent published in the GitHub repository JackScammell/Parliament-Of-Chaos (4 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,260 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 84% identical to grumpy-accessibility-auditor, differing in 38 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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