localize

An iOS localization command for finding user-facing strings and preparing translation files. Localization adapts an app to different languages, regions, writing directions, dates, numbers, and plural forms.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract strings, generate .strings and .stringsdict files, support plural rules and right-to-left layouts, and target multiple languages.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to find hardcoded text manually and helps keep translations and language-specific formatting organized.

Command

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 commands/carolanelfbv/ios-development-agents/localize
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CarolaneLFBV/ios-development-agents
Per session 10 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 472 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 $0.00010 $0.00472
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00236
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00094
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00047

Measured 2d ago against content hash c4fae3f0f81d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

localize 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 2d 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.

commands/localize.md · 77 lines

What it actually says

/ios:localize - Localization & i18n

Localize $ARGUMENTS with string extraction and translation management.

Delegation

Executed by the swiftui-specialist (view-facing strings, RTL, Dynamic Type). Spawn it via the Task tool for extraction and .strings/.stringsdict generation.

Arguments

Flag Values Default Description
--languages <langs> en Target languages (comma-separated)
--extract - - Extract localizable strings
--generate - - Generate .strings files

Features

Feature Description
String Extraction Find hardcoded strings in code
.strings Generation Create localization files
Plural Rules Handle plural forms correctly
RTL Support Right-to-left layout support
Date/Number Locale-aware formatting

Localization Patterns

// Basic String
Text("Hello, World!")
// Becomes:
Text("greeting_hello", bundle: .main)

// String with Variable
Text("Welcome, \(username)")
// Becomes:
Text("greeting_welcome \(username)")

// Plural
// Localizable.stringsdict for proper pluralization

.strings Format

/* Greeting shown on home screen */
"greeting_hello" = "Hello, World!";

/* Welcome message with username */
"greeting_welcome %@" = "Welcome, %@!";

Examples

/ios:localize . --extract --languages "en,fr,es"
/ios:localize LoginView.swift --generate
/ios:localize . --languages "en,de,ja,zh"

Output

# Localization: [Target]
## Languages: List of target languages
## Extracted Strings: Count
## Generated Files: .strings, .stringsdict
## RTL Support: Status
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. 2d ago First seen · 77 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A c4fae3f0f81d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

localize is a command published in the GitHub repository CarolaneLFBV/ios-development-agents (7 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 472 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.