translate

translate is a command for Claude Code from ishwarjha/legalant. It costs 9 tokens per session (175 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A legal-document translation workflow that converts text from any language into English. It keeps legal terms and document structure, and presents the original and translation side by side.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for contracts, deeds, and pasted legal text in another language. It can provide explanatory footnotes and DOCX and HTML output.
Why use it?
It reduces the manual work of translating contracts and other legal papers while keeping clauses, headings, and numbering aligned. It also points out terms or legal ideas that need explanation.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the legalant plugin — 4 skills, 16 commands, 18 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it for contracts, deeds, and pasted legal text in another language. It can provide explanatory footnotes and DOCX and HTML output.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/ishwarjha/legalant/translate
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ishwarjha/legalant

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install legalant, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 16 commands, 18 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 175 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 $0.00009 $0.00175
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00088
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00035
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00017

Measured 10d ago against content hash e3035fc677a9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

translate 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.

legalant/commands/translate.md · 22 lines

What it actually says

Invoke the translation-agent sub-agent to translate a legal document.

Document or text to translate:

$ARGUMENTS

The agent will:

  1. Detect the source language automatically
  2. Translate to English with legal term preservation
  3. Produce bilingual output (source + translation side by side)
  4. Flag untranslatable terms or legal concepts with explanatory footnotes
  5. Preserve all document structure (clauses, headings, paragraph numbering)
  6. Generate translation-[YYYYMMDD-HHMM].docx + .html

HITL Gate fires before delivery — respond with APPROVED or REVISE: [terminology corrections].

Usage: /translate documents/sale_deed_hindi.pdf or /translate [paste Marathi text here]

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 · 22 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A e3035fc677a9

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translate is a command published in the GitHub repository ishwarjha/legalant (6 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 175 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.