What is roo-translate?

A translation workflow for localizing text in the Roo Code extension. Localization adapts an application’s language strings for different languages and regions.

Use it to translate a language, string key, file, or all supported languages in the extension and its web interface.

It provides a defined way to find affected text, update translations, and check for missing language entries.

roo-translate — Command by RooCodeInc

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/roocodeinc/roo-code/roo-translate

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RooCodeInc/Roo-Code

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 449 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00010	$0.00449
Opus 5	$0.00005	$0.00225
Sonnet 5	$0.00002	$0.00090
Haiku 4.5	$0.00001	$0.00045

Measured 2d ago against content hash b24aba8b1abc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

roo-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 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

roo-translate — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
roo-translate — 92% identical, 32 lines differ

.roo/commands/roo-translate.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

Perform translation and localization tasks for the Roo Code extension. This command activates the translation workflow with comprehensive i18n guidelines.

Quick Start

Identify the translation scope:
- If a specific language code is provided (e.g., de, zh-CN), focus on that language
- If all is specified, translate to all supported languages
- If a string key is provided, locate and translate that specific string
- If a file path is provided, work with that translation file
Supported languages: ca, de, en, es, fr, hi, id, it, ja, ko, nl, pl, pt-BR, ru, tr, vi, zh-CN, zh-TW
Translation locations:
- Core Extension: src/i18n/locales/
- WebView UI: webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/

Workflow

If adding new strings:
- Add the English string first
- Ask for confirmation before translating to other languages
- Use apply_diff for efficient file updates
If updating existing strings:
- Identify all affected language files
- Update English first, then propagate changes

Validate your changes:

node scripts/find-missing-translations.js

Key Guidelines

Use informal speech (e.g., "du" not "Sie" in German)
Keep technical terms like "token", "Prompt" in English
Preserve all {{variable}} placeholders exactly
Use apply_diff instead of write_to_file for existing files

Examples

/roo-translate de - Focus on German translations
/roo-translate all welcome.title - Translate a specific key to all languages
/roo-translate zh-CN src/i18n/locales/zh-CN/core.json - Work on specific file

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.

2d ago First seen · 51 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A b24aba8b1abc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

roo-translate is a command published in the GitHub repository RooCodeInc/Roo-Code (24,315 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 449 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 2026-08-30.

Localization Productivity

translation-review

全面审核翻译质量: 对比原版、专项检查、质量评分与发布验证, 发现问题时自动衔接修复流程.

Linfee/spec-kit-cn · 34 tokens

03-gap

Translate the visibility baseline + brand context into a ranked list of content actions that should move the needle. Identifies absent queries, contested queries, and competitor-displacement opportunities. Outputs contentpriorities.json validated against schema. Use after 02-audit; consumed by 04-content-brief.

ViryaZheng/recomby-geo · 58 tokens

roo-translate