Rainman Translate Book is an agent skill that translates complete PDF, DOCX, or EPUB books into other languages by splitting them into chunks handled by parallel subagents. It is used with Codex, Claude Code, and OpenClaw to produce resumable, validated translations in several output formats.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to deusyu/translate-book. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/deusyu/translate-book/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deusyu/translate-bookWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/deusyu/translate-book/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/deusyu/translate-book/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/deusyu/translate-book/claude-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/deusyu/translate-book/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/deusyu/translate-book/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 5.1 | $0.00943 | $0.00943 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00377 | $0.00377 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00189 | $0.00189 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00094 | $0.00094 |
Grade A, and why
translate-book CLAUDE.md 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
CLAUDE.md
Project
translate-book is an agent skill for Codex, Claude Code, and OpenClaw that translates books (PDF/DOCX/EPUB) into any language using parallel subagents. Published on ClawHub as translate-book and on GitHub as deusyu/translate-book.
Structure
SKILL.md— Skill definition, the orchestration logic that Codex / Claude Code / OpenClaw followsscripts/convert.py— PDF/DOCX/EPUB → Markdown chunks (via Calibre HTMLZ); Markdown input (e.g. from MinerU/Marker) skips Calibrescripts/manifest.py— SHA-256 chunk tracking and merge validationscripts/glossary.py— Term-consistency glossary; per-chunk term tables injected into sub-agent promptsscripts/chunk_context.py— Read-only previous/next chunk excerpts injected into sub-agent promptsscripts/meta.py— Per-chunk sub-agent observation file schemascripts/merge_meta.py— Batch-boundary merge of sub-agent observations into the canonical glossaryscripts/run_state.py— Selective re-translation planner and run_state.json recorderscripts/merge_and_build.py— Merge translated chunks → HTML/DOCX/EPUB/PDFscripts/calibre_html_publish.py— Calibre format conversion wrapperscripts/template.html,scripts/template_ebook.html— HTML templates
Prerequisites
- Python 3.12+ — the version CI runs.
- Unit tests need nothing else. Every third-party import in
scripts/is guarded (try/except ImportErroror function-local), so the suite runs on a bare stdlib. - The full pipeline additionally needs Calibre (
ebook-convert) and Pandoc binaries, plus thepypandoc,beautifulsoup4, andmarkdownpackages. Missing pieces degrade individual output formats rather than failing the run.
Testing changes
Unit tests (what CI runs — fast, no setup):
python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -p 'test_*.py' -v
python3 -m compileall scripts tests
Then test with a small PDF to verify the full pipeline:
python3 scripts/convert.py /path/to/small.pdf --olang zh
# then run translation via the skill
python3 scripts/merge_and_build.py --temp-dir <name>_temp --title "test"
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.
- 1mo ago Changed · +16 tokens per session 60ce0d32ec2e
- 1mo ago Changed · +17 lines · +209 tokens per session 9faf9a500f43
- 1mo ago First seen · 49 lines · 718 tokens per session scan A ad208b20ca4e
translate-book CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository deusyu/translate-book (2,142 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 943 tokens to every session, about $0.0038 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.
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