Intelligent Terminal is an experimental fork of Windows Terminal that adds native support for AI agents through the Agent Client Protocol. It is for Windows users who want to manage compatible agent command-line tools alongside terminal tabs, profiles, themes, shells, and keyboard shortcuts, and the catalogue entries provide instructions, skills, hooks, and a plugin for working with it.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to microsoft/intelligent-terminal. 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/microsoft/intelligent-terminal/main/.github/instructions/localization.instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/intelligent-terminalWrote 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/microsoft/intelligent-terminal/localization)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/microsoft/intelligent-terminal/localization"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/microsoft/intelligent-terminal/localization/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/microsoft/intelligent-terminal/localization"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/microsoft/intelligent-terminal/localization.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 | $0.00103 | $0.00103 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00041 | $0.00041 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00021 | $0.00021 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00010 |
Grade A, and why
intelligent-terminal localization.instructions.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.
What it actually says
Localization Instructions for .resw Resource Files
Auto-load .github/skills/ensure-localization/SKILL.md for .resw
localization work in src/cascadia/**/Resources/.
This wrapper only declares the current .resw file scope. The skill carries
the reusable principles, checker contract, and review or repair rules.
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 · -230 lines · -2,832 tokens per session bf64cb03215a
- 1mo ago First seen · 242 lines · 2,935 tokens per session scan A 82c42be81a18
intelligent-terminal localization.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository microsoft/intelligent-terminal (2,056 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session, about $0.0004 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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