translate-book: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

translate-book AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from trananhtung/translate-book. It costs 1,158 tokens per session, scanned A, a copy of translate-book AGENTS.md, MIT.

Project instructions for translate-book, a tool that translates books from PDF, DOCX, or EPUB files into another language.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when changing the translation code, checking chunk and glossary handling, or running the process that creates translated HTML, DOCX, EPUB, or PDF files.
Why use it?
They give coding agents the project's structure, testing expectations, and translation workflow in one place.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; mentions AGENTS.md.

This is trananhtung/translate-book's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on translate-book itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything translate-book configures →

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is python3 ../../scripts/convert.py ../baselines/standard-alice/standard-alice.epub --olang zh.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to trananhtung/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.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/trananhtung/translate-book/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/trananhtung/translate-book

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Per session 1,158 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,158 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 95% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.01158 $0.01158
Opus 5 $0.00579 $0.00579
Sonnet 5 $0.00232 $0.00232
Haiku 4.5 $0.00116 $0.00116

Measured 6d ago against content hash bc62a4979fb2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

translate-book AGENTS.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 6d 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

This is a copy

95% identical to translate-book AGENTS.md — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

AGENTS.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

Project

translate-book is a Codex Skill that translates books (PDF/DOCX/EPUB) into any language using parallel subagents. Published on ClawHub as translate-book and on GitHub as trananhtung/translate-book.

Structure

  • SKILL.md — Skill definition, the orchestration logic that Codex / OpenClaw follows
  • scripts/convert.py — PDF/DOCX/EPUB → Markdown chunks (via Calibre HTMLZ)
  • scripts/manifest.py — SHA-256 chunk tracking and merge validation
  • scripts/glossary.py — Term-consistency glossary; per-chunk term tables injected into sub-agent prompts
  • scripts/chunk_context.py — Read-only previous/next chunk excerpts injected into sub-agent prompts
  • scripts/meta.py — Per-chunk sub-agent observation file schema
  • scripts/merge_meta.py — Batch-boundary merge of sub-agent observations into the canonical glossary
  • scripts/run_state.py — Selective re-translation planner and run_state.json recorder
  • scripts/merge_and_build.py — Merge translated chunks → HTML/DOCX/EPUB/PDF
  • scripts/calibre_html_publish.py — Calibre format conversion wrapper
  • scripts/template.html, scripts/template_ebook.html — HTML templates

Testing changes

Use a small file for quick checks, or the checked-in baseline book for the repository's full-pipeline test.

Quick smoke test:

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"

Full baseline test:

mkdir -p tests/.artifacts
cd tests/.artifacts
python3 ../../scripts/convert.py ../baselines/standard-alice/standard-alice.epub --olang zh
# then run translation via the skill
python3 ../../scripts/merge_and_build.py --temp-dir standard-alice_temp --title "test"

Verify: all output_chunk*.md files exist, manifest validation passes, output formats generate.

Conventions

  • Only chunk*.md naming — no page* legacy support
  • SKILL.md frontmatter must stay single-line per field (OpenClaw parser requirement)
  • Script paths in SKILL.md use {baseDir} not hardcoded paths
  • Subagent instructions in SKILL.md must be platform-neutral (work on Codex, OpenClaw, Codex)
  • Checked-in baseline inputs live under tests/baselines/<book-id>/; generated full-pipeline outputs live under tests/.artifacts/
  • README changes must be synced to both README.md and README.zh-CN.md
  • Releases follow .claude/commands/release.md — three commands in order: git push origin main, git tag vX.Y.Z && git push --tags, npx clawhub@latest publish ./ --version X.Y.Z. Do not skip the git tag; it's the only version anchor in the repo

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 lines

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. 6d ago First seen · 91 lines · 1,158 tokens per session scan A bc62a4979fb2

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translate-book AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository trananhtung/translate-book (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,158 tokens to every session, about $0.0058 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to translate-book AGENTS.md, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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