translate-book: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

translate-book CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from trananhtung/translate-book. It costs 843 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for translating books from PDF, DOCX, or EPUB files into another language. It uses document conversion, parallel translation work, terminology tracking, and final document building.

In plain words
What is it for?
Converting books, translating their sections, maintaining a glossary, checking translation state, and producing HTML, DOCX, EPUB, or PDF output.
Why use it?
It organizes large-book translation into tracked chunks and helps keep terms consistent across them. It also supports rebuilding the translated material into common document formats.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

This is trananhtung/translate-book's own configuration. It tells Claude Code 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 →

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/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/trananhtung/translate-book

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 843 This file is loaded in full into every session.
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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 $0.00843 $0.00843
Opus 5 $0.00421 $0.00421
Sonnet 5 $0.00169 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00084 $0.00084

Measured 8d ago against content hash 36374fd97537, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

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 8d 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.

CLAUDE.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Project

translate-book is a Claude Code 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 Claude Code / 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/pdf_qa.py — Render the built PDF to page images + cheap programmatic layout checks; backs the Step 7.5 QA visual-check loop (render samples/renders pages, clean deletes cached artifacts to force a rebuild)
  • scripts/calibre_html_publish.py — Calibre format conversion wrapper
  • scripts/template.html, scripts/template_ebook.html — HTML templates

Testing changes

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"

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

Conventions

  • Only chunk*.md naming — no page* legacy support
  • Pipeline output artifacts use the canonical names book.html, book_doc.html, book.docx, book.epub, book.pdf. Internal scripts and skip/cache logic depend on these names; if title-based filenames are added later they must be optional aliases/copies, not silent replacements
  • 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 Claude Code, OpenClaw, Codex)
  • The Step 7.5 QA loop must call pdf_qa.py clean before each rebuild — a template-only edit is invisible to the mtime-based build skip-logic, so the cached book.* artifacts must be deleted to force regeneration (do not add mtime tracking to work around this — see "Do not" below)
  • 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 · 51 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. 8d ago First seen · 51 lines · 843 tokens per session scan A 36374fd97537

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translate-book CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository trananhtung/translate-book (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 843 tokens to every session, about $0.0042 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.

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