i18n-mandatory

i18n-mandatory is a cursor rule for Cursor from AlphaBitCore/nexus-gateway. It costs 0 tokens per session (443 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A rule for putting every piece of text shown in a React user interface through react-i18next, a library that supplies translated text. New translation keys must be added to the English, Chinese, and Spanish files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when editing labels, buttons, placeholders, errors, tooltips, empty states, or other visible text in the specified React application.
Why use it?
It prevents hardcoded interface text from being missed during translation and gives the project a check for missing or mismatched language entries.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

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 rules/alphabitcore/nexus-gateway/i18n-mandatory
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlphaBitCore/nexus-gateway

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 443 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00443
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00221
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00089
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00044

Measured 6d ago against content hash dab3910baa3c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

i18n-mandatory 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.

.cursor/rules/i18n-mandatory.mdc · 60 lines

What it actually says

i18n mandatory (binding)

You are editing UI code. Every user-visible string in JSX must go through t('namespace:section.key') from react-i18next. Never hardcode English strings in components.

Surfaces this rule covers:

  • Labels, titles, descriptions.
  • Placeholders.
  • Button text.
  • Table headers.
  • Error messages.
  • Empty states.
  • Tooltips.

How to add a new key

  1. Add to all three locale files:
    • packages/control-plane-ui/src/i18n/locales/en/pages.json (or common.json / nav.json).
    • packages/control-plane-ui/src/i18n/locales/zh/....
    • packages/control-plane-ui/src/i18n/locales/es/....
  2. Copy to packages/control-plane-ui/public/locales/{en,zh,es}/....
  3. Verify key counts match across all 3 locales:
npm run check:i18n

CI gate. Pre-merge required.

Technical terms

Stay in English across all locales: API, SSO, Provider, Model, Agent, Device, Hook, Token, mTLS, OAuth, PKCE, JWT, etc.

Forbidden

<button>Save</button>                // ❌ hardcoded
<input placeholder="Email" />        // ❌ hardcoded
<h1>Dashboard</h1>                   // ❌ hardcoded

Correct

<button>{t('pages:settings.save')}</button>
<input placeholder={t('common:fields.email')} />
<h1>{t('pages:dashboard.title')}</h1>

Skipping this rule requires explicit user approval in chat.

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 · 60 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A dab3910baa3c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

i18n-mandatory is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository AlphaBitCore/nexus-gateway (23 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 443 tokens. 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.