i18n-arb

i18n-arb is a cursor rule for Cursor from first-fluke/fullstack-starter. It costs 0 tokens per session (370 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for managing user-facing text through ARB files, a standard format for translation messages. ARB remains the shared source for web, mobile, and other platform outputs.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps add or change interface text, use placeholders such as a user's name, name translation keys, and rebuild localization files.
Why use it?
It prevents translated text from being scattered through source code or generated files. Changes stay consistent because developers edit the source messages and regenerate the platform-specific files.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit It helps add or change interface text, use placeholders such as a user's name, name translation keys, and rebuild localization files.

Compare 6 cursor rules from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/first-fluke/fullstack-starter/i18n-arb
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/first-fluke/fullstack-starter

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for i18n-arb

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/first-fluke/fullstack-starter/i18n-arb/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/rules/first-fluke/fullstack-starter/i18n-arb)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/first-fluke/fullstack-starter/i18n-arb"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/first-fluke/fullstack-starter/i18n-arb/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for i18n-arb

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/first-fluke/fullstack-starter/i18n-arb"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/first-fluke/fullstack-starter/i18n-arb.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 370 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00000 $0.00370
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00148
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00037

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b6b85b4c4b2c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

i18n-arb 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.

.cursor/rules/i18n-arb.mdc · 21 lines

What it actually says

ARB-Based Localization

When ARB files exist in the project, they are the single source of truth for all user-facing strings — regardless of target platform. A build step generates the platform-specific artifacts from ARB (e.g. JSON for web, generated Dart for Flutter).

  1. Never hardcode UI strings — all user-visible text must come from ARB files (*.arb)
  2. Edit ARB first — when adding or changing UI text, update the ARB file, then run the i18n build
  3. Build after changes — run the project's i18n build task (e.g. mise i18n:build, or dart run build_runner build in a Flutter package) to regenerate localized output (JSON for web, generated Dart, etc.). Prefer the mise task when one exists.
  4. Generated output is never hand-edited — change the ARB and rebuild; treat the emitted JSON/Dart as derived artifacts
  5. Base locale — the primary ARB file (e.g., app_en.arb) is the reference; other locales derive from it
  6. Key naming — use camelCase keys describing the purpose, not the content: loginButton not clickHere
  7. Placeholders — use ICU message syntax for interpolation: "greeting": "Hello, {name}!"
  8. Do not translate keys — ARB keys are identifiers, always in English
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. 1mo ago First seen · 21 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A b6b85b4c4b2c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

i18n-arb is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository first-fluke/fullstack-starter (224 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 370 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 2026-09-03.