i18n

Rules for internationalization, the practice of preparing software for multiple languages and regions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Managing JSON translation files, localization keys, and multi-language application logic.
Why use it?
They keep translation keys consistent, typed, and separate from interface code instead of leaving text hardcoded or assembled unpredictably.

Cursor rule for 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/virastack/ai/i18n
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/virastack/ai

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 323 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 $0.00000 $0.00323
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00161
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00032

Measured 2d ago against content hash 03dfd0015e81, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

i18n 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 2d 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • i18n — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
templates/core/.cursor/rules/i18n.mdc · 41 lines

What it actually says

Internationalization (i18n)

Constraints

  • Library Selection: Delegate specific hook/method usage to the framework constitution (nextjs.mdc or tanstack-start.mdc).
  • Keys: Use flat or max 3-level deep JSON structures. Use camelCase for keys.
  • SSOT: All translation keys MUST be defined in src/messages/.
  • Type Safety: Use the library's native type-generation features. Magic strings for keys are forbidden.
  • Namespacing: Use namespaces for features (e.g., auth.login, profile.settings) to maintain modularity.

Bans

  • Hardcoded strings in UI components.
  • Dynamic key construction (e.g., t("prefix." + variable)).
  • Reading locale via window.location or manual URL parsing.
  • JSON hierarchy deeper than 3 levels.
  • Async translation loading that causes layout shifts.

Correct Implementation

Incorrect Implementation

// BAN: Dynamic key generation const label = t("welcome_" + type);

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. 2d ago First seen · 41 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 03dfd0015e81

Subscribe to this mod's changes

i18n is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository virastack/ai (23 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 323 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.

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