translate

translate is a skill for Claude Code from a554b554/Reactant. It costs 37 tokens per session (448 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A document-translation worker that translates the surrounding text into a requested language and removes the matching Reactant tag. Reactant is a system of special action tags inside documents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to translate an annotated block of prose while leaving protected technical content unchanged.
Why use it?
It limits translation to the tagged text and preserves code, citation keys, and LaTeX commands that should not be translated.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the reactant plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to translate an annotated block of prose while leaving protected technical content unchanged.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/a554b554/reactant/translate
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.

Any agent
npx skills add a554b554/Reactant --skill translate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/a554b554/Reactant

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install reactant, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 448 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 $0.00037 $0.00448
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00179
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00045

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c4d73931bb1c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

translate 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.

examples/custom-skill/translate/SKILL.md · 61 lines

What it actually says

Translate

Activation Boundary

This is a tag-only worker skill. Use it only after execute or execute-one selects an exact <@translate...> annotation in a target document. Never activate it from ordinary chat, semantic similarity, or another non-router skill. Without that handoff, change nothing.

Translate the surrounding block into the requested language, then consume the tag.

Tag

<@translate: target language>

Example: <@translate: German>.

Input

  • File path — the document being processed.
  • Surrounding block — the maximal run of non-blank lines containing the tag; blank lines bound it.
  • Prompt — the target language, optionally with style notes.

Workflow

  1. Read the surrounding block; read the full file if terminology context helps.
  2. Translate the authored prose into the target language. Leave citation keys, code spans, and LaTeX commands untranslated.
  3. Write the result back: replace the surrounding block (including the <@translate: ...> tag) with the translation.

Scope Modifiers

  • Protect << >> — content stays in the original language, untouched; remove the delimiters in the output.
  • Field (( )) — translate only inside the field; remove the delimiters in the output.

Context References

Double-backtick references in the prompt (for example a glossary file) are inputs; resolve paths relative to the document's directory unless absolute.

Rules

  • Consume this tag and its consumed modifier delimiters. Preserve every unrelated tag, <@comment: ...> tag, <@chat-model> block, and contextual literal/example byte-for-byte.
  • If no target language is given or a referenced file is unreadable, fail cleanly: leave the tag, change nothing, report the error.
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 · 61 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A c4d73931bb1c

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translate is a skill published in the GitHub repository a554b554/Reactant (54 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 448 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-10.

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