adapto-translate

adapto-translate is a skill for Claude Code from adaptocms/adapto-cms-agent-skills. It costs 64 tokens per session (2,544 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A translation workflow for adapting existing website articles, pages, categories, and short interface text into another language that is already enabled on the site.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to translate one item or a collection of items after the target language is enabled, with checks that the translated structure matches the source.
Why use it?
It helps prevent incomplete translations that lose paragraphs, formatting, media, or replacement fields, while keeping translated items linked to their originals.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is silently destroy meaning (§7 / [sub-agents.md](../../shared/sub-agents.md)). If the current session/sub-agent.

Part of the adapto plugin — 16 skills, 3 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to translate one item or a collection of items after the target language is enabled, with checks that the translated structure matches the source.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adaptocms/adapto-cms-agent-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/adaptocms/adapto-cms-agent-skills/adapto-translate

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install adapto, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 3 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,544 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 $0.00064 $0.02544
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01272
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00509
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00254

Measured 10d ago against content hash 32651f110487, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adapto-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 10d 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.

plugin/skills/adapto-translate/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

adapto:translate

Translates existing content into another already-enabled language, linked to the source via translation_of_id. A structural-parity gate prevents broken translations (lost paragraphs, dropped markup/media, mangled placeholders). Works single-item or across a corpus.

Model tier (hard rule): the translation step runs at the top tier (Opus-class) — lower tiers silently destroy meaning (§7 / sub-agents.md). If the current session/sub-agent can't run at the top tier, warn and stop; never translate at a lower tier.

When to use

  • "Translate this article/page into <lang>", "localize my site into <lang>", "translate the blog corpus".
  • After source content exists (e.g. from adapto:content-seed) and the target language is enabled on the tenant.

When not to use

  • Adding/enabling a new language — that's adapto project update --languages (a project setting, and a replace-not-append one — conventions §5), not this skill. Translate only into already-enabled codes.
  • Creating source content → adapto:content-seed.
  • Just checking the environment → adapto:doctor.

Inputs

  • Source item(s) by id or slug (get / get-by-slug / list).
  • Source + target language. The target must be enabled on the tenant — discover via adapto auth orgs --json; an unsupported target → stop and offer to enable it as a separate, confirmed step (adapto project update --languages <existing + new> — conventions §5). Never enable one mid-run.
  • Glossary _adapto_glossary if present (cache to .adapto/glossary.md) — its terms/brand names are preserved verbatim. Optional; proceed without if absent (note it wasn't applied).
  • Project context (.adapto/project.md / _adapto_project_config) for voice consistency.
  • Mode: single-item (<type> + id/slug) or corpus (<type> + filter, e.g. --status published).

Outputs

  • Translated entries created via create-translation (linked by translation_of_id, slug = source slug).
  • A local per-language draft at .adapto/drafts/<YYYY-MM-DD>-<slug>.<lang>.md (frontmatter with language + translation_of, and the translated body) — the reviewable file artifact, matching how content-create writes originals so a translation isn't reviewable only in the CMS.
  • For pieces that have one, a target-language _adapto_seo item (meta/OG/JSON-LD localized), and the ledger updated (pieces[].translations[<lang>]).
  • A report of written + skipped (with parity-failure reasons). Article translations carry ai_generated provenance.
  • Next step: suggest reviewing the per-language drafts (the local md or the dev server), then adapto:publish to take them live. Offer to translate into another enabled language too.

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 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. 10d ago First seen · 145 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 32651f110487

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adapto-translate is a skill published in the GitHub repository adaptocms/adapto-cms-agent-skills (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 2,544 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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