XcodeStringsHelper

XcodeStringsHelper is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AFK-surf/OpenBridge. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,119 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line tool for managing Xcode .xcstrings files, which store app text and its translations. It checks translation coverage, removes obsolete entries, fixes inconsistent keys, and finds missing translations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan one localization file or a whole project, check translation completeness, preview or remove stale strings, fix keys to match English text, and find untranslated entries.
Why use it?
It helps locate incomplete, stale, or mismatched localization data across an Xcode project.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /Users/qaq/Desktop/XcodeStringsHelper.

Good fit Use it to scan one localization file or a whole project, check translation completeness, preview or remove stale strings, fix keys to match English text, and find untranslated entries.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

There is no command for this one: it runs only inside a plugin, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it. The source is linked below.

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,119 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 $0.01119
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00560
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00224
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00112

Measured 8d ago against content hash 32675d9f49f0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

XcodeStringsHelper 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 8 executable files (comps/__init__.py, comps/check.py, comps/find_untranslated.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

macos/DevKit/XcodeStringsHelper/SKILL.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

XcodeStringsHelper Skill

A tool for managing Xcode .xcstrings localization files.

Quick Start

cd /Users/qaq/Desktop/XcodeStringsHelper
python3 i18n.py <command> <path> [options]

Path can be:

  • A single .xcstrings file
  • A project directory (recursively scans all .xcstrings files)

Commands

check - Check translation completeness

python3 i18n.py check /path/to/project
python3 i18n.py check /path/to/Localizable.xcstrings

Reports incomplete translations and stale entries for all xcstrings files.

prune - Remove stale strings

# Preview what would be removed
python3 i18n.py prune /path/to/project --dry-run

# Actually remove stale strings
python3 i18n.py prune /path/to/project

Removes entries marked extractionState=stale (no longer in source code).

fix-keys - Fix inconsistent keys

# Find inconsistent keys
python3 i18n.py fix-keys /path/to/project --find-only

# Fix keys to match English values
python3 i18n.py fix-keys /path/to/project

Updates keys to match their English translation values.

find-missing - Find untranslated strings

# Check default languages (ja, de, fr, es, ko, zh-Hans)
python3 i18n.py find-missing /path/to/project

# Check specific languages
python3 i18n.py find-missing /path/to/project -l zh-Hans,ja

update - Update translations

# Fix English anchors and states
python3 i18n.py update /path/to/project

# Apply translations from JSON
python3 i18n.py update /path/to/project -t translations.json

context - Dump context for LLM translation (with pagination)

# Get first page of untranslated strings with source context
python3 i18n.py context /path/to/project -l zh-Hans

# Specify page number and page size
python3 i18n.py context /path/to/project -l zh-Hans --page 2 --page-size 5

# Customize context lines (before/after)
python3 i18n.py context /path/to/project -l zh-Hans --context 5

Outputs:

  • Each untranslated string with its English value
  • Source code context where the string is used
  • Saves to <project>/i18n_context.json

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 lines

Files

What ships with it

10 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 173 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 32675d9f49f0

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XcodeStringsHelper is a skill published in the GitHub repository AFK-surf/OpenBridge (428 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,119 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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