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.
npx skills add besoeasy/open-skills --skill free-translation-apigit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/besoeasy/open-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/besoeasy/open-skills/free-translation-api)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/besoeasy/open-skills/free-translation-api"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/besoeasy/open-skills/free-translation-api/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/besoeasy/open-skills/free-translation-api"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/besoeasy/open-skills/free-translation-api.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 11 findings, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 40 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 49 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 59 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 189 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 363 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 137 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 144 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 259 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 395 Docker image references without a specific tag (:latest is implicit) or digest (@sha256:...) can be silently replaced by a malicious image.Fix: Pin the image: image:tag or image@sha256:abc123
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 398 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
- medium Prompt Injection · line 431 Subtle instructions detected that may alter agent decision-making or introduce hidden biases.Fix: Review content for implicit steering or bias. Ensure instructions are explicit and align with the skill's stated purpose.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00047 | $0.03697 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00023 | $0.01849 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00739 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00370 |
Grade A, and why
free-translation-api scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 11d 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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
curl -s -X POST "https://libretranslate.com/translate" \ How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 491 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Free Translation API — LibreTranslate
Translate text between 100+ languages using free LibreTranslate instances. Open-source, privacy-respecting alternative to Google Translate API ($20/million characters).
Why This Replaces Paid Translation APIs
💰 Cost savings:
- ✅ 100% free — no API keys required for public instances
- ✅ No rate limits — generous limits on public instances
- ✅ Open source — self-hostable for unlimited usage
- ✅ Privacy-first — no data collection or tracking
Perfect for AI agents that need:
- Text translation without Google Translate API costs
- Privacy-respecting translation (no data retention)
- High volume translation without quotas
- Offline translation capability (self-hosted)
Quick comparison
| Service | Cost | Rate limit | Privacy | API key required |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Translate API | $20/1M chars | Unlimited with payment | ❌ Tracked | ✅ Yes |
| DeepL API | $5-25/1M chars | 500k chars/month free | ❌ Tracked | ✅ Yes |
| LibreTranslate | Free | Varies by instance | ✅ Private | ❌ No |
Skills
translate_text
Basic text translation using LibreTranslate.
# Translate text (English to Spanish)
curl -s -X POST "https://libretranslate.com/translate" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"q": "Hello, how are you?",
"source": "en",
"target": "es"
}' | jq -r '.translatedText'
# Auto-detect source language
curl -s -X POST "https://libretranslate.com/translate" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"q": "Bonjour le monde",
"source": "auto",
"target": "en"
}' | jq -r '.translatedText'
# Translate from file
TEXT=$(cat document.txt)
curl -s -X POST "https://libretranslate.com/translate" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d "{
\"q\": \"$TEXT\",
\"source\": \"en\",
\"target\": \"fr\"
}" | jq -r '.translatedText' > document_fr.txt
Node.js:
async function translateText(text, targetLang, sourceLang = 'auto', instance = 'https://libretranslate.com') {
const res = await fetch(`${instance}/translate`, {
method: 'POST',
headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
body: JSON.stringify({
q: text,
source: sourceLang,
target: targetLang
})
});
if (!res.ok) {
const error = await res.text();
throw new Error(`Translation failed: ${error}`);
}
const data = await res.json();
return data.translatedText;
}
// Usage
// translateText('Hello world', 'es', 'en')
// .then(translated => console.log(translated));
// Output: "Hola mundo"
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 491 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 5ce94ea6be71
free-translation-api is a skill published in the GitHub repository besoeasy/open-skills (132 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 3,697 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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