VI-Translate: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/pdf-translate/SKILL.md

pdf-translate is a skill for Claude Code from breslee1707/VI-Translate. It costs 59 tokens per session (228 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A tool for translating or diagnosing text-based PDF files while keeping their layout and technical content intact. It covers formulas, tables, figures, styles, page rotation, and specialized characters.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to translate local technical PDFs, investigate layout regressions, or fix preservation problems in formulas, tables, figures, and text.
Why use it?
Ordinary text translation can damage the structure or technical notation of a PDF. This tool focuses on finding and preserving those details, including problems in an incomplete translated output.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is breslee1707/VI-Translate's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on VI-Translate itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything VI-Translate configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to breslee1707/VI-Translate. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/breslee1707/VI-Translate/main/.claude/skills/pdf-translate/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/breslee1707/VI-Translate

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 228 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin unknown 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 $0.00059 $0.00228
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00114
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00046
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00023

Measured 11d ago against content hash 876cd8534a90, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pdf-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 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.

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.

.claude/skills/pdf-translate/SKILL.md · 22 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 11d ago First seen · 22 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 876cd8534a90

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pdf-translate is a skill published in the GitHub repository breslee1707/VI-Translate (530 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 228 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 2026-08-30.

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