A tool for translating JSON language files used by software to display text in different languages. It handles internationalisation—the process of preparing an application for multiple languages and regional settings.

Use it to translate locale or i18n files, add languages, update changed text, keep technical terms consistent, and protect embedded formatting.

It helps add or update translations while preserving variables, placeholders, tags, URLs, and formatting that the application needs.

jta — Skill for Claude Code by ckanner

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/ckanner/agent-skills

agentmods

npx agentmods add skills/ckanner/agent-skills/jta

Made for: Claude Code.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin jta — /plugin install jta after adding the marketplace above.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ckanner/agent-skills/jta.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ckanner/agent-skills/jta)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ckanner/agent-skills/jta"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ckanner/agent-skills/jta.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,679 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan B 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin 95% copy Near-identical to another mod 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00046	$0.02679
Opus 5	$0.00023	$0.01340
Sonnet 5	$0.00009	$0.00536
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00268

Measured 7d ago against content hash 966c16971c04, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

jta scanned grade B with 2 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/install.sh), 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo mv jta /usr/local/bin/

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -L https://github.com/hikanner/jta/releases/latest/download/jta-darwin-arm64 -o jta

Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to jta — 1 line differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

jta/SKILL.md · 358 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 358 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Jta Translation

AI-powered JSON internationalization file translator with Agentic reflection mechanism.

When to Use This Skill

User asks to translate JSON i18n/locale files
User mentions "internationalization", "i18n", "l10n", or "locale"
User wants to add new languages to their project
User needs to update existing translations
User mentions specific languages like "translate to Chinese/Japanese/Korean"

Core Capabilities

Agentic Translation: AI translates, evaluates, and improves its own work (3x API calls per batch)
Smart Terminology: Automatically detects and maintains consistent terms (brand names, technical terms)
Format Protection: Preserves {variables}, {{placeholders}}, HTML tags, URLs, Markdown
Incremental Mode: Only translates new/changed content (saves 80-90% API cost on updates)
27 Languages: Including RTL languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu)

Instructions

Step 1: Check if jta is installed

# Check if jta exists
if ! command -v jta &> /dev/null; then
  echo "jta not found, will install"
fi

Step 2: Install jta if needed

# Detect OS and install jta
OS="$(uname -s)"
ARCH="$(uname -m)"

if [[ "$OS" == "Darwin"* ]]; then
  # macOS - try Homebrew first
  if command -v brew &> /dev/null; then
    brew tap hikanner/jta
    brew install jta
  else
    # Download binary
    if [[ "$ARCH" == "arm64" ]]; then
      curl -L https://github.com/hikanner/jta/releases/latest/download/jta-darwin-arm64 -o jta
    else
      curl -L https://github.com/hikanner/jta/releases/latest/download/jta-darwin-amd64 -o jta
    fi
    chmod +x jta
    sudo mv jta /usr/local/bin/
  fi
elif [[ "$OS" == "Linux"* ]]; then
  # Linux
  curl -L https://github.com/hikanner/jta/releases/latest/download/jta-linux-amd64 -o jta
  chmod +x jta
  sudo mv jta /usr/local/bin/
fi

# Verify installation
jta --version

Step 3: Check for API key and set provider

Jta requires an AI provider API key. Check in this order and set the provider flag:

Read the full file on GitHub · 358 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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.

7d ago First seen · 358 lines · 46 tokens per session scan B 966c16971c04

Subscribe to this mod's changes

jta is a skill published in the GitHub repository ckanner/agent-skills (23 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 2,679 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). It is 95% identical to jta, differing in 1 line, and is treated as a copy.

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