magical-translation

magical-translation is a skill for Codex from hon454/grimoire. It costs 29 tokens per session (382 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A translation helper that rewrites user-facing text in the language configured for the current Grimoire session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to translate text, explain localized wording, or prepare messages for users in the configured language.
Why use it?
It prevents the target language from being guessed incorrectly and keeps code, file paths, and other technical identifiers unchanged.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to translate text, explain localized wording, or prepare messages for users in the configured language.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hon454/grimoire/magical-translation
Install

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.

Any agent
npx skills add hon454/grimoire --skill magical-translation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hon454/grimoire

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 382 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 $0.00029 $0.00382
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00191
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00038

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5057a4a8439f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

magical-translation 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/resolve_translation_locale.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.

plugins/grimoire/skills/magical-translation/SKILL.md · 44 lines

What it actually says

Magical Translation

Translate or interpret text using the Grimoire session translation locale. Use this when a user asks for translation, localized explanation, or when another skill needs user-facing text in the configured Grimoire locale.

Locale

Before translating, resolve the target locale with the bundled script:

python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/resolve_translation_locale.py --format json

Use the returned locale as the translation target. Do not infer the target language from conversation prose, source text, repository language, or host locale when the script cannot read the session cache. If the script fails, tell the user the Grimoire session config cache is unavailable or invalid and ask for an explicit target language before translating.

Translation Rules

  • Preserve code, commands, file paths, branch names, issue or PR numbers, commit SHAs, API names, config keys, error strings, and quoted identifiers unless the user explicitly asks to translate them.
  • Translate meaning, not just words. Explain implied intent, risk, and nuance when the task asks for interpretation.
  • Keep source excerpts short. Summarize long source text instead of copying it.
  • Redact secrets, credentials, tokens, private emails, customer data, signed URL query strings, and other sensitive values before echoing source details.
  • Match the user's requested output shape when provided. Otherwise prefer concise prose or a compact table for multi-item interpretation.

Use From Other Skills

When another skill delegates translation here, first run the locale script, then apply these translation rules inside that skill's workflow. Return control to the calling skill after translation or interpretation is complete.

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 9d ago First seen · 44 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 5057a4a8439f

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magical-translation is a skill published in the GitHub repository hon454/grimoire (2 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 382 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.