backend-internationalization

backend-internationalization is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from j4flmao/agent-skills. It costs 86 tokens per session (6,712 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for adding support for multiple languages and regional settings to a backend, including translated messages and locale-aware formatting.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps plan locale selection, translation files, fallback chains, message formatting, and translation workflows for API messages, emails, notifications, and errors.
Why use it?
It helps prevent inconsistent translations, broken plural forms, incorrect regional formats, and unclear language fallback behavior.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument; mentions Codex.

Good fit It helps plan locale selection, translation files, fallback chains, message formatting, and translation workflows for API messages, emails, notifications, and errors.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/j4flmao/agent-skills/internationalization
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 j4flmao/agent-skills --skill internationalization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/j4flmao/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for backend-internationalization

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/j4flmao/agent-skills/internationalization/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/j4flmao/agent-skills/internationalization)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/j4flmao/agent-skills/internationalization"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/j4flmao/agent-skills/internationalization/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for backend-internationalization

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/j4flmao/agent-skills/internationalization"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/j4flmao/agent-skills/internationalization.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,712 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 4 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 MCP Rug Pull · line 149
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 297
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 303
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 305
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
How audits are shown
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 $0.00086 $0.06712
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.03356
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.01342
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00671

Measured 5d ago against content hash c20d654f21dd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backend-internationalization 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 5d 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.

skills/backend/universal/internationalization/SKILL.md · 617 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 617 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backend Internationalization

Purpose

Design i18n architecture with locale selection, translation workflow, and message formatting.

Agent Protocol

Trigger

Exact user phrases: "i18n", "internationalization", "localization", "l10n", "translation", "multi-language", "locale", "language support", "translation file", "gettext", "message format", "ICU message", "pluralization", "RTL support".

Input Context

Before activating, verify:

  • Initial languages to support and priority order
  • Translation workflow (in-house translators, vendor, Crowdin/Lokalise)
  • Content types needing translation (API messages, emails, push notifications, error messages)
  • Who provides translations (developers, product team, translation service)

Output Artifact

Internationalization architecture design as formatted text.

Response Format

# Locale configuration with fallback chains
# Translation file structure
// Message formatting code
// Locale detection and negotiation

No preamble. No postamble. No explanations. No filler/hedging/transitions. Compress output — why use many token when few do trick.

Completion Criteria

  • Locale selection with BCP 47 tags and fallback chains
  • Message storage with ICU MessageFormat and key naming convention
  • Translation workflow defined (extract → translate → import → validate)
  • API message delivery with Accept-Language parsing and Content-Language header
  • Server-side locale-aware formatting (date, number, currency, timezone)
  • RTL support with dir attribute and bidirectional text handling

Max Response Length

200 lines of configuration and code.

Decision Tree

Which Library?

What tech stack and i18n needs?
  ├── Node.js, need ICU support, flexible
  │   └── i18next (most popular, rich ecosystem)
  ├── React, need ICU, date/number formatting
  │   └── FormatJS / react-intl (ICU native, Intl API integration)
  ├── Python / Django
  │   └── Babel + gettext (PO files, Django integration)
  ├── Python, need ICU
  │   └── Babel with babel-icu extension
  ├── Go
  │   └── go-i18n (ICU-like, YAML/TOML/JSON)
  └── Java / Spring
      └── ResourceBundle + ICU4J (standard Java i18n)

Read the full file on GitHub · 617 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 5d ago First seen · 617 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A c20d654f21dd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

backend-internationalization is a skill published in the GitHub repository j4flmao/agent-skills (22 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 6,712 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

i18n-date-patterns

Implements internationalization (i18n) in React applications. Covers user-facing strings, date/time handling, locale-aware formatting, ICU MessageFormat, and RTL support. Use when building multilingual UIs or formatting dates/currency.

yonatangross/orchestkit · 53 tokens

heygen

Prepare guarded HeyGen Direct API requests for avatar video generation, video translation, asset discovery, and status polling.

HybridAIOne/hybridclaw · 25 tokens

webiny-v5-to-v6-migration

Migration patterns for converting v5 Webiny code to v6 architecture. Use this skill when migrating existing v5 plugins to v6 features, converting context plugins to DI services, adapting v5 event subscriptions to v6 EventHandlers, or understanding how v5 patterns translate to v6. Targeted at AI agents performing…

webiny/webiny-js · 75 tokens

tongwen

Use when translating engineering CAD drawings between languages — DWG text extraction, translation workspace with terminology management, quality-checked write-back. TongWen (同文): local-first CAD/BIM lossless translation suite for AutoCAD 2019-2026.

znlgis/opengis-skills · 55 tokens

contentful-cms

Creates Contentful content types, queries entries via GraphQL/REST, runs CLI migrations, and manages assets and locales. Use when building or modifying Contentful content models, writing queries, or migrating content.

monkilabs/opencastle · 46 tokens

raqam

Teaches the raqam React number-input library — headless NumberField compound components, useNumberFieldState/useNumberField hooks, Intl presets, locale plugins (fa/ar/bn/hi/th), raqam/server formatting, validation, ScrubArea, accessibility, and form integration. Use when building or debugging currency/percent/unit…

47vigen/raqam · 102 tokens