claude-arabic

claude-arabic is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JamalMohafil/claude-skills. It costs 140 tokens per session (1,080 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An installer for running Claude Code with correctly shaped Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, or Urdu text inside the VS Code terminal. Right-to-left text is text that reads from the right side toward the left.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for installing the required VS Code extension and launcher so Claude Code can be started with the `arabic claude` command on macOS or Windows.
Why use it?
It addresses terminal display problems such as disconnected Arabic letters and reversed word order that ordinary VS Code terminal settings do not fix.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit It is for installing the required VS Code extension and launcher so Claude Code can be started with the arabic claude command on macOS or Windows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jamalmohafil/claude-skills/claude-arabic
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 JamalMohafil/claude-skills --skill claude-arabic
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JamalMohafil/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 140 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,080 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. ✓ AI security review Sonnet 5 · 7 Sept 2026 📄 Read the review
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 $0.00140 $0.01080
Opus 5 $0.00070 $0.00540
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00216
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00108

Measured 11d ago against content hash 32fb82fc74c9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-arabic 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-arabic/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Arabic Terminal

VS Code's terminal (xterm.js) cannot render right-to-left scripts: Arabic comes out with disconnected letters and reversed word order, and nothing in settings fixes it. This skill installs a small VS Code extension that runs Claude Code in a pseudo-terminal, keeps the screen in a headless terminal emulator, and renders it as HTML inside VS Code — so the browser engine does the Arabic shaping and bidi, exactly like claude.ai.

Repository: https://github.com/JamalMohafil/claude-arabic-terminal

Your job

Run the installer for the user's OS, verify it worked, and finish by telling them the single command they need from now on: arabic claude.

Steps

1. Check prerequisites (stop and tell the user if one is missing)

  • git, node (18+), npmgit --version, node -v, npm -v
  • Claude Code CLI — claude --version
  • VS Code with the code CLI — code --version (if code is missing on macOS: VS Code → Cmd+Shift+P → "Shell Command: Install 'code' command in PATH")

2. Run the installer

macOS / Linux:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JamalMohafil/claude-arabic-terminal/main/install.sh | bash

Windows (PowerShell):

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JamalMohafil/claude-arabic-terminal/main/install.ps1 | iex

The installer clones the repo to ~/.claude-arabic-terminal, runs npm install, links the extension into ~/.vscode/extensions/, and puts the arabic launcher in ~/.local/bin (added to PATH if needed). Re-running it updates an existing install.

If curl/irm is blocked, clone the repo manually and run ./install.sh or .\install.ps1 from inside it.

3. Verify

  • ls ~/.vscode/extensions | grep claude-arabic (Windows: dir $env:USERPROFILE\.vscode\extensions) shows jamal.claude-arabic-terminal-<version>
  • command -v arabic (Windows: Get-Command arabic) resolves — if not, the user must open a new terminal so PATH refreshes
  • ls ~/.claude-arabic-terminal/node_modules/node-pty/prebuilds lists darwin-* / win32-*

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 lines

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 · 88 lines · 140 tokens per session scan E 32fb82fc74c9

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claude-arabic is a skill published in the GitHub repository JamalMohafil/claude-skills (25 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 140 tokens to every session and 1,080 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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