PlainTab: Skill for Codex

.agents/skills/update-i18n/SKILL.md

update-i18n is a skill for Codex from kaininx/PlainTab. It costs 70 tokens per session (725 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A maintenance guide for translating PlainTab’s on-screen text into multiple languages. It covers language files and the code that displays translated labels, help text, and settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or changing labels, help messages, settings text, or translation keys in PlainTab. It also helps check that translation files follow the project’s required format.
Why use it?
It helps keep every supported language complete and prevents new interface text from being hard-coded in one language.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is kaininx/PlainTab's own configuration. It tells Codex how to work on PlainTab 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 PlainTab configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to kaininx/PlainTab. 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/kaininx/PlainTab/main/.agents/skills/update-i18n/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kaininx/PlainTab

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 725 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 $0.00070 $0.00725
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00290
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00072

Measured 2mo ago against content hash cdf404219e36, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

update-i18n 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 2mo 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.

.agents/skills/update-i18n/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Update PlainTab I18N

Use this skill for PlainTab runtime UI copy. Keep the runtime contract unchanged:

  • js/languages.js is the synchronous language bootstrap and must stay early in index.html.
  • js/i18n/*.js are language packs that assign flat objects to window.I18N["locale"].
  • Runtime code should call t(key) or use existing data-i18n; do not hard-code UI language branches.
  • Keep all language packs key-complete. zh-CN and en need carefully maintained copy, and every supported locale should receive localized UI text for newly added runtime keys. Do not use English as the default fallback for non-English packs; only leave a product name, protocol, shortcut, or technical token in English when that exact token is the UI concept.

Workflow

  1. Read .claude/rules/30-language.md and any touched runtime file.
  2. Add or update flat keys in every js/i18n/*.js file. New user-facing keys must be localized for all supported locales, not copied from en.
  3. Keep language packs multi-line, one key per line:
window.I18N["en"] = {
    "someKey": "Some text",
    "anotherKey": "Another text"
};
  1. In runtime code, reference keys through t("someKey"). Avoid detecting language manually for UI strings.
  2. For generated or mechanical updates, preserve UTF-8 text. Be careful with PowerShell pipelines that can turn non-ASCII text into ?; prefer apply_patch or an ASCII-safe temporary script that is deleted after use.
  3. If adding user-facing behavior, keep first-paint rules intact; do not move js/languages.js or js/preload.js.

Validation

Run these checks before finishing:

Get-ChildItem js\i18n\*.js | ForEach-Object { node --check $_.FullName }
node --check js\languages.js
node --check js\newtab.js
@'
const fs = require('fs');
global.window = {};
global.document = { write() {} };
global.navigator = { language: 'en' };
global.localStorage = { getItem() { return ''; } };
require('./js/languages.js');
for (const file of fs.readdirSync('js/i18n').filter(f => f.endsWith('.js'))) require('./js/i18n/' + file);
const report = window.validatePlainTabI18N({ silent: true });
if (!report.ok) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(report, null, 2));
  process.exit(1);
}
console.log('validatePlainTabI18N ok');
'@ | node -

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2mo ago First seen · 60 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A cdf404219e36

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update-i18n is a skill published in the GitHub repository kaininx/PlainTab (96 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 725 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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