pdf-translate

pdf-translate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from L27z18328742/pdf-translate. It costs 161 tokens per session (1,751 once invoked), scanned B, original, no licence file.

A document translation tool for English PDF files, especially academic papers, into Chinese. It creates a Chinese-only PDF and a side-by-side bilingual PDF while preserving formulas, figures, and layout.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to translate academic papers and produce monolingual or bilingual Chinese PDFs.
Why use it?
It helps translate technical PDFs while keeping their original structure and visual content usable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to translate academic papers and produce monolingual or bilingual Chinese PDFs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/l27z18328742/pdf-translate/pdf-translate
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 L27z18328742/pdf-translate --skill pdf-translate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/L27z18328742/pdf-translate

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Per session 161 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,751 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00161 $0.01751
Opus 5 $0.00081 $0.00875
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00350
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00175

Measured 12d ago against content hash 79644ad2508f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

pdf-translate scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 12d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

2. **OpenAI-compatible (fallback when API key exists)** — used when `claude` CLI is not found but `OPENAI_API_KEY` is set. Reuses the model configured for Codex: reads `base_url` + `model` from `~/.codex/config.toml` and
SKILL.md · 73 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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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. 12d ago First seen · 73 lines · 161 tokens per session scan B 79644ad2508f

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pdf-translate is a skill published in the GitHub repository L27z18328742/pdf-translate (62 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 161 tokens to every session and 1,751 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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