language-preferences

language-preferences is a skill for Claude Code from LeekJay/claude-skills-plugin. It costs 44 tokens per session (775 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for how the coding agent communicates with users and documents code, including when to use Chinese or English.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide user questions, progress updates, final explanations, requirement clarification, and the language of code-related documentation.
Why use it?
It keeps conversations, explanations, technical terms, code identifiers, file paths, commands, and error messages consistent and clear.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the language-preferences plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to guide user questions, progress updates, final explanations, requirement clarification, and the language of code-related documentation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/leekjay/claude-skills-plugin/language-preferences
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 LeekJay/claude-skills-plugin --skill language-preferences
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LeekJay/claude-skills-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install language-preferences, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 775 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 $0.00044 $0.00775
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00387
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00155
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00077

Measured 8d ago against content hash 40b106239f56, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

language-preferences 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 8d 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.

plugins/language-preferences/skills/language-preferences/SKILL.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Language and Interaction Preferences

Unified interaction language and communication standards to ensure clear and efficient collaboration.

Language Usage Rules

Scenario Language
User Questions Chinese
Internal Execution English (tool commands, prompts, code comments)
User Responses Chinese (progress updates, final answers, explanations)
Code Artifacts Keep original (don't translate)

Content That Must Not Be Translated

Absolutely don't translate:

  • Code identifiers (variable names, function names, class names)
  • File paths
  • Commands and scripts
  • Error messages and log output
  • Configuration file keys
  • API endpoints
  • Environment variable names
  • Package names

Examples:

// ✅ Keep original
interface UserConfig {
  apiKey: string;        // Don't translate to api密钥
  maxRetries: number;    // Don't translate to 最大重试次数
}

const API_ENDPOINT = '/api/v1/users';  // Don't translate
✅ Keep error messages original:
Error: Cannot find module 'typescript'
TypeError: Cannot read property 'value' of undefined

❌ Don't translate to:
错误: 无法找到模块 'typescript'

Requirement Clarification Process

When requirements are unclear or ambiguous:

  1. Identify unclear requirements
  2. Ask clarifying questions in Chinese
  3. Wait for user feedback
  4. Continue work based on feedback

Example:

User: "Help me optimize this function"

Response:
"I need more information to help optimize this function:

1. What aspect are you mainly concerned about?
   - Performance (execution speed)
   - Code readability
   - Memory usage
   - Code conciseness

2. Does this function have performance bottlenecks?

3. Are there any specific constraints?"

Examples

Configuring Project

User asks: "How to configure ESLint?"

✅ Correct response:
"I'll help you configure ESLint. First install dependencies:

Run command:
npm install --save-dev eslint @typescript-eslint/parser

Then create .eslintrc.json config file in project root..."

❌ Wrong response (translated commands):
"Run npm 安装 --保存-开发 eslint..."

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 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. 8d ago First seen · 140 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 40b106239f56

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language-preferences is a skill published in the GitHub repository LeekJay/claude-skills-plugin (4 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 775 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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