legal-translation

legal-translation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LegalQuants/lq-skills. It costs 165 tokens per session (4,192 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A legal-document translation workflow that aims to preserve legal meaning and effect across languages, rather than translating words mechanically.

In plain words
What is it for?
Preparing draft translations of contracts, court documents, notices, affidavits, leases, and other legal texts in any language pair.
Why use it?
It gives lawyers and translators a working draft while making clear that a bilingual lawyer or qualified legal translator must check and finalize it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Preparing draft translations of contracts, court documents, notices, affidavits, leases, and other legal texts in any language pair.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/legalquants/lq-skills/legal-translation
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 LegalQuants/lq-skills --skill legal-translation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LegalQuants/lq-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 165 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,192 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 $0.00165 $0.04192
Opus 5 $0.00082 $0.02096
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00838
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00419

Measured 12d ago against content hash f2b7deaa1c5c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

legal-translation 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 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.

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/legal-translation/SKILL.md · 409 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 409 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Legal translation that thinks about legal effect, not literal words.

This skill is the international extension of Modern Jurist — a legal translation app originally built for the Indian legal ecosystem (English ↔ Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada), which reached an advanced stage of development and was recognised for its approach of translating legal intent and effect, not just words. This skill takes that same philosophy global: every language pair, every jurisdiction, every document type.

The goal is not to produce a finished translation. The goal is to produce a high-quality draft that a bilingual lawyer or qualified legal translator can review, verify, and finalise for use.


Audience

This skill is designed for use by:

  • Bilingual lawyers reviewing AI-assisted drafts before client or court use
  • Qualified legal translators using AI to accelerate first-draft production
  • In-house counsel working across jurisdictions who need a working draft for review
  • Legal paralegals preparing documents for supervising lawyer sign-off

Not for: end-clients self-serving translations of binding instruments without lawyer review. Every output from this skill is a draft, not a final-form instrument.


Not in Scope

Stop and redirect if the request falls into any of these categories:

  • Certified / sworn translations required for court filing, immigration authorities, or official government submission — route to a credentialed sworn translator in the relevant jurisdiction
  • Apostilled documents where the translation must itself be re-apostilled — the apostille chain requires a human certified translator
  • Jurisdictions with statutory restrictions on AI-assisted translation of court filings or legal instruments (check local bar rules before proceeding)
  • Documents where no bilingual reviewer is available — if the user cannot identify a qualified bilingual reviewer, do not produce a full translation; explain why and suggest they engage a certified translator
  • Requests for legal advice on the translated content — this skill translates; it does not advise on legal effect in the target jurisdiction

Read the full file on GitHub · 409 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 12d ago First seen · 409 lines · 165 tokens per session scan A f2b7deaa1c5c

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legal-translation is a skill published in the GitHub repository LegalQuants/lq-skills (54 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 165 tokens to every session and 4,192 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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