transcreation

A writing skill that adapts marketing content for another language and market instead of translating word for word. It follows local brand rules, market requirements, and terms that must remain unchanged.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to localize marketing copy for specified locales, preserve product and trademark names, and save compliant localized versions.
Why use it?
Literal translations can lose the intended tone, make idioms confusing, or violate local and brand guidelines.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/localplugins/plugins/transcreation
Any agent
npx skills add localplugins/plugins --skill transcreation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/localplugins/plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,178 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00082 $0.01178
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00589
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00236
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00118

Measured yesterday against content hash d06bac3b611d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

transcreation 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 yesterday.

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.

content-multiplier/skills/transcreation/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Transcreation

Overview

Transcreation adapts content into another language so it feels native, preserving intent, brand voice, and emotional impact rather than translating literally. The wording is reworked; the effect is kept.

Literal translation breaks marketing: idioms fall flat, humor is lost, and register goes wrong. This skill loads the base brand profile and the target locale's overrides, reworks the copy for that market, protects do-not-translate glossary terms, and re-checks compliance and channel limits for the new language. It is instruction-driven and writes localized files, with no accounts, keys, or network access.

Prerequisites

  • Source content to localize and one or more target locales in xx-XX form (for example de-DE, ja-JP).
  • The base brand profile plus any content/brand/locales/<xx-XX>/ overrides. The skill uses Glob and Read to find and load them and Write to save each localized asset.
  • The style-guide.md glossary section (Product and Trademark Names) for do-not-translate terms, and the locale's compliance.md for market-specific rules.

Instructions

  1. Read the base brand files, then read any locales/<xx-XX>/ overrides. Locale rules win for that market.
  2. Adapt, do not translate: rework idioms, humor, and references into locale equivalents, keeping the effect rather than the words.
  3. Set the register: choose the correct formality and honorifics for the persona and locale (Sie or du, keigo, tu or usted).
  4. Convert locale specifics: units, currency, date and number formats, names, and examples.
  5. Protect the glossary: never translate product names, trademarks, or taglines unless the brand supplies a sanctioned translation.
  6. Check the channel limit: text expands or contracts across languages, so re-fit each asset with the channel-formats spec.
  7. Verify compliance against the locale's compliance.md: disclaimers and prohibited terms can differ by country.
  8. Handle scripts: apply right-to-left rules for Arabic and Hebrew and correct spacing for CJK.
  9. When asked, emit a back-translation plus a short note on adaptation choices so a non-native approver can sign off.

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. yesterday First seen · 91 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A d06bac3b611d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

transcreation is a skill published in the GitHub repository localplugins/plugins (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 1,178 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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