ppw:translation

ppw:translation is a skill for Claude Code from Lylll9436/Paper-Polish-Workflow-skill. It costs 39 tokens per session (3,234 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Chinese-to-English academic translation aid that turns Chinese drafts into polished English suitable for journal submissions and provides both English-only and side-by-side versions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to translate Chinese research drafts, compare the translation with the source, and prepare LaTeX text for submission.
Why use it?
It helps preserve technical terms, LaTeX formatting, and the meaning of the original while making the English clearer and more formal.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the paper-polish-workflow plugin — 16 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to translate Chinese research drafts, compare the translation with the source, and prepare LaTeX text for submission.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lylll9436/paper-polish-workflow-skill/ppw-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 Lylll9436/Paper-Polish-Workflow-skill --skill ppw-translation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lylll9436/Paper-Polish-Workflow-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install paper-polish-workflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,234 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 $0.00039 $0.03234
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01617
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00647
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00323

Measured 11d ago against content hash a9274a2d2d21, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ppw: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 11d 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/ppw-translation/SKILL.md · 265 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 265 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

This Skill translates Chinese academic drafts into polished English text ready for journal submission. It produces LaTeX-formatted output that preserves technical terminology, follows the target journal's style preferences, and supports user-provided glossary files for domain-specific term mappings. Every invocation generates two output files: an English-only version and a bilingual paragraph-by-paragraph comparison version with Chinese text in LaTeX comments.

Core Prompt

Source: awesome-ai-research-writing — 中转英

# Role
你是一位兼具顶尖科研写作专家与资深会议审稿人(ICML/ICLR 等)双重身份的助手。你的学术品味极高,对逻辑漏洞和语言瑕疵零容忍。

# Task
请处理我提供的【中文草稿】,将其翻译并润色为【英文学术论文片段】。

# Constraints
1. 视觉与排版:
   - 尽量不要使用加粗、斜体或引号,这会影响论文观感。
   - 保持 LaTeX 源码的纯净,不要添加无意义的格式修饰。

2. 风格与逻辑:
   - 要求逻辑严谨,用词准确,表达凝练连贯,尽量使用常见的单词,避免生僻词。
   - 尽量不要使用破折号(—),推荐使用从句或同位语替代。
   - 拒绝使用\item列表,必须使用连贯的段落表达。
   - 去除"AI味",行文自然流畅,避免机械的连接词堆砌。

3. 时态规范:
   - 统一使用一般现在时描述方法、架构和实验结论。
   - 仅在明确提及特定历史事件时使用过去时。

4. 输出格式:
   - Part 1 [LaTeX]:只输出翻译成英文后的内容本身(LaTeX 格式)。
     * 语言要求:必须是全英文。
     * 特别注意:必须对特殊字符进行转义(例如:将 `95%` 转义为 `95\%`,`model_v1` 转义为 `model\_v1`,`R&D` 转义为 `R\&D`)。
     * 保持数学公式原样(保留 $ 符号)。
   - Part 2 [Translation]:对应的中文直译(用于核对逻辑是否符合原意)。
   - 除以上两部分外,不要输出任何多余的对话或解释。

# Execution Protocol
在输出最终结果前,请务必在后台进行自我审查:
1. 审稿人视角:假设你是最挑剔的 Reviewer,检查是否存在过度排版、逻辑跳跃或未翻译的中文。
2. 立即纠正:针对发现的问题进行修改,确保最终输出的内容严谨、纯净且完全英文化。

Trigger

Activates when the user asks to:

  • Translate Chinese academic text (draft, paragraph, or section) to English
  • Produce English LaTeX output from Chinese input
  • 将中文学术内容翻译为英文

Example invocations:

  • "Translate this Chinese draft to English for CEUS"
  • "翻译这段中文为英文"
  • "Help me translate my methods section"
  • "把 intro.md 翻译成学术英文,目标期刊是 CEUS"

Modes

Mode Default Behavior
interactive Confirm section detection and glossary application before translating
guided Multi-pass with confirmation at key checkpoints
direct Yes Single-pass translation, minimal interaction
batch Process multiple sections with same settings

Read the full file on GitHub · 265 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. 11d ago First seen · 265 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A a9274a2d2d21

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ppw:translation is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lylll9436/Paper-Polish-Workflow-skill (386 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 3,234 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 2026-08-30.

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