language

A language workflow for checking fluency and translating text between English, Spanish, and Catalan, using Barcelona-appropriate wording. Prompts beginning with “Question” are answered directly instead of being translated.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for fluency checks, corrections, direct answers to marked questions, and translation among English, Spanish, and Catalan.
Why use it?
It helps separate questions from text that needs language review and makes corrections and translations consistent across the three supported languages.

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/markmhendrickson/ateles/language
Any agent
npx skills add markmhendrickson/ateles --skill language
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/markmhendrickson/ateles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 832 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 $0.00025 $0.00832
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00416
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00166
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00083

Measured 2d ago against content hash d087d82ac884, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

language 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 2d 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.

.claude/skills/language/SKILL.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

language

Purpose

Define how /language requests process user text for fluency verification and translation (English, Spanish, Catalan).

Scope

Applies when the user invokes /language in this repository. Covers trigger logic, fluency checks, and translation steps.

Trigger logic

If the prompt starts with "Question: " (or equivalent in other languages), treat it as a question to answer directly. Do not treat as raw text for fluency/translation.

Equivalent question prefixes:

  • English: "Question: ", "Query: "
  • Spanish: "Pregunta: ", "Consulta: "
  • Catalan: "Pregunta: ", "Consulta: "

Otherwise, treat the remaining text as raw text for fluency verification and translation.

Processing steps (for raw text)

1) Fluency verification

  • Determine source language (English, Spanish, or Catalan)
  • Verify fluency and naturalness in that language
  • If corrections are needed, provide corrected text plus brief explanation for each change
  • If already fluent, confirm and optionally suggest refinements

2) Translate to other languages

  • Translate corrected text into the other two supported languages
  • Supported languages: English, Spanish, Catalan
  • Adapt wording for Barcelona, Spain (register, vocabulary, regional conventions)

3) Output format

For each translation include:

a. Translation text
The translated phrase/sentence.

b. Phonetics

  • Provide IPA/simple phonetic transcription below each non-English translation
  • For Catalan: include phonetics
  • For Spanish: omit phonetics

c. Phonetics symbol guide
Include a phonetics reference link such as: [IPA chart](https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/content/ipa-chart)

d. Google Translate link
Add GT link per translation, for example: [GT](https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=es&text=ENCODED_TEXT)

e. Regional relevance (mandatory)
Include a short note with:

  • Primary region (for example Barcelona, Spain; Peninsular Spanish; Central Catalan)
  • Register/context (formal, informal, neutral, literary, colloquial)
  • Where phrase is more/less common (for example common in Spain, more typical in Latin America)

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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. 2d ago First seen · 110 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A d087d82ac884

Subscribe to this mod's changes

language is a skill published in the GitHub repository markmhendrickson/ateles (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 832 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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