i18n-check

i18n-check is a skill for Claude Code from mgiovani/cc-arsenal. It costs 225 tokens per session (1,959 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A checker for translation files and text in software applications. It looks for missing translations, untranslated copied text, obsolete keys, and new interface text that bypasses the translation system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect supported internationalisation setups, find missing or orphaned translation keys, detect unchanged translations, and identify hardcoded interface copy.
Why use it?
It helps find language problems before users see missing, outdated, or accidentally untranslated interface text.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the cc-arsenal-dev plugin — 19 skills shipped together , and of cc-arsenal

Good fit Use it to inspect supported internationalisation setups, find missing or orphaned translation keys, detect unchanged translations, and identify hardcoded interface copy.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mgiovani/cc-arsenal/i18n-check
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 mgiovani/cc-arsenal --skill i18n-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mgiovani/cc-arsenal

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cc-arsenal-dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills.

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Per session 225 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,959 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00225 $0.01959
Opus 5.5 $0.00090 $0.00784
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00045 $0.00392
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00196

Measured 22d ago against content hash 07b6f627f635, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

i18n-check scanned grade C with 2 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 22d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/i18n_diff.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

`curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh`). JSON-only projects can run it with

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

`curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh`). JSON-only projects can run it with
skills/i18n-check/SKILL.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

i18n Check

Finds the three ways translations silently rot: a key added to the default locale but never copied to the others (missing), a key copied but never translated (still reads identical to the source), and a key left behind in one locale after being renamed or removed from the default (orphan). Also catches new UI copy that was hardcoded instead of routed through the i18n layer in the first place: the most common way a translation key never gets created.

Step 1: Detect the framework

Look for these signals, in order, and stop at the first match:

Signal Framework Locale file layout
package.json has next-intl; i18n.ts/i18n/request.ts next-intl messages/<locale>.json, nested
package.json has i18next/react-i18next i18next public/locales/<lang>/<ns>.json or src/locales/<lang>.json, nested
package.json has react-intl react-intl lang/<locale>.json, flat, or inline defineMessages (no files)
package.json has vue-i18n vue-i18n src/locales/<lang>.json/.yaml, or <i18n> SFC blocks
manage.py + locale/<lang>/LC_MESSAGES/*.po Django gettext .po catalogs, source strings live in code
Gemfile + config/locales/*.yml Rails I18n YAML keyed by locale at the top level

If two signals match (e.g. a monorepo with a Rails API and a Vue frontend), run this skill once per app, not once for the whole repo: their locale files don't overlap.

Read references/frameworks.md for the exact default-locale detection and the flatten/diff one-liner for whichever framework you found. Every framework's diff reduces to the same three sets (missing / untranslated / orphan) even though the file format differs.

Step 2: Diff every locale against the default

Run the bundled script rather than comparing by eye:

uv run <skill-dir>/scripts/i18n_diff.py messages/en.json messages/pt-BR.json messages/de.json

uv runs it with PyYAML resolved from the script header (install uv with curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh). JSON-only projects can run it with plain python3 instead. It takes the default locale file first, then any number of other locale files (JSON nested or flat, YAML), and prints per locale:

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 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. 22d ago Changed · +18 lines scan A → C 07b6f627f635
  2. 1mo ago Changed b068616e3643
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines 6afdb3258bba
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 135 lines · 225 tokens per session scan A 489a4dd4c473

Subscribe to this mod's changes

i18n-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository mgiovani/cc-arsenal (8 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 225 tokens to every session and 1,959 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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