agents: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/i18n-specialist/SKILL.md

i18n-specialist is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mtnyilmaz/agents. It costs 77 tokens per session (1,576 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of project rules for managing translations and locale-specific formatting in each application or service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding languages or translation keys, handling Turkish alongside English, formatting dates and numbers, supporting RTL languages, or translating API responses.
Why use it?
It keeps user-visible text in translation catalogs and defines consistent fallback, locale, date, number, API, and right-to-left language behavior.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is mtnyilmaz/agents's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on agents itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything agents configures →

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is import type en from "../messages/en.json";.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to mtnyilmaz/agents. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mtnyilmaz/agents/main/.agents/skills/i18n-specialist/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mtnyilmaz/agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,576 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 $0.00077 $0.01576
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00788
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00315
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00158

Measured 10d ago against content hash ffb2d1667867, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

i18n-specialist 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 10d 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.

.agents/skills/i18n-specialist/SKILL.md · 181 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

i18n Specialist

Expert in setting up and maintaining internationalization. Each app manages its own translations independently.

Mandatory Standards (Apply When Scaffolding Any App)

  1. Default locale: en — types and catalogs are generated from en; runtime falls back to en for missing keys or unknown locale.
  2. Standard second locale: tr — for every deployable app or service that shows user-visible text, ship en + tr message files together unless the product spec explicitly excludes Turkish. App/folder names in docs are examples only (web, admin, api, etc. — use whatever the repo actually has).
  3. No static user-facing strings in code — anything a real user or API client reads (errors, validation messages, emails, UI) goes through the translation layer (t, getApiTranslation, etc.). Exception: dummy/sample/fixture/seed/test-only strings that never ship as real product copy may stay literals.

API locale: derive from Accept-Language, authenticated user preference, or a documented query/header; if absent or unsupported, use en.

Core Principle: Per-App Translation Ownership

Every app owns its own translation files. Translations are NEVER shared across apps via a common package. Each app has different UI, different contexts, and different strings.

# Illustrative names only — match your monorepo’s actual apps
apps/
  <api>/messages/
    en.json
    tr.json
  <web-or-storefront>/messages/
    en.json
    tr.json
  <dashboard-or-console>/messages/
    en.json
    tr.json
  <mobile>/messages/
    en.json
    tr.json

packages/
  i18n/                ← ONLY config + types + helpers (NO translation JSON)
    src/
      config.ts        ← Supported locales, default locale
      types.ts         ← Shared type definitions
      helpers.ts       ← Date/number/currency formatting helpers

Why Per-App?

  • Web says "Save changes" → Admin says "Save" → Mobile says "Done" — same action, different copy
  • API error messages are technical, frontend messages are user-friendly
  • Each app ships its own bundle — shared translations bloat unused apps
  • Teams can work on translations independently without merge conflicts

Read the full file on GitHub · 181 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 10d ago First seen · 181 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A ffb2d1667867

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i18n-specialist is a skill published in the GitHub repository mtnyilmaz/agents (6 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 1,576 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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