translator

translator is a skill for Claude Code from nguyenvanphituoc/shapeup-sdlc-plugin. It costs 168 tokens per session (3,100 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A language-normalization step for software planning workflows that converts non-English requirements, transcripts, or specifications into faithful English copies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Translating intake documents, preserving their structure and details, creating a consistent glossary, and checking that the result is English.
Why use it?
It prevents later planning and implementation steps from failing or changing requirements because they assume English input.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the shapeup-sdlc-plugin plugin — 17 skills, 11 commands, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Translating intake documents, preserving their structure and details, creating a consistent glossary, and checking that the result is English.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nguyenvanphituoc/shapeup-sdlc-plugin/translator
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 nguyenvanphituoc/shapeup-sdlc-plugin --skill translator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nguyenvanphituoc/shapeup-sdlc-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install shapeup-sdlc-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 11 commands, 4 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 168 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,100 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 $0.00168 $0.03100
Opus 5 $0.00084 $0.01550
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00620
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00310

Measured 7d ago against content hash 04423ef02839, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

translator 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 7d 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/translator/SKILL.md · 259 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 259 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Translator (harness language gate)

The one job upstream of the whole harness: make the input English, faithfully, once. The harness is English-only end to end — the planner, generator, and judge all assume English and HARD-FAIL on anything else. This skill is the single component that guarantees that assumption holds. It is not a translator that rewrites; it normalizes language while preserving every requirement, number, boundary, and structural element 1:1.

PO writes intake (any language)  →  TRANSLATOR  →  <name>.en.md (English)  →  ba-pitch-analyzer → …
                                    (this skill)     + glossary.md + report

Scope is deliberately narrow (simplicity first):

  • ✅ Translate input docs (pitch / PRD / requirement / transcript) into English copies.
  • ✅ Emit a persisted glossary so domain terms map consistently across docs and runs.
  • Verify the output is English and structurally identical to the source.
  • 🚫 Does NOT plan, build, or judge — that is the harness's job.
  • 🚫 Does NOT translate harness output back to the PO's language (input-normalization only).
  • 🚫 Does NOT summarize, add, drop, or "improve" content — faithful 1:1 only.

What is preserved verbatim vs translated, glossary protocol, verification scanreferences/preservation-rules.md — read it before translating any file.


Workflow Overview

INPUT: doc(s) in any language
          │
⏸ GATE T0 │  Detect & Scope ──────► per-file source-language detection; list files to
          │                        translate; already-English files → skipped (idempotent)
          │
▶ Phase 1 │  Glossary ────────────► extract domain terms + proper nouns + do-not-translate
          │                        tokens; map source→English; reuse existing glossary.md
⏸ GATE T1 │  Glossary Review ──────► PO confirms term mappings; ambiguous terms resolved here
          │                        (never guessed). lite/auto: auto-proceed on unambiguous.
          │
▶ Phase 2 │  Translate ───────────► WRITE <name>.en.md (original untouched): prose → English,
          │                        glossary applied; frontmatter keys, wikilinks, code, URLs,
          │                        numbers preserved
          │
▶ Phase 3 │  Verify ──────────────► residual-non-English scan + structural diff (heading /
          │                        link / code-block / list-item counts must match source)
⏸ GATE T2 │  Output Sign-off ──────► confirm clean scan + matching structure, then emit
          │                        glossary.md + translation-report.md (the .en.md is already
          │                        written in Phase 2)
✅ Done   └─► English intake ready for the harness

Read the full file on GitHub · 259 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. 7d ago First seen · 259 lines · 168 tokens per session scan A 04423ef02839

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translator is a skill published in the GitHub repository nguyenvanphituoc/shapeup-sdlc-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 168 tokens to every session and 3,100 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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