selecting-app-locales

selecting-app-locales is a skill for Claude Code from ofcskn/mobile-automation-plugin. It costs 116 tokens per session (511 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided process for confirming the languages and regional versions an app supports across Apple and Google stores.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting an app, adding languages, preparing store submissions, or handling right-to-left languages such as Arabic or Hebrew.
Why use it?
Metadata, translated interface text, and localized screenshots all depend on the same confirmed locale list, avoiding rework.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the automobileapp plugin — 11 skills, 17 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it when starting an app, adding languages, preparing store submissions, or handling right-to-left languages such as Arabic or Hebrew.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ofcskn/mobile-automation-plugin/selecting-app-locales
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 ofcskn/mobile-automation-plugin --skill selecting-app-locales
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ofcskn/mobile-automation-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install automobileapp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 17 commands.

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README.md
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Per session 116 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 511 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 $0.00116 $0.00511
Opus 5 $0.00058 $0.00255
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00102
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00051

Measured 8d ago against content hash d8729baef09c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

selecting-app-locales 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/resolve-locales.js), 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.

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/selecting-app-locales/SKILL.md · 50 lines

What it actually says

Selecting App Locales

Why this must run first

Every downstream task — metadata validation, i18n JSON files, screenshot locales, App Store Connect locale folders, Google Play metadata folders — depends on a confirmed locale list. Starting without one causes rework.

The agent MUST ask the user before assuming any locale set. Even if the user says "just do English", that is a valid answer — write it to config.

Steps

  1. Read .msd/config/{app-id}.config.json and check if locales[] is already confirmed.

    • If locales[] exists and is non-empty: show the list and ask "Should I use these locales, or do you want to change them?"
    • If locales[] is missing or empty: proceed to step 2.
  2. Ask the user which languages to support. Common starting points:

    • English only: en
    • English + Turkish: en,tr
    • Major markets: en,tr,de,fr,es,pt-BR,ja,ko,zh-Hans
  3. Run: node skills/selecting-app-locales/scripts/resolve-locales.js {appId} "{locale-list}"

  4. Show the resolved locale table and confirm with user before proceeding.

  5. Only proceed to downstream skills after explicit user confirmation.

RTL locales

For Arabic (ar), Hebrew (he), Farsi (fa), Urdu (ur): add ⚠️ flag and note that React Native/Expo requires I18nManager.forceRTL(true) at app startup.

References

  • skills/selecting-app-locales/references/android-locales.md — BCP47 locale list
  • skills/selecting-app-locales/references/apple-storefronts.md — storefront table
Files

What ships with it

3 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. 8d ago First seen · 50 lines · 116 tokens per session scan A d8729baef09c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

selecting-app-locales is a skill published in the GitHub repository ofcskn/mobile-automation-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 116 tokens to every session and 511 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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