internationalization

internationalization is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rampstackco/claude-skills. It costs 123 tokens per session (2,672 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for making a website work across languages and regions. It covers language-specific content, regional formats, search-engine signals, and right-to-left writing systems such as Arabic and Hebrew.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding languages, choosing language-based URLs, setting up hreflang tags, planning translations, handling currencies and dates, supporting right-to-left languages, or reviewing an international launch.
Why use it?
It helps avoid broken layouts, confusing regional formatting, duplicate search results, and translation processes that are difficult to maintain.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the rampstack-skills plugin — 103 skills shipped together

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/rampstackco/claude-skills/internationalization
Any agent
npx skills add rampstackco/claude-skills --skill internationalization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rampstackco/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install rampstack-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 103 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for internationalization

README.md
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Per session 123 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,672 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 5.1 $0.00123 $0.02672
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.01336
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00534
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00267

Measured 6d ago against content hash 76b12791dff2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

internationalization 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 6d 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/internationalization/SKILL.md · 279 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 279 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Internationalization

Add languages and regions in a way that works for users, search engines, and the team maintaining the content. Stack-agnostic.


When to use

  • Adding the first non-English (or non-default) language
  • Adding additional locales to an existing internationalized site
  • Choosing URL structure for languages
  • Implementing hreflang tags
  • Designing translation workflow
  • Handling currency, date, time, and number formats
  • Designing or fixing layout for RTL languages
  • Auditing an internationalization rollout that's underperforming

When NOT to use

  • Single-language site (use other skills)
  • Domain strategy that's not language-driven (use domain-strategy)
  • Content strategy independent of locale (use content-strategy)
  • Marketing copy production (use content-and-copy)

Required inputs

  • The locales in scope (language + region, e.g., en-US, de-DE, fr-CA)
  • Business reason per locale (priority, audience size)
  • Existing site architecture
  • Translation resources (in-house, agency, AI-assisted, community)
  • Content volume and update frequency

The framework: 5 layers

Internationalization touches everything. Five layers, each with their own decisions.

Layer 1: URL structure

How locales are reflected in URLs.

Pattern Example When
ccTLD example.de, example.fr Strong country focus, distinct legal entities, willing to maintain separate domains
Subdomain de.example.com, fr.example.com Logical separation, willing to host separately, common for large sites
Subfolder example.com/de/, example.com/fr/ SEO equity unified, simplest to manage, default for most
URL parameter example.com?lang=de Avoid; weak SEO signal

For most sites: subfolder is the default. Subdomain or ccTLD only when there's a specific reason (legal, infrastructure, or brand).

Within the chosen pattern, decide:

  • Language only (/de/) or language plus region (/de-de/, /de-at/, /de-ch/)?
  • Default locale: at the apex (example.com) or in a folder (example.com/en/)?

Read the full file on GitHub · 279 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. 6d ago First seen · 279 lines · 123 tokens per session scan A 76b12791dff2

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internationalization is a skill published in the GitHub repository rampstackco/claude-skills (817 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 123 tokens to every session and 2,672 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 2026-08-30.

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