cringe-translator

cringe-translator is a skill for Claude Code from ReachRobin/skills. It costs 34 tokens per session (744 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A plain-English translator for sales-heavy LinkedIn messages, cold emails, and posts. It explains what each sales phrase is really communicating.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to translate a pasted message line by line, with an optional rating of how much sales jargon it contains.
Why use it?
It makes vague or exaggerated outreach easier to understand and shows why a message may feel impersonal or ineffective.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the reachrobin-lab plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to translate a pasted message line by line, with an optional rating of how much sales jargon it contains.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/reachrobin/skills/cringe-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 ReachRobin/skills --skill cringe-translator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ReachRobin/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install reachrobin-lab, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 744 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 $0.00034 $0.00744
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00372
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00074

Measured 10d ago against content hash 1d675538cff0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cringe-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 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.

skills/lab/cringe-translator/SKILL.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cringe Translator

Everyone gets cold LinkedIn outreach. Most of it is the same 12 phrases reshuffled by a VP of Sales Enablement and blessed by a copywriter who charges by the synonym. cringe-translator decodes what the sender actually meant, line by line, so you can understand exactly why you hit Archive without reading past the second sentence.

Inputs

A LinkedIn DM, cold email, or LinkedIn post. Pasted as plain text.

Output

A line-by-line translation. Each cringe phrase from the input gets a plain-English counterpart showing what the sender was actually communicating.

Format:

"Original phrase" -> "What it means."

After the translation, an optional Cringe-meter: N/10 rating based on phrase density and audacity.

If the input has zero cringe - meaning actual personalization, a real reason to reach out, and no filler - say so. Don't manufacture critique where none is warranted. (This will happen approximately never.)

Known patterns to decode

False personalization

"I came across your profile" -> "Your job title matches a filter." "Saw you're a thought leader in the space" -> "I scraped your last 3 posts." "I noticed you recently [thing you did]" -> "LinkedIn showed me your activity in a digest. I did not 'notice' anything."

Jargon as credibility

"We help companies like yours drive value at scale" -> "I have no idea what problem you have. Neither does my manager." "Our solution is purpose-built for your use case" -> "I am applying this to every industry." "We're in the same space" -> "We are both on LinkedIn."

Fake humility / fake brevity

"Quick question" -> "It is not a question. It is a pitch." "Just wanted to reach out" -> "My CRM told me to." "I'll keep this short" -> "I won't."

Faux urgency

"We're seeing strong adoption in your vertical" -> "Someone in a loosely adjacent industry signed up." "I'd hate for you to miss out on this" -> "This is a standard template. Nothing is expiring."

Passive-aggressive breakup messages

"Just bumping this up in case it got buried" -> "You ignored me and I'm pretending that's a logistics issue." "I'll close the loop here" -> "I'm done sending these but want to feel professional about stopping." "Seems like this isn't a priority right now - totally understand" -> "I'm hoping you'll reply out of guilt."

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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 · 68 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 1d675538cff0

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cringe-translator is a skill published in the GitHub repository ReachRobin/skills (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 744 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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