localization-strategy

localization-strategy is a skill for Claude Code from rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills. It costs 65 tokens per session (5,451 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A localization strategy for adapting iOS and macOS apps to different languages and markets.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan translations, internationalization, right-to-left layouts, localized App Store listings, and market priorities.
Why use it?
It helps decide which languages and regions to support and avoid translation, cultural, layout, and store-listing problems.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; positional $N argument.

Part of the apple-skills plugin — 147 skills shipped together , and of apple-skills

Good fit Use it to plan translations, internationalization, right-to-left layouts, localized App Store listings, and market priorities.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/localization-strategy
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 rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills --skill localization-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install apple-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 147 skills.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,451 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00065 $0.05451
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.02726
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.01090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00545

Measured 5d ago against content hash 9ac7fc8e5712, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

localization-strategy 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 5d 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/product/localization-strategy/SKILL.md · 595 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 595 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Localization Strategy

End-to-end localization planning for Apple platform apps — from market prioritization through translation workflow to localized App Store optimization.

When This Skill Activates

Use this skill when the user:

  • Wants to localize their app for new markets
  • Asks "which languages should I support?"
  • Needs help deciding market expansion priorities
  • Wants to plan a translation workflow
  • Asks about internationalization (i18n) best practices
  • Mentions "localization", "translation", "multi-language", or "global markets"
  • Wants to understand localization ROI by language
  • Needs cost estimates for translation
  • Asks about right-to-left (RTL) layout support
  • Wants to localize App Store metadata (title, description, keywords, screenshots)

Process

Phase 1: Market Prioritization Framework

Not all languages are equal. Prioritize by revenue potential, not just speaker count.

Revenue Potential by Language

Based on App Store revenue data and per-user spending patterns:

Language Relative Revenue Potential Why
English Baseline (1.0x) Largest single market, highest per-user spend
Japanese 0.8-1.2x Extremely high willingness to pay, especially for subscriptions
Chinese (Simplified) 0.6-0.9x Massive volume, growing per-user spend, competitive market
German 0.4-0.6x High per-user spend, values quality and privacy
French 0.3-0.5x Large market across France, Canada, Africa
Korean 0.3-0.5x Tech-savvy users, high app spending per capita
Spanish 0.3-0.4x Huge population, lower per-user spend, growing market
Portuguese (Brazilian) 0.2-0.4x Large market, mobile-first users, growing economy

Key insight: Japanese and German users often pay 2-3x more per user than Spanish or Portuguese users. Volume vs. value is the fundamental tradeoff.

Category-Specific Priorities

App category changes which languages to prioritize first:

Read the full file on GitHub · 595 lines

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. 5d ago First seen · 595 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 9ac7fc8e5712

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localization-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills (710 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 5,451 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.