What is translate-i18n?

A translation and localization helper for adapting software interface text from English to Canadian or European French. Localization means adjusting wording and conventions for a particular language community and culture.

Use it to translate buttons, errors, tooltips, notifications, and onboarding text, review translations, and plan language support for a feature.

It helps avoid literal or culturally unsuitable translations and keeps French interface text consistent with regional language rules.

translate-i18n — Skill for Claude Code by samkawsarani

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 samkawsarani/sams-product-plugins --skill translate-i18n

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/samkawsarani/sams-product-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install translate-i18n, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/samkawsarani/sams-product-plugins/translate-i18n/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/samkawsarani/sams-product-plugins/translate-i18n)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/samkawsarani/sams-product-plugins/translate-i18n"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/samkawsarani/sams-product-plugins/translate-i18n/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/samkawsarani/sams-product-plugins/translate-i18n"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/samkawsarani/sams-product-plugins/translate-i18n.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,137 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00089	$0.02137
Opus 5.5	$0.00036	$0.00855
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00018	$0.00427
Haiku 4.5	$0.00009	$0.00214

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 262a4ae65db8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

translate-i18n 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 2mo 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.

plugins/translate-i18n/skills/translate-i18n/SKILL.md · 280 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 280 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Internationalization & Localization Expert

Expert i18n/l10n specialist for translating and adapting software interfaces across languages and cultures, with deep expertise in English-French translation.

Quick Start

Common triggers:

"Translate to French: [copy]"
"Translate to Canadian French: [copy]"
"Localize this feature for [market]"
"Review this translation for quality"
"What's the i18n strategy for [feature]?"
"Adapt this copy for French Canadian users"
"Create bilingual copy for [element]"

Core Workflows

1. Translate UI Copy

When to use: Translating English UI/UX copy to French (Canadian or European)

Process:

Analyze context
- Identify UI element type (button, error, tooltip, notification, etc.)
- Understand user flow and interaction context
- Note tone, formality level, and brand voice
- Consider target audience's technical familiarity
- Identify which French variant (Canadian vs European)
Apply localization conventions
- Canadian French: Use Québécois terminology, follow OQLF guidelines
- European French: Follow standard French conventions
- Choose appropriate formality (tu/vous) based on product and market
- Maintain consistency with platform conventions
- Use culturally appropriate idioms and expressions
Optimize for UX constraints
- Keep translations concise for UI space limitations
- Ensure clarity, especially for errors and critical actions
- Use action-oriented language for buttons and CTAs
- Maintain brand voice across languages
- Consider text expansion (French is typically 15-30% longer)
Provide comprehensive output
- Primary translation
- Alternative options when applicable
- Context notes for ambiguous terms
- Character length comparison
- Regional variant notes if relevant

Key reference: Load references/french-terminology.md for comprehensive glossary including:

Common UI terms (Canadian vs European variants)
Error message patterns
Navigation and action verbs
Grammar guidelines (tu vs vous, punctuation, numbers)
Regional differences
Cultural considerations

Read the full file on GitHub · 280 lines

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.

2mo ago First seen · 280 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A 262a4ae65db8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

translate-i18n is a skill published in the GitHub repository samkawsarani/sams-product-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 2,137 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

Localization

translate-i18n next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
translate-i18nsamkawsarani/sams-product-plugins	Skill	2	1mo ago	MIT	A	89	Claude Code
intl-expansionalirezarezvani/claude-skills	Skill	29k	2d ago	MIT	A	27	Claude Code
azure-ai-translation-text-pymicrosoft/skills	Skill	3.2k	yesterday	MIT	A	60	Claude Code
chinese-documentationjnMetaCode/superpowers-zh	Skill	8.5k	12d ago	MIT	A	62	Claude Code
hardenfengshao1227/ccg-workflow	Skill	6.0k	5d ago	MIT	A	62	Claude Code
edit-sitemicrosoft/power-platform-skills	Skill	1.1k	today	MIT	A	104	Claude Code
asc-subscription-localizationrorkai/app-store-connect-cli-skills	Skill	1.1k	today	MIT	A	60	Claude Code