readme-translate

readme-translate is a skill for Claude Code from seob717/nunchi. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,029 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for creating or updating a translated copy of an English README, the main guide file in a software repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding a new README language or synchronising an existing translation at release time.
Why use it?
It keeps translations tied to the current English version and preserves factual claims, names, links, and release information.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Part of the nunchi plugin — 1 skill, 2 commands, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when adding a new README language or synchronising an existing translation at release time.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/seob717/nunchi/readme-translate
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 seob717/nunchi --skill readme-translate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/seob717/nunchi

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nunchi, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 2 commands, 3 hooks.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,029 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 $0.00056 $0.01029
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00515
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00206
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00103

Measured 10d ago against content hash 131d33e4fedb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

readme-translate 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/check.py), 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.

.claude/skills/readme-translate/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

readme-translate

Translate the canonical README.md into README.<lang>.md as a release-time snapshot. The English README is always canonical; translations never lead.

Procedure

  1. Pin the base. Record the current release tag and main commit (git log -1 --format=%h origin/main, gh release view --json tagName). These go in the snapshot header.
  2. Read README.md in full. Never translate from an older translation — always from the current English canonical.
  3. Write the header block at the top of the translation:
    • Language switcher linking every existing README language, e.g. [English](README.md) | **한국어**. Add the new language to the switcher of all other READMEs too.
    • Snapshot note (blockquote): this is a translation of the English README, base release + commit, English wins on any mismatch, synced at release time only.
  4. Translate section by section following the style rules and glossary below.
  5. Run the gate check (mandatory, before any commit):
    python3 .claude/skills/readme-translate/scripts/check.py README.md README.ko.md --banned 배달 재무장 강도 캐비앗
    
    Fix every hard failure; review every reported soft item line by line.
  6. PR per .claude/rules/pr-rules.md (docs: title; body states base commit and gate results).

Style rules

Write target-language technical prose, not translated English:

  • Break the source syntax. Split multi-clause English sentences; reorder to the target language's natural word order. If a sentence reads like it was translated, rewrite it.
  • Translate meaning, never idioms word-for-word. "upfront freight", "credit where due", "scope map, not a scoreboard" → render the point in a natural target-language phrasing.
  • No transliterated loanwords when a common native word exists (ko: "캐비앗" → 한계/단서).
  • Product terms use commonly understood words — English original in parentheses at first mention, target language only afterwards.
  • Tone: plain declarative documentation register (ko: 합니다체, consistent throughout).

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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 · 65 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 131d33e4fedb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

readme-translate is a skill published in the GitHub repository seob717/nunchi (8 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,029 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 2026-08-31.

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