i18n-patterns

i18n-patterns is a skill for Claude Code from ThibautBaissac/rails_ai_agents. It costs 79 tokens per session (1,429 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of Rails patterns for adding multiple languages to an application. Rails I18n is the built-in system for translations, language selection, local dates and currencies, and plural forms such as “item” and “items.”

In plain words
What is it for?
Adding translations, managing locale files, localizing dates and currencies, handling pluralization, and translating model, view, mailer, or component text.
Why use it?
It keeps translated text and language-specific formatting organized instead of scattering them through application code. It also supports fallback languages when a translation is missing.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: paths in frontmatter. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Adding translations, managing locale files, localizing dates and currencies, handling pluralization, and translating model, view, mailer, or component text.

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npx agentmods add skills/thibautbaissac/rails_ai_agents/i18n-patterns
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ThibautBaissac/rails_ai_agents --skill i18n-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ThibautBaissac/rails_ai_agents

Made for: Claude Code.

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When invoked 1,429 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
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Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00143

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Security

Grade A, and why

i18n-patterns 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.

.agents/skills/i18n-patterns/SKILL.md · 207 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 207 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

I18n Patterns for Rails 8

Overview

Rails I18n provides internationalization support:

  • Translation lookups
  • Locale management
  • Date/time/currency formatting
  • Pluralization rules
  • Lazy lookups in views

Quick Start

# config/application.rb
config.i18n.default_locale = :en
config.i18n.available_locales = [:en, :fr, :de]
config.i18n.fallbacks = true

Project Structure

config/locales/
├── en.yml                    # English defaults
├── fr.yml                    # French defaults
├── models/
│   ├── en.yml               # Model translations (EN)
│   └── fr.yml               # Model translations (FR)
├── views/
│   ├── en.yml               # View translations (EN)
│   └── fr.yml               # View translations (FR)
├── mailers/
│   ├── en.yml               # Mailer translations (EN)
│   └── fr.yml               # Mailer translations (FR)
└── components/
    ├── en.yml               # Component translations (EN)
    └── fr.yml               # Component translations (FR)

Locale File Organization

Organize locale files by domain: models/, views/, mailers/, components/.

  • Models: activerecord.models, activerecord.attributes, activerecord.errors
  • Views: nested under controller name and action (e.g. events.index.title)
  • Shared: common.actions, common.messages, common.date.formats
  • Components: components.<component_name>.<key>

See locale-files.md for complete YAML examples for models, views, shared keys, and components.

Usage Patterns

Key Principles

  • Use lazy lookup in views: t(".title") resolves to "events.index.title"
  • Use _html suffix for strings containing HTML markup
  • Use I18n.l (localize) for dates, times, and numbers — not I18n.t
  • Use I18n.t with full key path in models, services, and presenters
  • Pass dynamic values via interpolation: t(".greeting", name: user.name)

In Views

<h1><%= t(".title") %></h1>
<%= link_to t(".new_event"), new_event_path %>
<p><%= t(".welcome", name: current_user.name) %></p>
<p><%= t(".intro_html", link: link_to("here", help_path)) %></p>

Read the full file on GitHub · 207 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.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 207 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A c5e3387e9ba0

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i18n-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository ThibautBaissac/rails_ai_agents (661 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 1,429 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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