internationalization

internationalization is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from VeryGoodOpenSource/vgv-ai-flutter-plugin. It costs 23 tokens per session (1,417 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of internationalization and localization practices for Flutter apps. Internationalization prepares an app for multiple languages and writing directions; localization supplies the language-specific text and layout.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to organize Flutter translations with ARB files, connect them through Flutter's built-in localization tools, pass translated text into reusable widgets, and support right-to-left layouts.
Why use it?
It prevents user-facing text from being scattered through code and helps the interface work in right-to-left languages. Keeping translations in ARB files gives the project one place to manage them.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the vgv-ai-flutter-plugin plugin — 15 skills, 1 agent, 3 hooks, 2 MCP servers shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/verygoodopensource/vgv-ai-flutter-plugin/internationalization
Any agent
npx skills add VeryGoodOpenSource/vgv-ai-flutter-plugin --skill internationalization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VeryGoodOpenSource/vgv-ai-flutter-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install vgv-ai-flutter-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 1 agent, 3 hooks, 2 MCP servers.

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.

agentmods badge for internationalization

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/verygoodopensource/vgv-ai-flutter-plugin/internationalization"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/verygoodopensource/vgv-ai-flutter-plugin/internationalization.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,417 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00023 $0.01417
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00709
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00283
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00142

Measured 4d ago against content hash 2d87919445e8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

internationalization 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 4d 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/internationalization/SKILL.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Internationalization

Internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) best practices for Flutter applications using Flutter's built-in localization system with ARB files as the single source of truth.

Core Standards

Apply these standards to ALL internationalization work:

  • Never hardcode user-facing strings — all text must go through the l10n system
  • Use Flutter's built-in localization systemflutter_localizations + intl, never third-party i18n libraries
  • ARB files are the single source of truth for all translations
  • BuildContext extension for cleaner l10n access — use context.l10n instead of AppLocalizations.of(context)
  • Pass localized strings as parameters to reusable widgets — never couple shared widgets directly to AppLocalizations
  • Use EdgeInsetsDirectional (start/end) instead of EdgeInsets (left/right) — ensures correct layout in RTL languages
  • Handle RTL layout properly — use directional widgets for padding, positioning, and alignment
  • Implement i18n early — even if only one language is planned initially, the overhead is small and the long-term benefit is significant

Key Definitions

Term Definition
Locale Set of properties defining user region, language, and preferences (currency, time, numbers)
Localization (l10n) Process of adapting software for a specific language by translating text and adding regional layouts
Internationalization (i18n) Process of designing software so it can be adapted to different languages without engineering changes

Setup Pipeline and ARB File Format

Add flutter_localizations and intl as dependencies, enable generate: true in pubspec.yaml, configure l10n.yaml, create ARB files in lib/l10n/arb/, run flutter gen-l10n, and wire up MaterialApp with localizationsDelegates and supportedLocales. ARB files support simple strings, placeholders, and ICU plural syntax.

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 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. 4d ago First seen · 157 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 2d87919445e8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

internationalization is a skill published in the GitHub repository VeryGoodOpenSource/vgv-ai-flutter-plugin (160 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 1,417 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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