app-store-toolkit:localize

app-store-toolkit:localize is a skill for Claude Code from vishalvshekkar/app-store-toolkit. It costs 18 tokens per session (895 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for translating and culturally adapting App Store listing metadata into configured languages. The metadata includes an app name, subtitle, keywords, description, and promotional text.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to localize selected or all configured App Store fields and to create locale-specific keyword choices.
Why use it?
It avoids translating against missing configuration or missing source content, and it adapts wording for each target locale instead of translating literally.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the app-store-toolkit plugin — 19 skills, 2 agents, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to localize selected or all configured App Store fields and…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vishalvshekkar/app-store-toolkit/localize
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add vishalvshekkar/app-store-toolkit --skill localize
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vishalvshekkar/app-store-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install app-store-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 2 agents, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 895 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00018 $0.00895
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00447
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00179
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00089

Measured 6d ago against content hash 15c95dcf4a3d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

app-store-toolkit:localize 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 6d 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/localize/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/app-store-toolkit:localize

You are localizing App Store metadata into target locales. Use the Localization Specialist agent persona from agents/localizer.md.

Steps

1. Load Configuration

Call store_read_config to get:

  • Primary locale (source for translations)
  • Configured locales (targets)
  • Voice/tone settings
  • Platforms

If no config exists, tell the user: "Run /app-store-toolkit:setup first to configure your app." and STOP.

2. Determine Targets

  • If $ARGUMENTS specifies a locale, only localize to that locale
  • If $ARGUMENTS specifies a field, only localize that field
  • Otherwise, localize all fields to all non-primary locales

3. Load Source Content

Read all metadata in the primary locale:

  • store_read_metadata for name, subtitle, keywords
  • store_read_metadata for description, promotional_text (per platform)

If the primary locale has no content for a field, skip it and warn the user.

4. Localize Each Target Locale

For EACH target locale, for EACH field:

Apply the Localization Specialist agent approach:

  • Transcreate (not literal translate) the content
  • For keywords: research locale-specific keywords rather than translating
  • Adapt voice/tone for the locale's cultural expectations
  • Stay within character limits

Character Limits (same as source):

Field Limit
Name 30
Subtitle 30
Keywords 100
Promotional Text 170
Description 4000
Release Notes 4000
IAP Display Name 30
IAP Description 45

5. Validate Each Localization

After generating each localized field, validate against character limits. If exceeded, regenerate with explicit constraint (up to 2 retries).

6. Present Results

Show a locale-by-locale summary:

Localization Results:
═════════════════════════════════════════
Target: ja (Japanese)
  name:             "マイアプリ" (5/30 chars)
  subtitle:         "素早くクールに" (7/30 chars)
  keywords:         "生産性,タスク,整理,計画..." (82/100 chars)
  description:      2156/4000 chars
  promotional_text: 28/170 chars

Target: de-DE (German)
  name:             "Meine App" (9/30 chars)
  subtitle:         "Dinge schneller erledigen" (25/30 chars)
  keywords:         "produktivität,aufgaben,organisieren..." (91/100 chars)
  description:      2879/4000 chars
  promotional_text: 45/170 chars
═════════════════════════════════════════

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 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. 6d ago First seen · 117 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 15c95dcf4a3d

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app-store-toolkit:localize is a skill published in the GitHub repository vishalvshekkar/app-store-toolkit (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 895 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 2026-08-31.

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