CD i18n-localization
Use when adding UI text, adding or shipping a language, reviewing translation files, or building i18n into an app. Checks missing keys, placeholders and CLDR plural forms with locale_sync.py, finds hardcoded strings with hardcoded_strings.py, and builds a pseudo-locale with pseudo_localize.py.
Checks missing keys, placeholders and CLDR plural forms with localesync.py, finds hardcoded strings with hardcodedstrings.py, and builds a pseudo-locale with…
As a process D 38/100 · Unfinished process — References files that are not bundled: assets/i18n-allow.example
The same skill appears in 2 more places: claude-skills, claude-skills
What is at stake
The skill contains fragments that, in the wrong hands, cost money or data. Below: what the installer risks and what the author should do.
The files contain invisible characters, encoded commands or comments hidden from readers but visible to the model. What you read differs from what the agent sees.
Remove invisible characters (they usually sneak in through copy-paste) and encoded strings: no catalog will pass them. Instructions for the model must be readable by a human too.
How to improve
- Address the high-severity findings: each costs 18 safety points. If one is a false positive, add the rule id to guard.allow in spec.yaml.
- The text references files that are not there: add them or drop the references.
- Your own cases (evals/evals.json, 4–6 real requests with expected answers): the full check would then run those instead of a model-drafted suite.
- A spec.yaml with trigger phrases and assertions — a behaviour contract for CI; `skilltest init` writes a template.
Guard findings · 1
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high Obfuscation
uni-bidi-overridescripts/pseudo_localize.py:33Bidirectional override characters (Trojan Source) (2 occurrences)RLO, PDF = '␀', '␀'
Files scanned: 8. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: assets/i18n-allow.example - note
edit-residuethe text marks something as outdated (lines 38): check that old rules are not kept next to new ones — the full check reads the text for contradictions
Process rating: all ten parameters 38/100
- 0Tools and files. 1 referenced file(s) missing: assets/i18n-allow.example
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 30Running it twice. 1 mutating operations with no state check
- 50Failures and branches. 0 branches, has a failure section
- 100Steps. 11 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1053 tokens
- medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
Everything here is measured from the skill text rather than judged by a model, so the numbers are checkable. A parameter weighs more when it is a more common reason for the process to stall.
Quality signals
- +5Description has no quoted example phrases that should trigger the skill
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 294: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 5 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 11 items
- +4Has examples (1 code blocks)
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (3 of 3)
- +3All 3 scripts are documented
- +1License stated
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 86.