Translate

by crbnos

Translate is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by crbnos in carbon.

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Install Translate

Copy Translate into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/crbnos/carbon/tree/main/.claude/skills/translate ~/.claude/skills/translate

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/crbnos/carbon.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/translate/SKILL.md in crbnos/carbon
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/translate
Collection: One of 47 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Translate does

Translate fills missing Lingui .po msgstr entries in locale catalogs using cheap Haiku subagents, then merges and verifies the results. Use it after adding UI strings or when you need to run the translation workflow without overwriting existing translations.

Translate is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Translate comes from a repository tagged business, erp, lean, management and manufacturing.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

translate — fill missing .po translations with a cheap model

Replaces pnpm translate (which would run every string through the main model). Instead: a deterministic script finds every empty msgstr, chunks them into jobs, Haiku subagents translate the chunks (invoked with model: "haiku" so the expensive main model only orchestrates), and a deterministic merge script writes them back — no model in the write path. Input → output: empty msgstr in packages/locale/locales/{locale}/{erp,mes}.po → filled msgstr.

Announce at start: "Using the translate skill — filling missing .po translations via Haiku subagents."

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Translate provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/check-and-commit

Frequently asked about Translate

What else does crbnos publish alongside Translate?
Translate is one of 47 skills that DirSkills catalogs from crbnos/carbon, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Browser, Agent Browser and Browser Error Snapshot. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Translate does, and is maintained by crbnos in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the crbnos/carbon page.
How does Translate compare to other Writing skills?
Translate ranks #265 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Translate against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.