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Agent skill

Transcreation

by jeremylongshore in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace

Transforms marketing content across languages and markets through transcreation — adapting message, tone, and cultural references instead of translating word for word — while honoring per-locale…

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Transcreation

skills CLI
$ npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill transcreation -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace transcreation --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/productivity/content-multiplier/skills/transcreation .claude/skills/transcreation && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
transcreation
GitHub stars
2.8k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
604 words
Files
3 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
3,342
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Transforms marketing content across languages and markets through transcreation — adapting message, tone, and cultural references instead of translating word for word — while honoring per-locale…

  • Works in 9 steps: Read the base brand files, then read any… → Adapt, do not translate: rework idioms,… → Set the register: choose the correct… → …
  • Localizing content
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, Prerequisites, Instructions and Output, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Transcreation is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Transforms marketing content across languages and markets through transcreation — adapting message, tone, and cultural references instead of translating word for word — while honoring per-locale brand rules and a do-not-translate glossary. Use when localizing content or when a locale is set. Trigger with "transcreate", "localize", "adapt for a market", or "/localize".

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 3 other files, including reference files (for example `references/locale-checklist.md` and `references/transcreation-guide.md`). Compatibility notes: Designed for Claude Code

It sits in Writing & Content, covering Translation. The repository describes itself as: Model-agnostic agent-skills platform with a harness-free canonical layer, verified adapters, and the ccpi package manager. Explore at tonsofskills.com. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Localizing content
  • A locale is set
  • With transcreate
  • Adapt for a market

Example prompts

  • “transcreate”
  • “localize”
  • “adapt for a market”
  • “/transcreation”

Requirements

  • Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code
  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Write, Glob

Workflow steps

9 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Read the base brand files, then read any locales// overrides. Locale rules win for that market.
  2. Adapt, do not translate: rework idioms, humor, and references into locale equivalents, keeping the effect rather than the words.
  3. Set the register: choose the correct formality and honorifics for the persona and locale (Sie or du, keigo, tu or usted).
  4. Convert locale specifics: units, currency, date and number formats, names, and examples.
  5. Protect the glossary: never translate product names, trademarks, or taglines unless the brand supplies a sanctioned translation.
  6. Check the channel limit: text expands or contracts across languages, so re-fit each asset with the channel-formats spec.
  7. Verify compliance against the locale's compliance.md: disclaimers and prohibited terms can differ by country.
  8. Handle scripts: apply right-to-left rules for Arabic and Hebrew and correct spacing for CJK.
  9. When asked, emit a back-translation plus a short note on adaptation choices so a non-native approver can sign off.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cfae287. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Read
    • Write
    • Glob

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

  • Compatibility

    Designed for Claude Code

    From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Transcreation loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~3.6k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 96 tokens; SKILL.md has 604 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~96
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~3.6k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace at commit cfae287, republished under its MIT licence (© jeremylongshore). 604 words, ~1,320 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/transcreation/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 2 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
transcreation
description
Transforms marketing content across languages and markets through transcreation — adapting message, tone, and cultural references instead of translating word for word — while honoring per-locale brand rules and a do-not-translate glossary. Use when localizing content or when a locale is set. Trigger with "transcreate", "localize", "adapt for a market", or "/localize".
allowed-tools
Read, Write, Glob
compatibility
Designed for Claude Code
argument-hint
--locales xx-XX,yy-YY [--brand <name>] [--back-translation]
version
0.2.1
author
localplugins <localplugins@proton.me>
license
MIT
tags
localization, transcreation, marketing, content, internationalization

Transcreation

Overview

Transcreation adapts content into another language so it feels native, preserving intent, brand voice, and emotional impact rather than translating literally. The wording is reworked; the effect is kept.

Literal translation breaks marketing: idioms fall flat, humor is lost, and register goes wrong. This skill loads the base brand profile and the target locale's overrides, reworks the copy for that market, protects do-not-translate glossary terms, and re-checks compliance and channel limits for the new language. It is instruction-driven and writes localized files, with no accounts, keys, or network access.

Prerequisites

  • Source content to localize and one or more target locales in xx-XX form (for example de-DE, ja-JP).
  • The base brand profile plus any content/brand/locales/<xx-XX>/ overrides. The skill uses Glob and Read to find and load them and Write to save each localized asset.
  • The style-guide.md glossary section (Product and Trademark Names) for do-not-translate terms, and the locale's compliance.md for market-specific rules.

Instructions

  1. Read the base brand files, then read any locales/<xx-XX>/ overrides. Locale rules win for that market.
  2. Adapt, do not translate: rework idioms, humor, and references into locale equivalents, keeping the effect rather than the words.
  3. Set the register: choose the correct formality and honorifics for the persona and locale (Sie or du, keigo, tu or usted).
  4. Convert locale specifics: units, currency, date and number formats, names, and examples.
  5. Protect the glossary: never translate product names, trademarks, or taglines unless the brand supplies a sanctioned translation.
  6. Check the channel limit: text expands or contracts across languages, so re-fit each asset with the channel-formats spec.
  7. Verify compliance against the locale's compliance.md: disclaimers and prohibited terms can differ by country.
  8. Handle scripts: apply right-to-left rules for Arabic and Hebrew and correct spacing for CJK.
  9. When asked, emit a back-translation plus a short note on adaptation choices so a non-native approver can sign off.

Output

One localized file per asset per locale, mirroring the source filenames under a locale folder (for example de-DE/linkedin.md). Each asset is transcreated, glossary-safe, compliance-checked for that market, and re-fitted to its channel limit. When a back-translation is requested, each localized asset is paired with a literal back-translation and an adaptation note for approver sign-off.

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Error Handling

ConditionBehavior
No locale override foundUse the base brand rules; note that no market-specific overrides were applied
Glossary term has no sanctioned translationKeep the source term verbatim; never invent a localized name
Compliance rules differ by marketApply the locale's compliance.md; flag any claim that cannot cross the border
Text overflows the channel after adaptationRe-fit with channel-formats before writing the file
Idiom or joke has no equivalentSubstitute a locally resonant alternative and record the choice in the adaptation note

Examples

Example: localize into two markets

/localize post.md --locales de-DE,ja-JP

Loads each locale's overrides, transcreates the post for German and Japanese, protects glossary terms, and writes de-DE/ and ja-JP/ versions.

Example: request a back-translation

/localize offer.md --locales fr-FR --back-translation

Produces the French asset plus a literal back-translation and an adaptation note for sign-off.

Example: localized as part of multiply

/multiply brief.md --channels linkedin --locales es-ES

Drafts the LinkedIn asset, then transcreates it for Spanish and re-fits it to the channel limit.

See also the companion skills brand-voice (per-locale voice and compliance) and channel-formats (re-fit expanded or contracted text to each channel).

Resources

  • references/transcreation-guide.md — worked before/after transcreations, formality-by-locale guidance, glossary handling, unit, currency, and date conversion tables, right-to-left and CJK notes, and how to produce a back-translation.
  • references/locale-checklist.md — a step-by-step per-locale checklist and the common failure modes (literal idioms, broken glossary terms, compliance carried across a border, overflowed channel limits).

© jeremylongshore, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in plugins/productivity/content-multiplier/skills/transcreation of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/locale-checklist.md
  • references/transcreation-guide.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cfae287

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Questions about Transcreation

What does Transcreation do?

Transforms marketing content across languages and markets through transcreation — adapting message, tone, and cultural references instead of translating word for word — while honoring per-locale…. Transcreation is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Transforms marketing content across languages and markets through transcreation — adapting message, tone, and cultural references instead of translating word for word — while honoring per-locale brand rules and a do-not-translate glossary.

When should I use Transcreation?

Transcreation fits situations like: localizing content; A locale is set; with transcreate; adapt for a market.

How do I install Transcreation in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill transcreation -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/productivity/content-multiplier/skills/transcreation in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace) into .claude/skills/transcreation in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Transcreation in Codex?

Run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill transcreation -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/productivity/content-multiplier/skills/transcreation in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace) into .agents/skills/transcreation in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Transcreation in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill transcreation -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/transcreation, .gemini/skills/transcreation, .github/skills/transcreation and .opencode/skills/transcreation in your project.

What does Transcreation need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Transcreation is instructions for the agent only. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Write, Glob. Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code.

Does Transcreation access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Transcreation safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Transcreation use?

Transcreation is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Transcreation use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 2.3k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Transcreation?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Transcreation: Translation Diff Export (Devolutions/UniGetUI, 26k stars), Sync Translations (symfony/symfony, 31k stars), Translation Diff Import (Devolutions/UniGetUI, 26k stars) and Translation Diff Translate (Devolutions/UniGetUI, 26k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Transcreation?

jeremylongshore (a GitHub user) maintains it in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace, which has 2,827 GitHub stars. The repository holds 3,342 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

Source: jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.