Legal Terminology
THUYRan/Legal-Skills-Chinese
Trigger this skill when an AI agent, in generating, reviewing, or revising any legal text (including but not limited to contracts, pleadings, legal opinions, judicial documents, statutory…
Pick the right LLM for LEGAL TRANSLATION — translating contracts, statutes, case law, and legal correspondence across languages, including Arabic/MENA.
Install Route Legal Translation
$ npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill route-legal-translation -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills route-legal-translation --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/legal-ai-model-router-stephane-boghossian/skills/route-legal-translation .claude/skills/route-legal-translation && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "route-legal-translation" agent skill from https://github.com/lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills/tree/main/skills/legal-ai-model-router-stephane-boghossian/skills/route-legal-translation into .claude/skills/route-legal-translation/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "route-legal-translation", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills/tree/main/skills/legal-ai-model-router-stephane-boghossian/skills/route-legal-translationType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill route-legal-translation -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills route-legal-translation --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/legal-ai-model-router-stephane-boghossian/skills/route-legal-translation .agents/skills/route-legal-translation && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "route-legal-translation" agent skill from https://github.com/lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills/tree/main/skills/legal-ai-model-router-stephane-boghossian/skills/route-legal-translation into .agents/skills/route-legal-translation/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "route-legal-translation", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill route-legal-translation -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills route-legal-translation --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/legal-ai-model-router-stephane-boghossian/skills/route-legal-translation .cursor/skills/route-legal-translation && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "route-legal-translation" agent skill from https://github.com/lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills/tree/main/skills/legal-ai-model-router-stephane-boghossian/skills/route-legal-translation into .cursor/skills/route-legal-translation/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "route-legal-translation", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills.git --path skills/legal-ai-model-router-stephane-boghossian/skills/route-legal-translation--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill route-legal-translation -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills route-legal-translation --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/legal-ai-model-router-stephane-boghossian/skills/route-legal-translation .gemini/skills/route-legal-translation && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "route-legal-translation" agent skill from https://github.com/lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills/tree/main/skills/legal-ai-model-router-stephane-boghossian/skills/route-legal-translation into .gemini/skills/route-legal-translation/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "route-legal-translation", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills route-legal-translationInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill route-legal-translation -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/legal-ai-model-router-stephane-boghossian/skills/route-legal-translation .github/skills/route-legal-translation && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "route-legal-translation" agent skill from https://github.com/lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills/tree/main/skills/legal-ai-model-router-stephane-boghossian/skills/route-legal-translation into .github/skills/route-legal-translation/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "route-legal-translation", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill route-legal-translation -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills route-legal-translation --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/legal-ai-model-router-stephane-boghossian/skills/route-legal-translation .opencode/skills/route-legal-translation && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "route-legal-translation" agent skill from https://github.com/lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills/tree/main/skills/legal-ai-model-router-stephane-boghossian/skills/route-legal-translation into .opencode/skills/route-legal-translation/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "route-legal-translation", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
route-legal-translation- GitHub stars
- 847
- Token cost
- ~1.4k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 498 words
- Files
- 2 (incl. references)
- Skills in repo
- 154
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0-or-later
At a glance
Pick the right LLM for LEGAL TRANSLATION — translating contracts, statutes, case law, and legal correspondence across languages, including Arabic/MENA.
- Works in 3 steps: Infer, then ask only what's missing → Route (directional — no benchmark ranks… → Output (use this exact shape)
- Someone asks which model to translate this contract/statute
- SKILL.md covers Read this first — the honest…, Step 1 — Infer, then ask only…, Step 2 — Route (directional —… and Step 3 — Output (use this…, plus 1 more section
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Route Legal Translation is an agent skill from lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills. Pick the right LLM for LEGAL TRANSLATION — translating contracts, statutes, case law, and legal correspondence across languages, including Arabic/MENA. Vendor-neutral routing triangulated from mid-2026 evidence (WMT25 human eval, SwiLTra-Bench legal-MT, multilingual-reasoning proxies, ArabLegalEval). There is NO clean legal-translation leaderboard, so this vertical is directional and treats human legal-linguist review as mandatory. Asks up to 4 quick questions (language pair, cost, speed, privacy/certification)…
Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/scorecard.md`).
It sits in Writing & Content, covering Translation and Legal research. The repository describes itself as: A curated list of awesome Agent Skills for automating legal work. The licence is AGPL-3.0-or-later.
When your agent uses it
- Someone asks which model to translate this contract/statute
- Best AI for legal translation
- Translate this legal doc to/from Arabic
- Is about to machine-translate legal text without a fixed model
Example prompts
- “which model to translate this contract/statute”
- “best AI for legal translation”
- “translate this legal doc to/from Arabic”
- “/route-legal-translation”
Requirements
- Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): AskUserQuestion, Read
Workflow steps
3 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 045f738. 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:
AskUserQuestionRead
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.
Context cost
Route Legal Translation loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs, and up to ~3k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 211 tokens; SKILL.md has 498 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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 lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills at commit 045f738, republished under its AGPL-3.0-or-later licence (© lawve-ai). 498 words, ~1,449 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/route-legal-translation/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.- name
- route-legal-translation
- description
- Pick the right LLM for LEGAL TRANSLATION — translating contracts, statutes, case law, and legal correspondence across languages, including Arabic/MENA. Vendor-neutral routing triangulated from mid-2026 evidence (WMT25 human eval, SwiLTra-Bench legal-MT, multilingual-reasoning proxies, ArabLegalEval). There is NO clean legal-translation leaderboard, so this vertical is directional and treats human legal-linguist review as mandatory. Asks up to 4 quick questions (language pair, cost, speed, privacy/certification), then recommends a primary model + fallback + what to avoid + what a human must verify. Use when someone asks "which model to translate this contract/statute", "best AI for legal translation", "translate this legal doc to/from Arabic", or is about to machine-translate legal text without a fixed model.
- allowed-tools
- AskUserQuestion, Read
- version
- 0.1.0
- triggers
- which model to translate this contract or statute, best AI for legal translation, translate this legal doc to or from Arabic, route this legal translation task
- license
- AGPL-3.0-or-later
Route: Legal Translation
You are a model-routing advisor for legal translation — rendering contracts, statutes, case law, and legal correspondence across languages. You recommend which model to translate with; you don't translate here. Decision support, not legal advice, and never a substitute for a qualified legal translator.
Read this first — the honest caveat
There is no reliable public legal-translation leaderboard for frontier LLMs. This vertical is triangulated from general MT benchmarks, multilingual-reasoning proxies, and a few legal-MT studies. So:
- The LLM produces a first draft, not a final translation. A human legal-linguist review is mandatory, not optional — documented industry consensus.
- No LLM output can be certified/sworn. That's a procedural/accountability gap, permanently outside model quality. If the translation must be certified, an accredited human translator signs it — full stop.
- The dangerous failure modes are not fluency; they are negation errors, jurisdiction-concept mismatch (common-law "discovery"/"plea bargain" have no civil-law equivalent), broken cross-references, and wrong legal effect. Glossaries fix terminology consistency but none of these.
Step 1 — Infer, then ask only what's missing
Batched, multiple-choice, recommended-first:
- Language pair — ask this; it drives the pick. (e.g.
EN↔AR,EN↔FR,EN↔ZH,DE↔EN, other.) - Purpose / certification —
Understanding/gist·Working draft for a lawyer to finalize·Must be certified/sworn(→ route to a human translator; LLM only pre-drafts). - Privacy —
Cloud OK·Client-privileged → self-hostable/on-prem. - Cost / speed / length —
Balanced·Minimize·Fast·Long document (needs big context).
Default if "just pick": Working draft, cloud OK, balanced — with mandatory human review flagged.
Show full SKILL.md (257 more words)Show less
Step 2 — Route (directional — no benchmark ranks like the other verticals)
| Situation | Primary | Why | Watch out |
|---|---|---|---|
| Default / best register & tone | Claude Opus 4.8 (or Fable 5) | Professional translators prefer Claude for tone/register; strong on DE/JA/KO/NL/IT. | Not WMT's raw-accuracy #1 on every pair. |
| Broad language coverage / long documents | Gemini 3.x Pro | WMT25 human-eval winner family (topped 14/16 pairs); largest context; leads ZH/PT-BR/UK. | Register can read flatter than Claude on some pairs. |
| EN↔Arabic (MENA) | Gemini 3.1 Pro or Claude Opus 4.8 | Best available proxy from Arabic reasoning (Gemini ~93, Claude ~91–92); Claude's Arabic prose reads more natural. | No Arabic legal-MT benchmark exists — proxy only. Avoid Mistral for Arabic (documented weak point). |
| Privacy / on-prem / self-hostable | Qwen (Qwen-MT) or Cohere Aya | Purpose-built multilingual, strongest self-hostable Arabic/MT options. | Legal fidelity still needs human review; open ≠ safe unsupervised. |
| Highest raw MT accuracy (non-legal register) | Gemini family | WMT25 human-eval leader overall. | Rankings are metric-dependent and flip between studies. |
Cross-cutting: for civil-law ↔ common-law pairs, expect concept-mapping failures no model handles — flag them for the human. For statutes/legislation, prefer the official published translation where one exists (e.g. EUR-Lex authentic texts) over any MT.
Step 3 — Output (use this exact shape)
PRIMARY: <model> — <tie to language pair + purpose>
FALLBACK: <model> — <when to switch>
ESCALATE IF: certified/sworn needed → HUMAN accredited legal translator (LLM pre-draft only)
AVOID: <model> — <why> (e.g. Mistral for Arabic; any single long-context pass for a long statute)
CONFIDENCE: low (this vertical is directional — say so honestly)
VERIFY: Negation not inverted · jurisdiction-specific concepts flagged, not mistranslated · cross-
references intact · legal effect preserved · MANDATORY human legal-linguist review.Non-negotiables
- Human legal-linguist review is mandatory on every legal translation — this is the one vertical where the model is explicitly a drafting aid, never the deliverable.
- Never present an LLM translation as certified. Certification is a human accountability act.
- Directional, not benchmark-backed — do not overstate confidence the way §1–§3 verticals allow.
- Deeper evidence + sources (WMT25, SwiLTra-Bench, ArabLegalEval):
references/scorecard.mdand repodata/scorecard-2026-07.md. - Routes models, not legal advice.
© lawve-ai, AGPL-3.0-or-later. 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 1 other file (references) in skills/legal-ai-model-router-stephane-boghossian/skills/route-legal-translation of lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills.
- SKILL.md
- references/scorecard.md
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 045f738
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| Route Legal Translation this skilllawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills | 847 | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0-or-later | |
| Legal TerminologyTHUYRan/Legal-Skills-Chinese | 874 | — | ~11k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Lokalise Data Handlingjeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace | 2.8k | — | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Translation Diff ExportDevolutions/UniGetUI | 26k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Sync Translationssymfony/symfony | 31k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Translation Diff ImportDevolutions/UniGetUI | 26k | — | ~750 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Route Legal Translation
What does Route Legal Translation do?
Pick the right LLM for LEGAL TRANSLATION — translating contracts, statutes, case law, and legal correspondence across languages, including Arabic/MENA. Route Legal Translation is an agent skill from lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills. Pick the right LLM for LEGAL TRANSLATION — translating contracts, statutes, case law, and legal correspondence across languages, including Arabic/MENA.
When should I use Route Legal Translation?
Route Legal Translation fits situations like: someone asks which model to translate this contract/statute; best AI for legal translation; translate this legal doc to/from Arabic; is about to machine-translate legal text without a fixed model.
How do I install Route Legal Translation in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill route-legal-translation -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/legal-ai-model-router-stephane-boghossian/skills/route-legal-translation in lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills) into .claude/skills/route-legal-translation in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Route Legal Translation in Codex?
Run `npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill route-legal-translation -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/legal-ai-model-router-stephane-boghossian/skills/route-legal-translation in lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills) into .agents/skills/route-legal-translation in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Route Legal Translation 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 lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill route-legal-translation -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/route-legal-translation, .gemini/skills/route-legal-translation, .github/skills/route-legal-translation and .opencode/skills/route-legal-translation in your project.
What does Route Legal Translation need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Route Legal Translation is instructions for the agent only. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: AskUserQuestion, Read.
Does Route Legal Translation 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 Route Legal Translation 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 Route Legal Translation use?
Route Legal Translation is published under the AGPL-3.0-or-later licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Route Legal Translation use?
About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.8k 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 1.5k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.
What are the alternatives to Route Legal Translation?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Route Legal Translation: Legal Terminology (THUYRan/Legal-Skills-Chinese, 874 stars), Lokalise Data Handling (jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace, 2.8k stars), Translation Diff Export (Devolutions/UniGetUI, 26k stars) and Sync Translations (symfony/symfony, 31k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Route Legal Translation?
lawve-ai (a GitHub organization) maintains it in lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills, which has 847 GitHub stars. The repository holds 154 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 2, 2026.
Source: lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.