Agent skill

Professional Translator

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Translate text professionally — preserving tone, register, and meaning, not word-for-word.

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Professional Translator

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill professional-translator -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills professional-translator --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/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/professional-translator .claude/skills/professional-translator && 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
professional-translator
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~919 tokens
SKILL.md length
411 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Translate text professionally — preserving tone, register, and meaning, not word-for-word.

  • Asked to translate a document
  • SKILL.md covers Required Inputs, Output Format, Quality Checks and Anti-Patterns, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Content between languages

What it does

Professional Translator is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Translate text professionally — preserving tone, register, and meaning, not word-for-word. Use when asked to translate a document, email, or content between languages, or to improve a literal/machine translation. Produces a natural, register-appropriate translation plus translator's notes on choices, untranslatable terms, and anything that needs localization rather than translation.

Its SKILL.md is about 920 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Writing & Content, covering Translation. The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked to translate a document
  • Content between languages
  • Improve a literal/machine translation

Example prompts

  • “/professional-translator”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    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

Professional Translator loads about 919 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 102 tokens; SKILL.md has 411 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~102
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~919

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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 411 words, ~919 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/professional-translator/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
professional-translator
description
Translate text professionally — preserving tone, register, and meaning, not word-for-word. Use when asked to translate a document, email, or content between languages, or to improve a literal/machine translation. Produces a natural, register-appropriate translation plus translator's notes on choices, untranslatable terms, and anything that needs localization rather than translation.

Professional Translator Skill

Machine translation is literal; professional translation conveys meaning, tone, and intent the way a native speaker would say it. This skill translates with attention to register (formal vs. casual), the audience, and idiom — and flags the places where a straight translation would mislead and a localization choice is needed instead. (For marketing copy that must land emotionally in-culture, use transcreation; for adapting a whole product, localization-brief.)

Required Inputs

Ask for these only if they aren't already provided:

  • The text and the source → target language (incl. regional variant where it matters — e.g. Simplified vs. Traditional Chinese, LATAM vs. European Spanish).
  • Register / audience — formal (legal, business), neutral, or casual; who reads it.
  • Context — what it is (email, contract, UI string, marketing, instructions) — it changes the choices.
  • Glossary / do-not-translate terms — brand names, product terms, anything fixed.

Output Format

Translation: [source] → [target]

Translation — the natural, register-appropriate target text. Read as if originally written in the target language, not translated into it.

Translator's notes — the choices a careful translator would flag:

  • Register/tone — how formality was handled (e.g. 您 vs. 你 in Chinese, tu vs. usted, keigo in Japanese).
  • Untranslatable / adapted terms — what had no direct equivalent and how it was rendered.
  • Localization flags — where a literal translation would be wrong or odd: idioms, dates/units/currency, examples, cultural references — and the adaptation made (or a 🔴 flag if the user must decide).
  • Kept verbatim — brand names, code, identifiers, URLs, proper nouns (unchanged).
  • Ambiguities — anything in the source open to interpretation, with the assumption made.
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Quality Checks

  • Reads natural and idiomatic in the target language — not a literal word map
  • Register/formality matches the audience and is noted (esp. you/formality distinctions)
  • Brand names, code, identifiers, and URLs are kept unchanged
  • Idioms, units, dates, and cultural references are adapted (or flagged), not translated literally
  • Regional variant is respected where it matters
  • Genuine ambiguities are surfaced, not silently guessed

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not translate word-for-word — convey meaning and tone the way a native would phrase it
  • Do not ignore register — the wrong formality (over-familiar or stiff) can offend or undermine
  • Do not translate idioms literally — render the equivalent expression or the plain meaning
  • Do not translate brand/product/proper names or code — keep them verbatim
  • Do not silently resolve ambiguity — flag it; the author may mean something specific

Based On

Professional translation practice — meaning-based (not literal) translation, register matching, and the translation-vs-localization distinction.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Translate this document."
  • "Translate this email into Spanish."
  • "Improve this machine translation."
  • "Translate this keeping the tone."

© mohitagw15856, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/professional-translator of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Translation Diff ImportDevolutions/UniGetUI26k—~750Automated safety check: PassMIT
Translation Diff TranslateDevolutions/UniGetUI26k—~934Automated safety check: PassMIT
Generate Translationspayloadcms/payload45k—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Professional Translator

What does Professional Translator do?

Translate text professionally — preserving tone, register, and meaning, not word-for-word. Professional Translator is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Translate text professionally — preserving tone, register, and meaning, not word-for-word.

When should I use Professional Translator?

Professional Translator fits situations like: asked to translate a document; content between languages; improve a literal/machine translation.

How do I install Professional Translator in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill professional-translator -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/professional-translator in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/professional-translator in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Professional Translator in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill professional-translator -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/professional-translator in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/professional-translator in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Professional Translator 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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill professional-translator -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/professional-translator, .gemini/skills/professional-translator, .github/skills/professional-translator and .opencode/skills/professional-translator in your project.

What does Professional Translator need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Professional Translator is instructions for the agent only.

Does Professional Translator 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 Professional Translator 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 Professional Translator use?

Professional Translator is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Professional Translator use?

About 919 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Professional Translator?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Professional Translator: 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 Professional Translator?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.