Agent skill

Po Translate

Orchestrate English→Japanese translation of po/ja.po — classify, delegate translation/review to subagents, iterate until clean

CC0-1.0Auto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Po Translate

skills CLI

$ npx skills add natsukium/dotfiles --skill po-translate -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install natsukium/dotfiles po-translate --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/natsukium/dotfiles.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/po-translate .claude/skills/po-translate && 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/

Paste into Claude Code

Install the "po-translate" agent skill from https://github.com/natsukium/dotfiles/tree/main/.claude/skills/po-translate into .claude/skills/po-translate/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "po-translate", 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

$skill-installer install https://github.com/natsukium/dotfiles/tree/main/.claude/skills/po-translate

Type 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.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add natsukium/dotfiles --skill po-translate -a codex

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install natsukium/dotfiles po-translate --agent codex

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/natsukium/dotfiles.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/po-translate .agents/skills/po-translate && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.

Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/

Paste into Codex

Install the "po-translate" agent skill from https://github.com/natsukium/dotfiles/tree/main/.claude/skills/po-translate into .agents/skills/po-translate/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "po-translate", 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.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add natsukium/dotfiles --skill po-translate -a cursor

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install natsukium/dotfiles po-translate --agent cursor

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/natsukium/dotfiles.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/po-translate .cursor/skills/po-translate && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.

Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/

Paste into Cursor

Install the "po-translate" agent skill from https://github.com/natsukium/dotfiles/tree/main/.claude/skills/po-translate into .cursor/skills/po-translate/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "po-translate", 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

$ gemini skills install https://github.com/natsukium/dotfiles.git --path .claude/skills/po-translate

--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add natsukium/dotfiles --skill po-translate -a gemini-cli

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install natsukium/dotfiles po-translate --agent gemini-cli

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/natsukium/dotfiles.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/po-translate .gemini/skills/po-translate && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.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/

Paste into Gemini CLI

Install the "po-translate" agent skill from https://github.com/natsukium/dotfiles/tree/main/.claude/skills/po-translate into .gemini/skills/po-translate/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "po-translate", 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.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install natsukium/dotfiles po-translate

Installs 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).

skills CLI

$ npx skills add natsukium/dotfiles --skill po-translate -a github-copilot

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/natsukium/dotfiles.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/po-translate .github/skills/po-translate && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.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/

Paste into GitHub Copilot

Install the "po-translate" agent skill from https://github.com/natsukium/dotfiles/tree/main/.claude/skills/po-translate into .github/skills/po-translate/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "po-translate", 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.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add natsukium/dotfiles --skill po-translate -a opencode

OpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install natsukium/dotfiles po-translate --agent opencode

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/natsukium/dotfiles.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/po-translate .opencode/skills/po-translate && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.

OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into OpenCode

Install the "po-translate" agent skill from https://github.com/natsukium/dotfiles/tree/main/.claude/skills/po-translate into .opencode/skills/po-translate/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "po-translate", 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: po-translate
GitHub stars: 106
Token cost: ~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length: 457 words
Files: 4 (incl. references)
Skills in repo: 10
Repo updated: Oct 10, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: CC0-1.0

At a glance

Orchestrate English→Japanese translation of po/ja.po — classify, delegate translation/review to subagents, iterate until clean

Works in 4 steps: Classify (do this yourself) → Translate (delegate to subagents) → Review (delegate to subagent) → …
Tasks that involve Translation
SKILL.md covers Phase 1: Classify (do this…, Phase 2: Translate (delegate…, Phase 3: Review (delegate to… and Phase 4: Iterate (do this…, plus 1 more section
Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Po Translate is an agent skill from natsukium/dotfiles. Orchestrate English→Japanese translation of po/ja.po — classify, delegate translation/review to subagents, iterate until clean

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 4 other files, including reference files (for example `references/glossary.md`, `references/po-format.md` and `references/style-guide.md`).

It sits in Writing & Content, covering Translation and Subagents. The repository describes itself as: Nix dotfiles for NixOS, Darwin and WSL. The licence is CC0-1.0.

When your agent uses it

Tasks that involve Translation
Tasks that involve Subagents

Example prompts

“/po-translate”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

Classify (do this yourself)
Translate (delegate to subagents)
Review (delegate to subagent)
Iterate (do this yourself)

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 31561dd. 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 (its code samples are bash).
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

Po Translate loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs, and up to ~5.8k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 35 tokens; SKILL.md has 457 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~35
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~1.4k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them: ~5.8k

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 natsukium/dotfiles at commit 31561dd, republished under its CC0-1.0 licence (© natsukium). 457 words, ~1,442 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/po-translate/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 3 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.

name: po-translate
description: Orchestrate English→Japanese translation of po/ja.po — classify, delegate translation/review to subagents, iterate until clean

PO Translation Orchestrator

Translate po/ja.po from English to Japanese for this literate Nix configuration repository. This skill orchestrates the process: you classify entries yourself, then delegate translation and review to subagents, iterating until the review passes.

Phase 1: Classify (do this yourself)

Scan po/ja.po and classify every entry into three buckets.

Skip (leave msgstr empty)

PO type comment (`#. type:`)	Reason
`paragraph in src`	Code block content
`keyword NAME` / `keyword name`	Source block identifiers
`keyword SETUPFILE`	Org directive
`keyword PROPERTY`	Property drawer value
`keyword OPTIONS`	Export option string
`keyword STARTUP`	Startup keyword
`keyword INCLUDE`	po4a handles path swap
`property (*)`	Property values

Also skip: bare URLs as msgid, table cells with hardware models/hostnames/platforms.

Already Translated

Non-empty msgstr — leave unchanged unless review flags them.

Translate

Everything else: paragraph, heading *–*****, plain list, paragraph in QUOTE/quote/example, cell column N with prose, keyword title.

Grouping

Group translatable entries by primary source file into sequential batches:

configuration.org
applications/emacs/init.org
overlays/configuration.org + applications/emacs/early-init.org + .github/README.org
modules/configuration.org

Output a batch summary (entry counts, line ranges) before proceeding to Phase 2.

Phase 2: Translate (delegate to subagents)

Spawn one Agent per batch, sequentially (wait for each to finish before starting the next — they all edit the same file).

Subagent prompt template

Include ALL of the following in each subagent's prompt:

The batch assignment: line range, list of msgid start lines to translate
The full content of these reference files (read them yourself first, then paste the content into the prompt — subagents cannot read skill reference files by path):
- .claude/skills/po-translate/references/glossary.md
- .claude/skills/po-translate/references/style-guide.md
- .claude/skills/po-translate/references/po-format.md
These rules:

## Translation Rules

### What to translate
- paragraph, heading, plain list, paragraph in QUOTE/quote/example, cell with prose, keyword title

### What to leave empty (msgstr "")
- paragraph in src, keyword NAME/name, SETUPFILE/PROPERTY/OPTIONS/STARTUP/INCLUDE, property (*), bare URLs, proper nouns (hardware models, hostnames, platforms)

### PO format
- #, no-wrap entries: msgstr on single line
- Multi-line msgid: msgstr starts with "" then continuation lines
- Match approximate line structure of msgid
- Preserve \" escaping

### Org markup preservation
- [[url][desc]]: translate only desc, keep URL intact
- [[*heading][desc]]: translate *heading to match the translated heading name in po/ja.po, translate desc independently
- =code= and ~verbatim~: do NOT translate content inside markers
- *bold* / /italic/: translate text, keep markers
- \\\\: preserve in same position

### Terminology
- Follow the glossary strictly
- Nix terms (flake, derivation, overlay, home-manager) → keep English
- General technical terms with Japanese equivalents → use Japanese

### Register
- です/ます (desu/masu) polite form consistently
- Technical but accessible
- Faithfully translate "why" reasoning — core value of literate config

### Important
- Never modify msgid or comment lines (#., #:, #,)
- If entry already has correct translation, leave unchanged
- Preserve blank lines between entries
- Use the Edit tool for each translation
- After completing, read back modified sections to verify

Phase 3: Review (delegate to subagent)

After all translation batches complete, spawn a review subagent.

Show full SKILL.md (185 more words)Show less

Review subagent prompt

Include these checks in the prompt:

PO Syntax: Run msgfmt --check po/ja.po
Code blocks empty: Verify paragraph in src, keyword NAME/name, directive keywords, property (*) all have empty msgstr
Prose translated: Verify paragraph, heading, plain list etc. have non-empty msgstr
No-wrap compliance: #, no-wrap entries have single-line msgstr
Terminology: No "フレーク"/"デリベーション"/"オーバーレイ" (should stay English); "configuration"→"設定", "declarative"→"宣言的" consistently
Markup: [[/]] count matches, URLs unchanged, =code=/~verbatim~ preserved
Internal links: [[*heading][desc]] — verify *heading matches the translated heading name in the corresponding heading entry's msgstr
Register: Sample entries for consistent です/ます form
Japanese prose norms: No em dash or 中黒-enumeration introduced in msgstr; no LLM-ish filler (「重要なのは」「掘り下げる」etc. — see style-guide.md); hedging level matches the English msgid

The review subagent should:

Fix minor issues (structural/terminology) directly
Report translation quality issues with line numbers
Re-run msgfmt --check po/ja.po after fixes

Phase 4: Iterate (do this yourself)

Evaluate the review subagent's report:

If PASS on all checks → done
If issues remain → spawn targeted translation subagents to fix only the flagged entries, then re-run review (Phase 3)
Repeat until clean

Final Validation

After review passes:

msgfmt --check po/ja.po
po4a po4a.cfg

Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files (references) in .claude/skills/po-translate of natsukium/dotfiles.

SKILL.md
references/glossary.md
references/po-format.md
references/style-guide.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 31561dd

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Questions about Po Translate

What does Po Translate do?

Orchestrate English→Japanese translation of po/ja.po — classify, delegate translation/review to subagents, iterate until clean. Po Translate is an agent skill from natsukium/dotfiles.

When should I use Po Translate?

Po Translate fits situations like: tasks that involve Translation; tasks that involve Subagents.

How do I install Po Translate in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add natsukium/dotfiles --skill po-translate -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/po-translate in natsukium/dotfiles) into .claude/skills/po-translate in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Po Translate in Codex?

Run `npx skills add natsukium/dotfiles --skill po-translate -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/po-translate in natsukium/dotfiles) into .agents/skills/po-translate in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Po Translate 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 natsukium/dotfiles --skill po-translate -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/po-translate, .gemini/skills/po-translate, .github/skills/po-translate and .opencode/skills/po-translate in your project.

What does Po Translate need to run?

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

Does Po Translate 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 Po Translate 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 Po Translate use?

Po Translate is published under the CC0-1.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Po Translate 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 4.3k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Po Translate?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Po Translate: Benchmark Translate (shapeshift/web, 206 stars), Translate (forthecraft/drf-auth-kit, 121 stars), Docs Lead (lablup/backend.ai-webui, 133 stars) and Translate Book (deusyu/translate-book, 2.1k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Po Translate?

natsukium (a GitHub user) maintains it in natsukium/dotfiles, which has 106 GitHub stars. The repository holds 10 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

Source: natsukium/dotfiles on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.

Install Po Translate

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

PO Translation Orchestrator

Phase 1: Classify (do this yourself)

Skip (leave msgstr empty)

Already Translated

Translate

Grouping

Phase 2: Translate (delegate to subagents)

Subagent prompt template

Phase 3: Review (delegate to subagent)

Review subagent prompt

Phase 4: Iterate (do this yourself)

Final Validation

Files

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