Agent skill

Add Strings

by parawanderer in parawanderer/OpenTagViewer

Add or back-fill user-facing Android strings across all locales in OpenTagViewer.

Install Add Strings

skills CLI

$ npx skills add parawanderer/OpenTagViewer --skill add-strings -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install parawanderer/OpenTagViewer add-strings --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/parawanderer/OpenTagViewer.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/add-strings .claude/skills/add-strings && 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 "add-strings" agent skill from https://github.com/parawanderer/OpenTagViewer/tree/main/.claude/skills/add-strings into .claude/skills/add-strings/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "add-strings", 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/parawanderer/OpenTagViewer/tree/main/.claude/skills/add-strings

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 parawanderer/OpenTagViewer --skill add-strings -a codex

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

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install parawanderer/OpenTagViewer add-strings --agent codex

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

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/parawanderer/OpenTagViewer.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/add-strings .agents/skills/add-strings && 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 "add-strings" agent skill from https://github.com/parawanderer/OpenTagViewer/tree/main/.claude/skills/add-strings into .agents/skills/add-strings/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "add-strings", 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 parawanderer/OpenTagViewer --skill add-strings -a cursor

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

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install parawanderer/OpenTagViewer add-strings --agent cursor

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

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/parawanderer/OpenTagViewer.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/add-strings .cursor/skills/add-strings && 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 "add-strings" agent skill from https://github.com/parawanderer/OpenTagViewer/tree/main/.claude/skills/add-strings into .cursor/skills/add-strings/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "add-strings", 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/parawanderer/OpenTagViewer.git --path .claude/skills/add-strings

--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 parawanderer/OpenTagViewer --skill add-strings -a gemini-cli

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

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install parawanderer/OpenTagViewer add-strings --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/parawanderer/OpenTagViewer.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/add-strings .gemini/skills/add-strings && 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 "add-strings" agent skill from https://github.com/parawanderer/OpenTagViewer/tree/main/.claude/skills/add-strings into .gemini/skills/add-strings/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "add-strings", 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 parawanderer/OpenTagViewer add-strings

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 parawanderer/OpenTagViewer --skill add-strings -a github-copilot

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

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/parawanderer/OpenTagViewer.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/add-strings .github/skills/add-strings && 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 "add-strings" agent skill from https://github.com/parawanderer/OpenTagViewer/tree/main/.claude/skills/add-strings into .github/skills/add-strings/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "add-strings", 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 parawanderer/OpenTagViewer --skill add-strings -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 parawanderer/OpenTagViewer add-strings --agent opencode

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

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/parawanderer/OpenTagViewer.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/add-strings .opencode/skills/add-strings && 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 "add-strings" agent skill from https://github.com/parawanderer/OpenTagViewer/tree/main/.claude/skills/add-strings into .opencode/skills/add-strings/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "add-strings", 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: add-strings
GitHub stars: 418
Token cost: ~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length: 574 words
Files: 1
Skills in repo: 5
Repo updated: Sep 19, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: MIT

At a glance

Add or back-fill user-facing Android strings across all locales in OpenTagViewer.

Works in 4 steps: Find out which locales are required — do… → Write the JSON with the Write tool, one… → Apply, then confirm nothing drifted → …
Translating any string that appears in the UI
SKILL.md covers The rule that matters, Workflow, Flags and Removing and renaming, plus 3 more sections
Calls python and bash

What it does

Add Strings is an agent skill from parawanderer/OpenTagViewer. Add or back-fill user-facing Android strings across all locales in OpenTagViewer. Use whenever adding, renaming or translating any string that appears in the UI, or when checking translations are complete before a PR.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k 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. It works with Android. The repository describes itself as: Track your AirTags, iDevices and other FindMy devices on Android. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

Translating any string that appears in the UI
Checking translations are complete before a PR

Example prompts

“/add-strings”

Requirements

Python 3

Workflow steps

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

Find out which locales are required — do not assume, they are discovered from the tree
Write the JSON with the Write tool, one entry per string, every locale present
Apply, then confirm nothing drifted
Build. aapt is the real judge of whether the XML is acceptable

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 335b258. 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
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
- python
- 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

Add Strings loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 57 tokens; SKILL.md has 574 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~57
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~1.2k

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 parawanderer/OpenTagViewer at commit 335b258, republished under its MIT licence (© parawanderer). 574 words, ~1,174 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/add-strings/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).

name: add-strings
description: Add or back-fill user-facing Android strings across all locales in OpenTagViewer. Use whenever adding, renaming or translating any string that appears in the UI, or when checking translations are complete before a PR.

Adding user-facing strings

The app ships ten locales. A string missing from one silently falls back to English — nothing fails, and it looks correct in whichever language you happen to read. So every UI string has to land in every locale in one go.

The rule that matters

Never pass translations through a shell argument. Write a JSON file with the Write tool, then point the script at it. Passing non-ASCII text through bash -c, sed or a here-doc has corrupted it twice in this repo — a French apostrophe reached the screen as a literal \’. The Write tool does not go through shell quoting; a for loop does.

For the same reason, do not hand-edit ten strings.xml files with ten Edit calls unless the script cannot do what you need. It is slower and it is what the script exists to replace.

Workflow

Find out which locales are required — do not assume, they are discovered from the tree:
bash
```
python scripts/add_strings.py --locales
```

Write the JSON with the Write tool, one entry per string, every locale present:

json

{
  "how_do_i_get_the_zip": {
    "default": "How do I get the zip?",
    "en": "How do I get the zip?",
    "de": "Wie erhalte ich die ZIP-Datei?",
    "fr": "Comment obtenir l’archive zip ?",
    "nl": "Hoe kom ik aan de zip?",
    "ru": "Как получить zip-архив?",
    "ja": "zip ファイルの入手方法",
    "ko": "zip 파일은 어떻게 받나요?",
    "zh-rCN": "如何获取 zip 文件？",
    "zh-rTW": "如何取得 zip 檔案？"
  }
}

Put it in the scratchpad or tmp/, not in the repo root.

Apply, then confirm nothing drifted:

bash

python scripts/add_strings.py tmp/new_strings.json
python scripts/add_strings.py --check

Build. aapt is the real judge of whether the XML is acceptable:

bash

JAVA_HOME='C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio\jbr' ./gradlew.bat :app:assembleDebug

Flags

Command	What it does
`add_strings.py` (no args)	Prints full usage and the input format
`--locales`	Lists discovered locales and their files
`<file.json>`	Adds strings; errors if any locale is missing or the name already exists
`--fill <file.json>`	Adds only where missing — for back-filling what `--check` reported
`--show <name>...`	Prints existing strings in the input format, ready to edit
`--replace <file.json>`	Rewords strings that already exist; errors if one is not defined everywhere
`--remove <name>...`	Deletes strings from every locale; errors if a name exists nowhere
`--check`	Fails if any locale lacks a string the default locale has. Run before a PR

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Removing and renaming

Do not hand-delete a string from ten files, for the same reason you do not hand-add one:

bash

python scripts/add_strings.py --remove old_name

Renaming is --remove then an ordinary add. Nothing updates references — if a layout or menu still points at a removed string, aapt fails the build, which is how you want to find out.

Rewording something that already exists is --show piped into a file, edited, then --replace. That refuses unless the string is defined in every locale, so a typo in the name fails instead of quietly doing nothing.

Translating

Translate properly rather than leaving English in place; the existing files are fully translated and a stray English string is conspicuous. Points that have come up here:

French uses a space before :, ? and !, and reads better with ’ than '
CJK wants the full-width colon ： and, for a gap, the ideographic space 　
Keep positional format specifiers (%1$d, %2$s) intact and in a natural order for the language — they may be reordered, which is the point of the positional form
Product names (Google Maps, AMap, Anisette) generally stay as they are

What the script already handles

Do not do these by hand:

Escaping ', " and & as Android requires
Preserving <u>, <b>, <i> so emphasis survives — styling that belongs to the copy belongs in the resource, not in a paint flag in code that would only ever apply to English
Re-parsing each file after writing, so a bad write fails immediately instead of at aapt time
translatable="false" — set "translatable": false and supply only "default"

AGENTS.md documents this generically for any agent. Keep the two in step if the tool changes.

Files

Just SKILL.md in .claude/skills/add-strings of parawanderer/OpenTagViewer.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 335b258

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Questions about Add Strings

What does Add Strings do?

Add or back-fill user-facing Android strings across all locales in OpenTagViewer. Add Strings is an agent skill from parawanderer/OpenTagViewer. Add or back-fill user-facing Android strings across all locales in OpenTagViewer.

When should I use Add Strings?

Add Strings fits situations like: translating any string that appears in the UI; checking translations are complete before a PR.

How do I install Add Strings in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Add Strings in Codex?

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

Can I use Add Strings 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 parawanderer/OpenTagViewer --skill add-strings -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/add-strings, .gemini/skills/add-strings, .github/skills/add-strings and .opencode/skills/add-strings in your project.

What does Add Strings need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Add Strings needs the command-line tools its instructions call (python and bash). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Add Strings 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 Add Strings 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 Add Strings use?

Add Strings 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 Add Strings use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.7k 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 Add Strings?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Add Strings: Qmd (XRSec/Screen-Remote, 183 stars), Translate Android Locale (Codename-11/hermes-relay, 314 stars), Cometchat Android V6 Extensions (cometchat/cometchat-skills, 130 stars) and Fluent Migration (BrowserWorks/waterfox-android, 379 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Add Strings?

parawanderer (a GitHub user) maintains it in parawanderer/OpenTagViewer, which has 418 GitHub stars. The repository holds 5 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 19, 2026.

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

Add Strings

Install Add Strings

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Requirements

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

Adding user-facing strings

The rule that matters

Workflow

Flags

Removing and renaming

Translating

What the script already handles

Files

Compare with similar skills

Similar skills

Qmd

Translate Android Locale

Cometchat Android V6 Extensions

Fluent Migration

Dpis Localization

Cometchat Android V6 Features

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Questions about Add Strings

Install Add Strings

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Requirements

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

Adding user-facing strings

The rule that matters

Workflow

Flags

Removing and renaming

Translating

What the script already handles

Related

Files

Compare with similar skills

Similar skills

More from parawanderer/OpenTagViewer

Related

Questions about Add Strings