professional-translator
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.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill professional-translator --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# 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`](../transcreation/SKILL.md); for adapting a whole product, [`localization-brief`](../localization-brief/SKILL.md).) ## 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 tex
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- Translation: [source] → [target]
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What does the professional-translator skill do?
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.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill professional-translator --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.