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Baoyu Translate

A three-mode translation skill (quick / normal / refined) with glossary merging, markdown chunking and a publication-quality review pipeline.

Content & WritingIntermediate★ 24,749⑂ 2,764AI score 8/10Last updated: Jul 4, 2026

What it does

Instead of literal machine translation, this skill aims to rewrite content so it reads as if a skilled native writer had composed it from scratch. Three modes:

  • quick – straight translation for short or informal text
  • normal (default) – analyze, then translate; good for articles and blog posts
  • refined – analyze → draft → critique → revise → polish for publication quality

Key capabilities:

  • Glossary merging with a clear precedence chain: built-in EN→ZH glossary, inline glossary in EXTEND.md, external glossary files, and a CLI-supplied file that overrides everything.
  • Long-document chunking: past ~4,000 words the source is split at markdown block boundaries, one subagent per chunk translates in parallel, and results are merged in order. A shared 02-prompt.md keeps terminology and voice consistent.
  • Auditable intermediates: 01-analysis.md, 02-prompt.md, 03-draft.md, 04-critique.md, 05-revision.md, plus the final translation.md in a dedicated output folder.
  • Nine style presets (storytelling, formal, technical, literal, academic, business, humorous, conversational, elegant) and four audience presets, plus free-form descriptions.
  • Image localization reminder: after translating, it flags covers, diagrams and screenshots that likely still carry source-language text — as a list only, never auto-editing.
  • Persistent preferences via EXTEND.md discovered at project, XDG or home scope; if none exists, a blocking first-run setup creates one.

Who it's for

  • Newsletter writers and bloggers who regularly localize foreign tech articles
  • Technical writers maintaining multilingual docs where terminology consistency matters
  • Translators and editors who want the review/polish pass automated, not just the draft
  • Anyone whose long-document translations drift in terminology halfway through

Examples

  1. Publication-quality long read: "Translate this URL into Chinese, refined mode" → source is saved, analyzed, chunked, drafted in parallel, then critiqued, revised and polished into translation.md.
  2. House style glossary: define agent, prompt, product names in EXTEND.md once and every future translation applies them automatically.
  3. Upgrade an existing draft: after a normal-mode run, reply "refine" and the skill continues with critique → revision → polish on the file it already produced.

· · · Install guide · · ·

Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
↓ Download ZIP
Install in Claude Code

Let Claude do it — paste this into Claude Code

Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the skills/baoyu-translate folder from the GitHub repo JimLiu/baoyu-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/baoyu-translate/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/JimLiu/baoyu-skills.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r baoyu-skills/skills/baoyu-translate ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Check prerequisites: run bun --version or npx --version — one of them is required for the chunking script. If neither works, install Node.js or run curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash.
  2. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/JimLiu/baoyu-skills.git
  3. Copy the skill: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r baoyu-skills/skills/baoyu-translate ~/.claude/skills/
  4. Verify: ls ~/.claude/skills/baoyu-translate should show SKILL.md, scripts/ and references/.
  5. Restart Claude Code, then say something like "translate this article to Chinese" or "精翻" to trigger the skill.
  6. Complete first-run setup: you'll be asked for target language, mode, audience, style and where to save preferences; an EXTEND.md file is created that you can edit later to add glossaries.
  7. Find your output: a {source-name}-{target-lang}/ folder appears next to the source file, with the final text in translation.md.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT