Agent skill

glot ships a portable skill in the open Agent Skills format: a glot/ folder with a SKILL.md (name + description frontmatter, instructions), scripts/glot.sh (runs glot, or npx -y glot-i18n when it is not installed) and references/ (command list, provenance). Agents load the description at startup and the instructions only when a task needs them: "make this app multilingual", "add a button label", "translate to German".

Source: integrations/skills/glot.

Install

# skills.sh: asks which agents to install for (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot…)
npx skills add MattJeff/glot --skill glot

glot init also writes a project-specific copy (your locales and catalogs) to .claude/skills/glot/ and to the shared .agents/skills/glot/.

By hand, copy the folder to the directory your agent reads:

Paths move between agent releases: check your agent's docs if the skill does not show up.

What the agent does with it

1. No glot.toml: asks which languages, then runs glot localize --yes --targets fr,de.
2. Existing project: glot localize --yes (init if needed → i18nize → translate → check → status). It is idempotent, so the agent reruns it after any UI change. --dry-run shows the plan and the cost first.
3. New UI text: propose_string + add_string through the MCP server, or glot add, then translate and check.
4. glot check must exit 0 before the agent says it is done.

App builders and other agents

Lovable, Bolt, v0 and similar builders do not load skills. Paste a prompt instead:

glot agent-prompt               # for a coding agent (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, a chat)
glot agent-prompt --for lovable # for an app builder: keep code translation-ready, translate outside
glot localize --print-agent-prompt

The prompt is generated from your stack (next-intl, react-i18next, react-intl, vue-i18n, Lingui, or none yet) and from glot.toml (source locale, targets, catalog paths).