What do I need to use Professional Translator?

The text; Register / audience; Context; Glossary / do-not-translate terms.

Is Professional Translator free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Professional Translator

Q: How do I know the Professional Translator output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Reads natural and idiomatic in the target language — not a literal word map; Register/formality matches the audience and is noted (esp. you/formality distinctions); Brand names, code, identifiers, and URLs are kept unchanged; Idioms, units, dates, and cultural references are adapted (or flagged), not translated literally.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-10-06 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-localization

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.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft ⬇ Add to Claude (works in Duet) 📱 Use as an app View SKILL.md ↗ What changed

🗣 Say this to your agent

“Translate this document.”“Translate this email into Spanish.”“Improve this machine translation.”“Translate this keeping the tone.”

What to give it

▸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.

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓Reads natural and idiomatic in the target language — not a literal word map

✓Register/formality matches the audience and is noted (esp. you/formality distinctions)

✓Brand names, code, identifiers, and URLs are kept unchanged

✓Idioms, units, dates, and cultural references are adapted (or flagged), not translated literally

✓Regional variant is respected where it matters

✓Genuine ambiguities are surfaced, not silently guessed

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not translate word-for-word — convey meaning and tone the way a native would phrase it

Do not ignore register — the wrong formality (over-familiar or stiff) can offend or undermine

Do not translate idioms literally — render the equivalent expression or the plain meaning

Do not translate brand/product/proper names or code — keep them verbatim

Do not silently resolve ambiguity — flag it; the author may mean something specific

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y -p pm-claude-skills pm-claude-skills-mcp

Related skills

🔌 Embed this skill

Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:

<div data-pm-skill="professional-translator"></div>
<script src="https://mohitagw15856.github.io/pm-claude-skills/embed.js" async></script>

💬 Discussion

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