Localize Triggers

Localize Skill Triggers

Adds trigger phrasings in the user's language to this plugin's skills so they auto-trigger on those phrasings. Skill bodies and descriptions stay in English; only the when_to_use frontmatter field changes.

Scope — which skills this affects

Only skills WITHOUT disable-model-invocation: true benefit: for those, description + when_to_use sit in the model's context and drive auto-triggering. For user-invoked commands (disable-model-invocation: true) the description is never in context, so localization has no effect on triggering — skip them and tell the user why.

On Invocation

If $ARGUMENTS is provided, treat it as the target language. Otherwise ask the user which language to localize into.

Workflow

1. List this plugin's skills: read every SKILL.md under ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../ (the parent of this skill's directory is the plugin's skills/ directory). Skip this skill itself
2. Partition them: skills with disable-model-invocation: true are out of scope — list them as skipped in the final report, with the reason from the Scope section
3. For each in-scope skill, build its when_to_use value:
   • Keep description untouched — it is the canonical English definition
   • Write natural trigger phrasings in the target language, quoted — the phrases a native speaker would actually type when asking for this (e.g. for Japanese on agent-teams: 「エージェントチームで手分けして」「サブエージェントで並列に」)
   • If when_to_use already exists, REPLACE the entry for the target language and keep other languages' entries — never append duplicates. Re-running with the same language must produce the same result (idempotent)
4. Show the user a before/after comparison of each when_to_use and get approval
5. Apply the edits
6. Tell the user to run /reload-plugins (or restart Claude Code) so the changes take effect — plugin skills are not live-reloaded

Constraints

• Edit only the when_to_use field. Never change name, description, other frontmatter fields, or the body
• Phrasings must be realistic user requests in that language, not literal translations of the English description
• Keep description + when_to_use combined under 1,536 characters per skill (the skill listing truncates beyond that)

After a Plugin Update

Plugin updates overwrite these local edits (the plugin install directory is ephemeral by design). Re-run /core-nexus:localize-triggers [language] after updating the plugin to restore the localization.