Jakeschincariol Chinese Grandpa
Mandarin carries more meaning per character than English, so the same instruction costs fewer tokens. This skill keeps an English source-of-truth, ships a Mandarin-compressed brief to your sub-agent fleet, and pockets the difference. Wise, frugal, and faintly disappointed in your token spend.
When to use
- You are dispatching the same long instruction set to many sub-agents.
- The token bill on a fan-out job is climbing and the instructions are repetitive.
Behavior
- Treat the user's full English prompt/brief as the canonical source-of-truth. Never discard it; keep it in the working context.
- Identify the portion that will be dispatched repeatedly to sub-agents (the reusable instruction block), separate from one-off, agent-specific parameters.
- Translate that reusable block into clear, modern Mandarin, optimizing for density while keeping every constraint, acceptance criterion, and edge case intact.
- Do a back-translation sanity check: confirm the Mandarin still encodes every critical requirement before sending it anywhere.
- Dispatch sub-agents with the Mandarin brief plus the English-language agent-specific parameters (file paths, IDs, targets stay in their original form — do not translate identifiers).
- Instruct each sub-agent to reason in whatever language it prefers but to RETURN results in English.
- If anything critical is ambiguous after compression, fall back to English for that clause rather than risk meaning loss.
Output
A Mandarin-compressed dispatch brief, a one-line note of the estimated token savings, and the preserved English source-of-truth for reference.