translate-site
Installation
SKILL.md
Translate a Rosey Site with AI
Two translation systems can run on the same site, and this skill covers both:
| Part | What it holds | Section |
|---|---|---|
Rosey locale JSON (rosey/locales/{code}.json) |
Shared UI and any page text tagged with data-rosey — nav, footer, headings, buttons, breadcrumbs, and (for non-split pages) whole page bodies |
Part 1 |
Content collection files (blog_fr/, blog_de/ …) |
Split-by-directory body content + per-post frontmatter (title, description, alt text) that the SSG renders natively per locale | Part 2 |
Most sites only need Part 1. Only reach for Part 2 if the project actually has per-locale content directories (split-by-directory, set up in the make-site-multilingual skill, Phase 8). A split-by-directory page needs both: its body comes from a content collection file (Part 2), its shared UI from the locale JSON (Part 1).
This skill is written for AI coding agents, but the process works with any AI tool that reads and writes JSON.
When to use
- Locale files have untranslated entries (
valuestill equalsoriginal) - A source string changed and its translations are now stale
- A new locale needs bulk-translating from scratch
- Per-locale content directories (
blog_fr/,blog_de/) need their bodies and frontmatter translated