zh-en-relay

ZH-EN Relay Skills

ZH-EN Relay Skills helps Chinese-speaking users work with AI coding agents through a lightweight translation relay:

1. Complex Chinese user requests are converted into faithful, executable English prompts.
2. The main agent performs the actual coding, debugging, planning, research, or documentation task.
3. The final answer is translated back into natural Chinese.

The relay is intentionally narrow. It does not plan, edit files, run commands, research, or validate work during translation. It only carries the user's request and the final answer across Chinese and English.

What It Is For

Use this when you usually prompt coding agents in Chinese but want the task prompt seen by the main model to be clearer in English.

It is designed for:

• Claude Code
• Codex
• Cursor
• Other AI coding assistants that understand Agent Skills-style SKILL.md files

It works best for complex Chinese requests, including code changes, debugging, architecture, planning, reviews, research, long documents, and tasks involving files, paths, commands, code, logs, APIs, configs, schemas, packages, or tools.

It should be skipped for greetings, short confirmations, simple status checks, tiny clarifications, purely English requests, or when you explicitly want English output.

Quick Start

Universal AI Assistant Method

Send this prompt to your AI assistant, such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or another coding agent:

Help me install ZH-EN Relay Skills from https://github.com/AzumaSeren/zh-en-relay-skills with Skills.

The assistant should copy or install the skill from this repository into its global or project-level skills directory.

For comparison, the same pattern works for other skill repositories:

Help me install Supervisor-Skills from https://github.com/HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills with Skills.

Claude Code Plugin Method

In Claude Code, add this repository as a plugin marketplace and install the plugin:

/plugin marketplace add AzumaSeren/zh-en-relay-skills
/plugin install zh-en-relay@zh-en-relay-skills

After installation, restart Claude Code or run:

/reload-plugins

The plugin provides:

• Skill: /zh-en-relay:zh-en-relay
• Agents:
  • zh-to-en-prompt-relay
  • en-to-zh-output-relay

Future npx skills add Method

When your environment supports npx skills add, installation can be exposed with a command like:

npx skills add https://github.com/AzumaSeren/zh-en-relay-skills

This repository is structured so a future Skills installer can discover the SKILL.md content and related agent files.

Repository Layout

.
├── .claude-plugin/
│   └── marketplace.json
├── plugins/
│   └── zh-en-relay/
│       ├── .claude-plugin/
│       │   └── plugin.json
│       ├── agents/
│       │   ├── en-to-zh-output-relay.md
│       │   └── zh-to-en-prompt-relay.md
│       └── skills/
│           └── zh-en-relay/
│               ├── SKILL.md
│               └── agents/
│                   └── openai.yaml
└── snippets/
    ├── claude-CLAUDE.md
    └── codex-AGENTS.md

Manual Installation

Codex

Copy plugins/zh-en-relay/skills/zh-en-relay to:

%USERPROFILE%\.codex\skills\zh-en-relay

Then append snippets/codex-AGENTS.md to:

%USERPROFILE%\.codex\AGENTS.md

Claude Code

Copy plugins/zh-en-relay/skills/zh-en-relay to:

%USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\zh-en-relay

Copy the two files in plugins/zh-en-relay/agents to:

%USERPROFILE%\.claude\agents

Then append snippets/claude-CLAUDE.md to:

%USERPROFILE%\.claude\CLAUDE.md

Behavior Contract

• The original Chinese request remains the source of truth.
• The English relay prompt must not add, remove, or reinterpret user constraints.
• The final Chinese answer should preserve code blocks, commands, paths, filenames, identifiers, API names, config keys, package names, log lines, URLs, and quoted source text exactly.
• The intermediate English prompt should stay hidden unless the user asks to see it.

References

• Claude Code plugin structure: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugins
• Claude Code plugin reference: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugins-reference
• Claude Code plugin marketplaces: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugin-marketplaces