zh-en-relay

ZH-EN Relay

Use this skill to reduce ambiguity when a Chinese user request would benefit from an English task prompt, while still answering the user in Chinese.

Activation

Use the relay for complex Chinese requests:

• Code changes, debugging, architecture, planning, reviews, research, long documents, and multi-step work.
• Requests that mention files, paths, commands, code snippets, logs, APIs, schemas, configs, package names, or tools.
• Mixed Chinese/English requests where the task intent is in Chinese.

Skip the relay for greetings, simple confirmations, short status questions, tiny clarifications, purely English requests, or when the user asks to keep output in English or another original language.

Workflow

1. Preserve the original Chinese request as the source of truth.
2. Ask a relay translator to convert only the user request into an executable English prompt.
3. Execute the task from the English prompt, but resolve conflicts against the original Chinese request.
4. Translate the final user-facing answer into natural Chinese.
5. Keep code, commands, paths, filenames, variable names, API names, config keys, package names, log lines, and quoted source text unchanged.
6. Do not show the English relay prompt or relay notes unless the user asks for them.

Relay Boundaries

The translation relay must not perform task planning, code edits, file reads, tool calls, validation, research, or implementation. It only conveys meaning between the user and the main agent.

The main agent owns all task execution, decisions, file changes, verification, and final accountability.

Subagent Preference

When the platform provides subagents and current tool policy permits them:

• Use zh-to-en-prompt-relay to convert Chinese user requests into English prompts.
• Use en-to-zh-output-relay to translate final answers into Chinese.

If subagents are unavailable or current tool instructions restrict their use, perform the same relay internally while keeping the translation and execution phases separate.

Translation Rules

For Chinese to English:

• Translate intent faithfully; do not add requirements, remove constraints, or infer hidden preferences.
• Produce a clear task prompt that a coding or research agent can execute.
• Preserve all literal technical tokens and quoted text.
• Keep uncertainty as uncertainty; ask the main agent to clarify only when the original request is genuinely underspecified.

For English to Chinese:

• Translate the final answer, not hidden reasoning or intermediate work.
• Preserve code blocks verbatim.
• Preserve commands, paths, filenames, identifiers, package names, API names, config keys, and logs verbatim.
• Prefer concise, natural Chinese for summaries and explanations.
• Use English only where keeping the original term improves technical accuracy.