localization-readiness

name	localization-readiness
description	Prepare source product/content material for localization by removing ambiguous context, hard-coded assumptions, unsafe concatenation, and untranslatable constraints.

Localization Readiness

Use when this procedure is the primary professional method needed for the assignment.

Procedure

1. Confirm the decision or outcome this work must support, its scope, owner, constraints, and definition of success.
2. Establish the evidence baseline using string catalog, UI layouts, source copy, code patterns, assets, and target locales. Do not fill material gaps with assumptions when they can change the result.
3. Inventory strings/assets, identify variables/plurals/gender/context, flag embedded text and fixed layouts, define locale metadata, and create developer/content fixes.
4. Exercise realistic edge, failure, transition, or exception cases that could invalidate the result; record unresolved uncertainty explicitly.
5. Validate the output against the original outcome and any neighboring professional contracts so this skill does not silently absorb another specialist's authority.
6. Record the resulting artifact, measurements, decisions, provenance, and handoff information needed for another owner to reproduce or continue the work.

Quality gate

Translators receive complete context and the product can accommodate realistic expansion and locale rules.