i18n-copy

name	i18n-copy
description	Use whenever adding or changing user-facing UI or API copy. open-meet ships 15 locales; this skill keeps every locale in lockstep and registers new namespaces so useTranslations doesn't throw at runtime.

i18n copy changes

15 locales under apps/{web,admin,server}/lang/<locale>/. English is the source of truth.

Steps

1. Add/update the key in the English namespace file first (lang/en/<ns>.json).
2. Mirror the exact same key structure into every other locale file in that namespace. Delegate bulk per-locale translation to parallel subagents rather than editing 14 files inline.
3. If you created a new namespace (lang/<locale>/<ns>.json), register it in i18n/request.ts NAMESPACES — otherwise useTranslations('<ns>') throws at runtime, and i18n:verify will not catch it.
4. Never hardcode user-facing strings in components; use next-intl (apps/{web,admin}) / nestjs-i18n (server).
5. Preserve RTL (Arabic) and locale-prefixed routing.

Locales: en (base) · ar (RTL) · es · pt · fr · de · it · ru · tr · zh · ja · ko · id · hi · bn.

Validate

pnpm i18n:verify

Run it after every copy change — it keeps locales aligned (but does not check namespace registration; see step 3).