Turns an English-only ways install into a localized one (ADR-139). English is the source of truth; a localization is a derivation, validated against the English root. This skill is the operator-facing orchestrator for the lifecycle in docs/explanation/localization/ (scenario 01.011.E) — interview, consent, translate, tune, switch. The mechanics live in the design note docs/design-notes/adopter-localization-lifecycle-and-tuning.md; don't restate them.
ROOT="${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude}"
# Verify this is the agent-ways checkout before doing anything.
[ -f "$ROOT/tools/ways-cli/languages.json" ] || { echo "Not an agent-ways install: $ROOT"; exit 1; }Ways Localize is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the ai-tooling sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/ways-localize/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when the operator asks to run ways in their language ("set up ways in Spanish", "localiza ways al español", "ways auf Deutsch"). Not for authoring or editing individual ways (that is the ways skill), not for English installs (already built), and not for changing Claude Code's language alone (that is a settings.
The Ways Localize Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 156,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/ways-localize curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/ways-localize/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/ways-localize/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/ways-localize/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/ways-localize/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\ways-localize\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/ways-localize/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Ways Localize is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the General category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{ways-localize-2026,
author = {aaronsb},
title = {Ways Localize [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/ways-localize/}
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