cmux Localization
Use this skill for any user-facing string change.
Hard rules
- All user-facing strings must be localized.
- Use
String(localized: "key.name", defaultValue: "English text")for Swift/AppKit/SwiftUI strings. - Keys go in
Resources/Localizable.xcstringswith translations for all supported languages, currently English and Japanese. - Never use bare string literals in SwiftUI
Text(),Button(), alert titles, tooltips, menus, or dialogs. - Localization audit is required for every user-facing change.
defaultValue, English fallback text, schema descriptions, or copied English strings do not count as localization.- For localized web/docs content, update every supported message catalog, currently
web/messages/en.jsonandweb/messages/ja.json, plus any localized data structures carrying inline translations.
Audit checklist
Before finishing a task that changes UI, Settings rows, menus, shortcut metadata, schema/config text, docs, command/help text, alerts, or tooltips:
- Enumerate the changed user-facing surfaces.
- Verify each surface has entries for every supported locale.
- Parse touched localization files.
- Compare changed message keys across locales.
- Use
rgover changed Swift/TS/TSX/docs files for newly introduced bare English. - State the localization audit in the final handoff, or explicitly say what could not be verified.
Related shortcut rule
Every new cmux-owned keyboard shortcut must be added to KeyboardShortcutSettings, visible/editable in Settings, supported in ~/.config/cmux/cmux.json, and documented in the keyboard shortcut and configuration docs.
Detailed reference
- Read references/audit-workflow.md for a deeper audit process, common false positives, and examples of surfaces that count as user-facing.
