review-translationlisted

# Skill: review-translation **What it does.** Audits `translations/{locale}/manuscript/{chapter}.md` against the source, the contract, and the target language itself. Closes the loop `translate-chapter` opens. **Triggers** - "review the English translation of 01.03" - "/review-translation en-US 01.03" - "is this translation still current" - Equivalent phrasing in the project's output language **Input.** A target locale and a chapter id. **Output.** `{chapter}_report.md` gains a **Review** section, and `status.md` is updated. **In the project's output language.** **Read `.project/templates/localization.md` before starting.** --- ## Core principle > **The author cannot check this work, so the verification has to be structural.** Everything else in p10t rests on the author reading the output and ruling on it. Here that assumption fails: an author with functional but not literary command of the target language cannot tell a faithful sentence from a plausible one, or native rhythm from translated rhythm. So this skill does not ask the author to judge the prose. It produces **evidence about the prose, in a language they command** — and it states, without softening, what it could not verify. --- ## Hard rules 1. **Never rewrite.** This skill reports. Fixes are a second `translate-chapter` pass or the author's own hand. 2. **Never clear the native gate.** Only a named human reader clears it. The skill records the state; it does not grant it. 3. **Never touch the source.*