translate-chapterlisted

# Skill: translate-chapter **What it does.** Translates one chapter into a target-language edition, obeying `translations/{locale}/localization.md`. **Context-expensive by design**, for the same reason as `draft-scene`: prose born inside the voice, not prose cleaned afterwards. **Triggers** - "translate chapter 01.03 to English" - "/translate-chapter en-US 01.03" - "produce the French version of chapter X" - Equivalent phrasing in the project's output language **Input.** A target locale and a chapter id. **Output.** Two files in `translations/{locale}/manuscript/`, resolved through `paths.layout`: | File | Language | Purpose | |---|---|---| | `{chapter}.md` | target | the prose | | `{chapter}_report.md` | **output language** | **the primary deliverable** — what the author actually rules on | **Read `.project/templates/localization.md` before starting.** --- ## Core principle > **The book's rules outrank the source sentence.** This is transcreation, not translation. Where a faithful rendering of the source sentence would break a rule the book imposes on itself, the rule wins and the sentence is rebuilt. The target edition obeys the same law as the source — not the same syntax. **And the principle that follows from who reads the output:** > **When the author cannot judge the target language, the report is the deliverable and the prose is the attachment.** An author who reads functional English but not literary English cannot rule on "does this sound native". They c