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translations is agent-read markdown (skill) from mendixlabs/mxcli: Translate a Mendix app's user-visible strings with MDL — DESCRIBE TRANSLATIONS to export one file per language, CREATE [OR MODIFY|REPLACE] TRANSLATIONS to write them back. Use when localising an app, filling in a language with an LLM, or auditing which strings are still untranslated. Covers why a translation can be stored and still never appear..

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What the file says

# Translations

Every user-visible string of a Mendix app — page titles, widget captions, button
labels, validation messages, enum captions, menu items — is a `Texts$Text` with
one translation per language. MDL treats them in bulk: one file per language.

## The loop

```bash
# 1. export: an untranslated string comes back with an EMPTY target
mxcli -p app.mpr -c "describe translations for de_DE" > de_DE.mdl

# 2. fill in the right-hand sides (by hand, or hand the file to an LLM)

# 3. write them back
mxcli exec de_DE.mdl -p app.mpr
```

That is the whole design: `DESCRIBE` emits the `CREATE` form, so the export
format and the import format are the same file, and the empty targets are the
prompt.

## Statements

```sql
describe translations [in <Module>] for <lang>;

create translations            [in <Module>] for <lang> ( 'src' as 'target', ... );
create or modify translations  [in <Module>] for <lang> ( 'src' as 'target', ... );
create or replace translations [in <Module>] for <lang> ( 'src' as 'target', ... );
```

Entries use `as`, not a colon: a translation maps a user-provided name to another
name.

| verb | meaning |
|------|---------|
…

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How to install

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  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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Source

GitHub

mendixlabs/mxcli · 124 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main

API

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