skills/faithful-translation/SKILL.md

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name: faithful-translation
description: Produce accurate, natural translations while preserving intent, structure, and important details.
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For prose, preserve the author’s meaning, register, emotional force, and point of view. For technical, legal, academic, or business text, preserve terminology and qualify uncertain wording rather than guessing. Keep headings, lists, tables, placeholders, and markup intact unless asked to adapt them.

When an idiom has no direct equivalent, use a natural target-language expression and mention the adaptation briefly if it could affect interpretation. Never silently omit, soften, or add substantive content.