translation-files/AGENTS.md

MPI Project Conventions

Skills

MPI skills live in skills/ and are loaded via ~/.hermes/config.yaml:

skills:
  external_dirs:
  - /home/user/documents/mpi/skills

Available skills: terms-search, dharma-translation, translation-review, chinese-text-normalize, pptx-translate, pdf-to-docx-conversion.

{% hermes config set stringifies list values — edit config.yaml directly for proper YAML list syntax. %}

Terms Database

• DB: terms-search/termlib.duckdb
• CLI: terms-search/search.py <query> [limit]
• Source priority: DoT定稿 > 内部特色词 > 佛教术语 > 经论名

Translation Workflow

1. Load dharma-translation and terms-search skills
2. Search terms DB for key terms before translating
3. Translate directly (agent IS the model — no external translation APIs)
4. Write target.dj alongside source.dj, matching source line count
5. TOC: bullet list, no link targets

Djot Conventions

• Comments: {% ... %}
• Em dashes in English: three hyphens (---)
• En dashes in English: two hyphens (--)
• No 对照.dj files — don't create or delete them
• Translation formatting: preserve source formatting exactly

Scripts

Fish shell. Live in scripts/.