# bilingual-courseware

Maintains bilingual university course materials using a confirmed terminology glossary, pedagogical equivalence checks, and drift detection.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 41
- Author: YujxZJCN
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/YujxZJCN/teaching-skills/tree/HEAD/bilingual-courseware/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-03
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/bilingual-courseware

## What it does

This skill organizes a four-agent team to manage paired course materials across two languages. While configured for English and Simplified Chinese by default, it handles any language pair when supplied with conventions. Translating artifacts follows a confirmed terminology dictionary: `glossary_keeper_agent` extracts terms, while `translator_agent` handles syllabus and slide translations.

Translation stops immediately whenever an unconfirmed term appears. The professor must confirm candidate terms before work resumes, avoiding improvised vocabulary that confuses students. The `parallel` mode monitors updates across versions without automated merging, while `terminology_auditor_agent` conducts read-only scans across all materials to catch stray or inconsistent terms.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add YujxZJCN/teaching-skills --skill bilingual-courseware -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/bilingual-courseware/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/bilingual-courseware/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add YujxZJCN/teaching-skills --skill bilingual-courseware -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/bilingual-courseware/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add YujxZJCN/teaching-skills --skill bilingual-courseware -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/bilingual-courseware/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install YujxZJCN/teaching-skills bilingual-courseware
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/bilingual-courseware/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add YujxZJCN/teaching-skills --skill bilingual-courseware -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/YujxZJCN/teaching-skills --path bilingual-courseware
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/bilingual-courseware/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add YujxZJCN/teaching-skills --skill bilingual-courseware -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/YujxZJCN/teaching-skills/tree/HEAD/bilingual-courseware/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- extract and build a versioned course terminology glossary
- translate syllabi and slides while preserving pedagogical demands
- detect drift and version divergence across language pairs
- audit slides and exams for glossary consistency in read-only mode

## Example prompts
- Build a terminology glossary for my machine learning course
- Translate my syllabus into Chinese, with the English version as original
- Check whether my slides and exam use the glossary terms consistently

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: bilingual-courseware
description: "Bilingual course-material maintenance for university professors — default EN ⇄ 简体中文, language-pair agnostic. 4-agent team covering the course terminology glossary (the contract every translation binds to), glossary-bound translation with pedagogical-equivalence checks, paired-version synchronization with drift detection, and read-only terminology consistency audits. Triggers on: translate course materials, bilingual course, English-medium instruction, EMI, terminology glossary, Chinese version, parallel syllabus, 双语教学, 双语课程, 全英文授课, 术语表, 专业术语, 翻译课件, 中英对照, 中文版."
metadata:
  version: "1.0.0"
  last_updated: "2026-06-10"
  status: active
  pipeline_stage: support
  related_skills:
    - course-designer
    - lesson-builder
    - course-publisher
    - media-scripter
---

# Bilingual Courseware — Terminology & Paired-Version Team

Maintains bilingual course materials with terminology discipline. Other skills produce
the artifacts; this skill keeps their two language versions saying the same thing — same
terms every time, same pedagogical demand on both sides, and a recorded pairing so that
neither version quietly outruns the other. Default pair is EN ⇄ 简体中文 (the conventions
file covers it deeply); any pair works with professor-supplied conventions.

> **Prime rule:** the glossary is the contract. Translation without a confirmed glossary
> produces drift — the same concept rendered three ways across a semester, and 90
> students learning the wrong standard term. Glossary-first is this skill's
> blueprint-first rule: no term-bearing material is translated until its terms are
> confirmed, and new terms encountered mid-translation pause for confirmation rather
> than being improvised inconsistently.

## Quick Start

```
Build a terminology glossary for my machine learning course
Translate my syllabus into Chinese — the English version is the original
把这门课的教学大纲翻译成英文，专业术语要统一
I updated the English syllabus to v2 — bring the Chinese version up to date
检查我所有课件里的术语是否一致
Check whether my slides and exam use the glossary terms consistently
```

## Modes

| Mode | Trigger intent | Output |
|------|---------------|--------|
| `glossary` | "Build/extend a glossary", new course going bilingual, new unit's terms, 术语表 | Course terminology glossary: candidate terms extracted from course materials, translations proposed with authority notes, professor confirms each entry; maintained artifact, versioned |
| `translate` | "Translate X", 翻译课件 / 中文版 — one artifact: outcomes, syllabus, slides source, handouts, exam instructions | Glossary-bound translation + pedagogical-equivalence pass + divergence log + pairing-registry entry |
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