# nuxt-i18n-mcp MCP Server MCP server for managing i18n translations in Nuxt projects. **Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server. ## Status Pod has not dialled nuxt-i18n-mcp yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim. ## Connect Published as `nuxt-i18n-mcp` on npm. Runs locally. ## Known issues **143 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12. ### Most discussed ### Idea: layer-aware ESLint integration for monorepos (evaluate upstreaming to @intlify first) Idea / not scheduled. Captured from the anny-ui lint evaluation (2026-08-11, MR anny-ui!2025). ## Problem `@intlify/eslint-plugin-vue-i18n` models one flat message catalog per locale. In layered monorepos (Nuxt layers, multi-app setups) that model breaks: - `no-duplicate-keys-in-locale` reports the layer architecture itself as duplicates (measured: **2,620 warnings** on anny-ui — override relationships are indistinguishable from mistakes). - `no-missing-keys` only works with union semantics ( [Read the thread](https://github.com/fabkho/the-i18n-kit/issues/289) · 2026-08-11 · closed · 4 comments ### Spec: AST-only scanning — flip the JS/TS/Vue default, add the PHP/Blade frontend, evacuate PHP from the core Completes the migration #332 specifies. Phase gates were measured on real corpora before this was written; the numbers are in Further Notes. ## Problem Statement The scanner that decides which translation keys are alive — and therefore which ones `remove-orphans` may delete — has two answers to that question. The AST frontend answers by resolving what a name is bound to; the regex path answers by pattern-matching text, with heuristics whose failure modes are deleting a used key (#298) or prote [Read the thread](https://github.com/fabkho/the-i18n-kit/issues/399) · 2026-08-22 · open · 3 comments ### Spec: adopt MCP 2026-07-28 once the TypeScript SDK ships it **Activation trigger**: a `@modelcontextprotocol/sdk` release with `LATEST_PROTOCOL_VERSION = '2026-07-28'` (check: `npm view @modelcontextprotocol/sdk version` + the `types.js` constant). Until then this spec is **blocked — do not start**. Re-check in a few weeks; the revision is currently a draft. ## Problem Statement MCP 2026-07-28 ([changelog](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28/changelog), [Claude announcement](https://claude.com/blog/bringing-mcp-2026-07-28-to-claude [Read the thread](https://github.com/fabkho/the-i18n-kit/issues/218) · 2026-08-09 · closed · 3 comments ### Layer logic: unify duplicated claim/ownership glue (has a silent-drop bug), add layer graph + find_duplicate_keys From the 2026-08-09 layer-logic analysis, triggered by a real anny-ui finding: 14 keys duplicated between root and app-shop's layer (`pages.account.settings.businessAccount.*`), **8 with divergent German source text** — an incomplete root→app migration that no current kit tool can detect. ## Findings 1. **The alias/ownership claim logic is implemented twice and has silently diverged** (`adapters/nuxt/index.ts` ~147-176 in `loadAndMergeApps` vs ~349-381 in `discoverLocaleDirs`): different takeo [Read the thread](https://github.com/fabkho/the-i18n-kit/issues/202) · 2026-08-09 · closed · 3 comments ### Spec: replace MCP sampling with direct provider calls + agent fallback MCP sampling is deprecated as of protocol 2026-07-28 (SEP-2577). This spec removes it entirely and replaces it with two first-class translation modes. Synthesized from the 2026-08-08 assessment and a field report from an agent using the MCP in Claude Code. ## Problem Statement The kit's headline feature — auto-translating missing keys — depends on MCP sampling, which is deprecated and was never supported by major hosts anyway (Claude Code among them). In such hosts, `translate_missing` reports [Read the thread](https://github.com/fabkho/the-i18n-kit/issues/198) · 2026-08-08 · closed · 3 comments ### Most recent ### Spec: @the-i18n-kit/eslint-plugin — contract rules and layer-aware scope rules, one plugin Single spec for the ESLint plugin and all its rules. Folds in and supersedes #289 (layer-aware validation; the upstream-intlify evaluation is closed out below) and #421 (authoring rules). #420 motivates one rule. Measurement context: the anny-ui lint evaluation (2,620 false duplicate warnings from flat-catalog tooling) and the 2026-08-24 wire-driven-keys audit. ## Problem Statement Two classes of i18n mistakes surface only after they are expensive: 1. **Authoring idioms that defeat the scanne [Read the thread](https://github.com/fabkho/the-i18n-kit/issues/422) · 2026-08-24 · closed · 1 comment ### @the-i18n-kit/eslint-plugin: authoring rules that keep the scanner sound ## Parent #289 tracks the *catalog-validation* side of ESLint integration (layer-aware `no-missing-keys` etc., upstream-intlify evaluation first) — that stays open and unchanged. This ticket is the other half: authoring-idiom rules that keep the scanner sound, which no upstream can provide because they enforce this kit's contract. #420 motivates the second rule. Note: #289 described a repo-local `no-variable-prefix-i18n-keys` rule in anny-ui. The audit found it was never actually implemented — [Read the thread](https://github.com/fabkho/the-i18n-kit/issues/421) · 2026-08-24 · closed · 1 comment ### Evacuate PHP from the core: reader and patterns behind the optional-peer seam ## Parent #399 (Spec: AST-only scanning) — Phase 3. ## What to build A JavaScript-project install carries no PHP, in code or dependencies. The PHP locale-file reader moves from hard dependency to optional peer behind the same project-root dynamic-import seam the parser uses, joining the single "Laravel projects install these" story. The Laravel pattern set and the PHP bare-candidate shape move into the PHP frontend directory. The missing-dependency error for a `php-array` project names exactl [Read the thread](https://github.com/fabkho/the-i18n-kit/issues/406) · 2026-08-22 · closed · 1 comment ### Flip the PHP default — the bookings-api gate, and the contract trial ## Parent #399 (Spec: AST-only scanning) — Phase 2 gate. ## What to build The PHP frontend becomes the default for `php-array` projects, gated the same way the JS flip was: evidence over a real corpus, not the technique's appeal. Extend the differential harness to run the Laravel pattern set, run it over the bookings-api corpus (~4,240 PHP files, 45 Blade templates, 30+ locales including a formal/informal pair sharing a language tag), and diff the operations — check, status, missing, dry-run [Read the thread](https://github.com/fabkho/the-i18n-kit/issues/405) · 2026-08-22 · closed · 0 comments ### Blade lifting: directives and echoes parsed as the PHP they wrap ## Parent #399 (Spec: AST-only scanning) — Phase 2. ## What to build Blade templates understood as the PHP expressions they wrap: `@lang(…)`, `@choice(…)` and `{{ __(…) }}` lifted lexically out of the template and handed to the PHP parser, flowing through the same rules as every other call site. The lifting regex frames text only — it never decides what a key is. A Blade construct the lifter does not recognise degrades to the pattern fallback for that file, never to silence. ## Acceptance cr [Read the thread](https://github.com/fabkho/the-i18n-kit/issues/404) · 2026-08-22 · closed · 0 comments ### PHP frontend: helpers, interpolation and concat as syntax, php-parser as optional peer ## Parent #399 (Spec: AST-only scanning) — Phase 2. ## What to build A PHP language frontend, opt-in and parallel to the JS flip: Laravel translation helpers (`__`, `trans`, `trans_choice`, `Lang::get`) recognised as syntax, double-quoted `"prefix.{$var}"` interpolation reported as a template argument, `.`-concatenation as a concat argument — the same call-site shapes every frontend emits, interpreted by the same rules. PHP-specific pressure on the contract (choice-call count arguments, Larav [Read the thread](https://github.com/fabkho/the-i18n-kit/issues/403) · 2026-08-22 · closed · 0 comments ### Flip the JS/TS/Vue default to AST, delete the superseded heuristics — anny-ui gate ## Parent #399 (Spec: AST-only scanning) — Phase 1. ## What to build The AST frontend becomes the default scanner for JS/TS/Vue, with the pattern frontend running only for files the parser declines. In the same change, the heuristics the AST supersedes are deleted — the callee dot requirement, the textual const table and its substitution, static promotion of slotless dynamic matches — together with the test expectations that encoded their artifacts (the concat-prefix pseudo-key). 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