Addresses @tonydwb's review on PR #54872 (12:05 UTC, 2026-06-29):
> the hardcoded Chinese text in the wake messages (lines 118-128 of
> the diff) should be replaced with English or internationalized.
> The rest of the codebase uses English for user-facing messages,
> and hardcoded Chinese will confuse non-Chinese users. Consider
> using a constants dict or the existing i18n infrastructure.
Used the existing i18n infrastructure (agent/i18n.py::t()) — the same
surface gateway/run.py and slash_commands.py already use for static
user-facing strings.
## Changes
- gateway/kanban_watchers.py: import `t` from agent.i18n; replace the
hardcoded Chinese strings in the synthetic wake-up message with
t("gateway.kanban.wake.*") lookups. Behavior unchanged for zh users
(zh catalog preserves the original Chinese phrasing).
- locales/en.yaml: new `gateway.kanban.wake.*` baseline keys (English):
completed / gave_up / crashed / timed_out / blocked / status_default
/ status_joiner / message (with {task_id} {status} {title}
{assignee} {board} placeholders).
- locales/zh.yaml: Chinese translation of the new keys, preserving the
exact wording the original code used (so existing zh users see no
visible change).
- locales/{zh-hant,ja,de,es,fr,tr,uk,af,ko,it,ga,pt,ru,hu}.yaml: added
the same key set with English fallback values. The i18n invariant
test (tests/agent/test_i18n.py::test_catalog_keys_match_english)
requires every catalog to carry the same key set as en.yaml; native
translations can land incrementally without breaking users (the
loader falls back to en.yaml per-key when a translation is missing,
but the key must still exist).
## Verification
- scripts/run_tests.sh tests/agent/test_i18n.py
tests/gateway/test_kanban_watchers_mixin.py
tests/gateway/test_kanban_notifier.py
tests/gateway/test_kanban_notifier_watcher_dispatch_gate.py
→ 60 passed, 0 failed (i18n catalog parity + placeholders parity +
existing kanban notifier behavior).
- Manual: with HERMES_LANGUAGE=en, t("gateway.kanban.wake.completed")
returns "completed"; with HERMES_LANGUAGE=zh, returns "已完成";
with HERMES_LANGUAGE=ja (translation pending), falls back to
"completed" per-key.
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