First-party app
Phrase

Phrase Strings

Manage Phrase Strings localization projects: locales, keys, translations, file uploads and downloads, and jobs.

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Phrase Strings ships in the w6w first-party pack. It declares 32 actions, 2 health checks, and the host runs its code in a sandbox that never sees the credential.

App id
io.w6w.phrase
Version
0.1.0
Author
w6w
Licence
MIT
Categories
Developer Tools · Productivity

Overview

Phrase Strings is a localization platform for software: developers push source strings in, translators and machine translation fill in every language, and the finished files flow back into the build. This app puts that loop inside a workflow.

It covers the day-to-day surface of the Strings API: projects and their locales, translation keys (create, tag, search, update, delete), translations (set, edit, verify), file uploads in any of Phrase’s formats with a pollable processing state, locale downloads in any export format, and translation jobs that route keys to translators.

Both Phrase data centres are supported: pick EU or US on the connection and every call goes to the right host. List actions return a uniform page object with the total and the next page number so a workflow can walk a large project safely. Health checks follow Phrase’s own status page for the connection’s data centre and the live rate-limit window.

Build with Phrase Strings

Three routes to the same 32 actions. The Workflow tab is generated from Phrase Strings's own manifest and carries its real ids, so it is copy-pasteable; the Code and CLI examples are the same call for any action on any app, so every app-specific value in them is a blank you fill in.

List Accounts

account-list

List the Phrase accounts (organizations) the token can see; the account id is needed to create projects.

List Formats

format-list

List the file formats Phrase can import and export, with the `api_name` to use as a file format.

Complete Job

job-complete

Mark a job completed.

Create Job

job-create

Create a translation job, optionally with keys and target locales.

Get Job

job-get

Fetch one job with its locales and keys.

List Jobs

job-list

List translation jobs in a project.

Start Job

job-start

Move a draft job to in progress.

Create Key

key-create

Create a translation key, optionally with its default-locale content.

Delete Key

key-delete

Permanently delete a key and all of its translations.

Get Key

key-get

Fetch one translation key with its description, tags and plural settings.

List Keys

key-list

List a project's translation keys, optionally filtered by a search query.

Search Keys

key-search

Search keys with a query in the request body (for queries too long for a URL).

Update Key

key-update

Change a key's name, description, tags or plural settings.

Tag Keys

keys-tag

Add tags to every key matching a search query.

Create Locale

locale-create

Add a locale to a project.

Download Locale

locale-download

Download one locale as a file in a chosen format (JSON, YAML, strings, XLIFF, …). Returns the file text.

Get Locale

locale-get

Fetch one locale by id or code.

List Locales

locale-list

List a project's locales.

Create Project

project-create

Create a project in an account.

Get Project

project-get

Fetch one project, including its main format and account.

List Projects

project-list

List projects visible to the token, optionally filtered by name.

Update Project

project-update

Change a project's name, main format or key settings. Only the fields you set are sent.

List Tags

tag-list

List a project's tags with how many keys carry each.

Create Translation

translation-create

Set the translation of a key in a locale.

Get Translation

translation-get

Fetch one translation.

List Translations

translation-list

List translations in a project, filtered by key, locale or content.

Update Translation

translation-update

Change a translation's content or state.

Verify Translation

translation-verify

Mark a translation as verified.

Upload File

upload-create

Import a locale file (JSON, YAML, strings, XLIFF, …) into a project. Processing is asynchronous: poll Get Upload until `state` is `success` or `failed`.

Get Upload

upload-get

Fetch one upload — poll this until `state` leaves `processing`.

List Uploads

upload-list

List a project's uploads and their processing state.

Get Current User

user-get

Return the user the access token belongs to (id, username, name, email, language).

A workflow step names the app and the action, and the editor fills in the connection when you pick one. This is the Step shape from the workflow spec, carrying Phrase Strings's real ids.

{
  "manifestVersion": "2",
  "name": "phrase-example",
  "steps": [
    {
      "id": "job-complete",
      "uses": {
        "app": "io.w6w.phrase",
        "action": "job-complete",
        "connection": "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID"
      },
      "with": {
        "projectId": "<projectId>",
        "jobId": "<jobId>"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Here are some of the things you can do

  • Complete Job

    perform
    job-complete
  • List Accounts

    search
    account-list
  • List Formats

    search
    format-list
  • Create Job

    perform
    job-create
  • Get Job

    read
    job-get

+27 more actions available

Every app-specific value here is a blank you have to fill in. An app action is reached through the connection that authenticates it, so the address is a connection id, not the app id — and connections belong to your account, so a public page cannot know yours. Create one for Phrase Strings, then fill in the three blanks: conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID, the action key, and the parameters that action declares. The call itself is real — the shape is transcribed from the studio's own snippet builder, which prints the same kind of blanks — but nothing in it is specific to Phrase Strings. The Workflow tab is where this app's real ids are.

Install
npm install @w6w/sdk
yarn add @w6w/sdk
pnpm add @w6w/sdk
deno add npm:@w6w/sdk
Code
import { W6wClient, isActionRun } from "@w6w/sdk";

// Reads W6W_BASE_URL and W6W_TOKEN from the environment when omitted.
const client = new W6wClient();

const envelope = await client.run({
  urn: "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID",
  action: "job-complete",
  payload: {
    projectId: "<value>",
    jobId: "<value>",
    // branch: "<value>",
  },
});

if (isActionRun(envelope)) console.log(envelope.value);
Install the CLI
npm install -g @w6w/cli
CLI
w6w run conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID --action job-complete --payload '{"projectId":"<value>","jobId":"<value>"}'

Give an AI agent Phrase Strings — without giving it Phrase Strings's credentials. One MCP endpoint exposes every app, function and workflow the caller is entitled to, as tools it can discover and run. Access is granted per team while we onboard.

One tool call
{
  "name": "w6w_invoke",
  "arguments": {
    "ref": "app:io.w6w.phrase#job-complete",
    "input": {
      "projectId": "<projectId>",
      "jobId": "<jobId>"
    }
  }
}

Every tool names its target with a single ref. The app: form above doesn't name a connection at all — the host resolves which of the caller's Phrase Strings connections to sign with, and refuses rather than guesses when the answer is ambiguous.

What the agent gets

Credentials it can't read

The token is attached host-side, at the moment of the call. It is never a tool argument, never in the model's context, and never in a transcript — so a prompt injection has nothing to exfiltrate.

A tool surface scoped to the caller

Tools are derived per end user from what that person has actually connected and is entitled to — not one shared bot identity carrying the union of everyone's access.

A durable workflow in one call

Multi-step work runs on the workflow engine and returns a run handle the agent can poll — retries, branching and state survive the conversation that started them.

Health-aware discovery

Phrase Strings's declared health checks are on the surface too, so an agent can tell "the vendor is down" from "your credential expired" before it burns a retry on either.

The MCP surface is part of the hosted platform. Phrase Strings itself is MIT, and the runtime that executes it is source-available (FSL).

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Health checks

Phrase Strings declares its own checks, so its health is a property of the app rather than something the host guesses at.

service

Phrase Strings status

The API component of the connection's own data centre (EU or US) on status.phrase.com; other Strings components are reported but only ever degrade.

quota

API rate-limit headroom

Requests remaining in Phrase's current rate-limit window.