Manage Phrase Strings localization projects: locales, keys, translations, file uploads and downloads, and jobs.
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.
io.w6w.phrasePhrase 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.
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.
account-list List the Phrase accounts (organizations) the token can see; the account id is needed to create projects.
format-list List the file formats Phrase can import and export, with the `api_name` to use as a file format.
key-search Search keys with a query in the request body (for queries too long for a URL).
locale-download Download one locale as a file in a chosen format (JSON, YAML, strings, XLIFF, …). Returns the file text.
project-update Change a project's name, main format or key settings. Only the fields you set are sent.
translation-list List translations in a project, filtered by key, locale or content.
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`.
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>"
}
}
]
}job-complete account-list format-list job-create 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.
npm install @w6w/sdkyarn add @w6w/sdkpnpm add @w6w/sdkdeno add npm:@w6w/sdkimport { 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); npm install -g @w6w/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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Phrase Strings declares its own checks, so its health is a property of the app rather than something the host guesses at.
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.
Requests remaining in Phrase's current rate-limit window.