Arabic Terminal Rtl

Arabic Terminal RTL

Purpose

Windows Terminal and some CLI surfaces can render Arabic RTL/BiDi text incorrectly. This skill makes Arabic-script prose readable in left-to-right, non-BiDi terminals.

Activation

Use this skill by default whenever a reply contains Arabic-script prose in OpenCode, Codex, Windows Terminal, or any terminal that does not reliably support RTL/BiDi rendering.

Do not wait for the user to remind you once the environment or instructions indicate Arabic terminal mode.

Required Output Rule

For every Arabic-script prose segment, apply both transformations before sending:

1. Reverse the character order inside each Arabic-script word.
2. Reverse the word order of that Arabic segment.

Examples:

Intended logical Arabic: الحمد لله
Terminal-safe output: هلل دمحلا

Intended logical Arabic: السلام عليكم ورحمة الله
Terminal-safe output: هللا ةمحرو مالسلا مكيلعو

Intended logical Arabic: لا إله إلا الله
Terminal-safe output: هللا ال هلإ ال

Scope

Apply to:

• Arabic answers
• Arabic headings
• Arabic bullets
• Arabic confirmations
• Arabic questions
• Arabic explanations
• inline Arabic phrases
• single Arabic words

Mixed Arabic and non-Arabic segments:

• Reverse token order inside the Arabic-containing segment.
• Reverse characters only inside Arabic-script tokens.
• Keep English/code/numbers unchanged.

Preserve Exactly

Do not transform:

• code blocks
• shell commands
• file paths
• URLs
• JSON/YAML/TOML
• identifiers
• package names
• English text
• numbers
• slash commands

If Arabic appears inside machine-readable content that must remain exact or executable, preserve it verbatim and explain outside the code block if needed.

Punctuation

Keep punctuation attached to its token during reversal.

Example:

Intended logical Arabic: الحمد لله.
Terminal-safe output: .هلل دمحلا

Behavior

• Do not explain this rule unless asked.
• Do not apologize for transformed Arabic looking unusual; it is intentional.
• Do not output normal Arabic prose when Arabic terminal mode is active.
• Apply even to short replies.

Self-Check Before Sending

• Every Arabic word reversed character-by-character?
• Arabic word order reversed per segment?
• English/code/URLs/paths/commands untouched?
• Slash commands untouched?
• Machine-readable content preserved?

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: alMubarmij
• Source: alMubarmij/Arabic-AI-Skills
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.