Use locale-neutral images and provide cultural overrides when needed
SkillMedialocale-images is a skill that lets an AI agent review image assets, icon libraries, and components that render illustrations. It identifies culture-specific content that may need locale overrides or replacement with neutral alternatives, so localized versions of a product can be planned before shipping.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
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Have an AI agent that supports loading skills.
Then ask your AI: use the Use locale-neutral images and provide cultural overrides when needed skill
What your AI can do with it
- Review image assets for culture-specific content
- Inspect icon libraries for imagery that may not travel across locales
- Check components that render illustrations for locale-sensitive content
- Flag images that may need locale overrides
- Identify assets that could be replaced with neutral alternatives
Getting started
- Have an AI agent that supports loading skills.
- Add the locale-images skill to the agent's available skills.
- Point the agent at the image assets, icon libraries, or illustration components to review.
- Ask the agent to identify culture-specific content and report what may need locale overrides or neutral replacements.
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by thedaviddias/front-end-checklist in skills/locale-images/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Images that feel natural in one culture can be confusing or offensive in another — a thumbs-up is a vulgar gesture in parts of the Middle East and West Africa, and a checkmark means "wrong" in Japan. Choosing neutral visuals by default and providing targeted overrides avoids unintentional offence and keeps the image management surface small.
Quick Reference
- Hand gestures, colors, and common symbols carry different meanings across cultures
- Prefer abstract or universally understood icons as the default
- When locale-specific images are required use a lookup map with a neutral fallback
- Never embed text inside images — it cannot be translated or resized
Check
Identify image assets, SVG icons, and illustration components that use hand gestures, color symbolism, animals, or religious imagery that may carry different meanings across cultures or locales.
Fix
Replace culturally specific images with locale-neutral alternatives where possible, and implement a locale-aware image lookup with a neutral fallback for images that must vary by region.
Explain
Explain why culturally specific imagery causes problems for international audiences and how a locale-image lookup pattern provides targeted overrides without requiring a separate asset for every locale.
Code Review
Review React components and asset pipelines for hardcoded image paths, hand gesture icons, flag icons used to represent languages, and any image that contains embedded text. Flag each as a potential localization concern.
For full implementation details, code examples, and framework-specific guidance,
see references/rule.md.
Rule page: https://frontendchecklist.io/en/rules/i18n/locale-images
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 74k
- Forks
- 7k
- Last commit
- Aug 2026
Questions
- When should this skill be used?
- Use it when reviewing image assets, icon libraries, or components that render illustrations to identify culture-specific content that may need locale overrides or replacement with neutral alternatives.
- Does the skill replace images itself?
- It identifies culture-specific content that may need localized replacements or neutral alternatives; the catalog description does not state that it performs the replacement.
Advanced
- Item type
- skill
- Key
locale-images- Source
- github.com/thedaviddias/front-end-checklist