microsoft · gogi-eng · May 23, 2026
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "ai-engineer-coach",
-  "displayName": "AI Engineer Coach",
-  "description": "Analyze your AI coding assistant usage across VS Code, Xcode, Claude, Codex, and OpenCode. Read-only, zero telemetry.",
+  "displayName": "%extension.displayName%",
+  "description": "%extension.description%",
   "version": "0.1.0",
   "publisher": "ai-engineer-coach",
   "author": {
@@ -44,25 +44,25 @@
     "commands": [
       {
         "command": "aiEngineerCoach.open",
-        "title": "AI Engineer Coach: Open Dashboard",
+        "title": "%command.open%",
         "icon": "$(graph)"
       },
       {
         "command": "aiEngineerCoach.reload",
-        "title": "AI Engineer Coach: Reload Data",
+        "title": "%command.reload%",
         "icon": "$(refresh)"
       },
       {
         "command": "aiEngineerCoach.reviewLocalRules",
-        "title": "AI Engineer Coach: Review Local Rule Approvals",
+        "title": "%command.reviewRules%",
         "icon": "$(shield)"
       }
     ],
     "viewsContainers": {
       "activitybar": [
         {
           "id": "aiEngineerCoach",
-          "title": "AI Engineer Coach",
+          "title": "%views.container.title%",
           "icon": "$(graph)"
         }
       ]
@@ -71,10 +71,21 @@
       "aiEngineerCoach": [
         {
           "id": "aiEngineerCoach.welcome",
-          "name": "Dashboard",
+          "name": "%views.dashboard.name%",
           "type": "webview"
         }
       ]
+    },
+    "configuration": {
+      "title": "AI Engineer Coach",
+      "properties": {
+        "aiEngineerCoach.locale": {
+          "type": "string",
+          "enum": ["auto", "en", "ru"],
+          "default": "auto",
+          "description": "%config.locale.description%"
+        }
+      }
     }
   },
   "scripts": {

diff --git a/package.nls.json b/package.nls.json
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{
+  "extension.displayName": "AI Engineer Coach",
+  "extension.description": "Analyze your AI coding assistant usage across VS Code, Cursor, Claude, Codex, and OpenCode. Read-only, zero telemetry.",
+  "command.open": "AI Engineer Coach: Open Dashboard",
+  "command.reload": "AI Engineer Coach: Reload Data",
+  "command.reviewRules": "AI Engineer Coach: Review Local Rule Approvals",
+  "views.container.title": "AI Engineer Coach",
+  "views.dashboard.name": "Dashboard",
+  "config.locale.description": "Dashboard language. auto = follow VS Code/Cursor display language."
+}
diff --git a/package.nls.ru.json b/package.nls.ru.json
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{
+  "extension.displayName": "AI Engineer Coach",
+  "extension.description": "Анализ работы с ИИ в VS Code, Cursor, Claude, Codex и OpenCode. Только локально, без телеметрии.",
+  "command.open": "AI Engineer Coach: Открыть панель",
+  "command.reload": "AI Engineer Coach: Обновить данные",
+  "command.reviewRules": "AI Engineer Coach: Проверить локальные правила",
+  "views.container.title": "AI Engineer Coach",
+  "views.dashboard.name": "Обзор",
+  "config.locale.description": "Язык панели. auto — как в Cursor/VS Code; ru — всегда русский."
+}
diff --git a/src/ui-locale.ts b/src/ui-locale.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ *  Resolve UI language for webviews (extension host).
+ *--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
+
+import * as vscode from 'vscode';
+import { resolveLocale, type Locale } from './webview/i18n';
+
+export function getUiLanguageTag(): string {
+  const pref = vscode.workspace.getConfiguration('aiEngineerCoach').get<string>('locale', 'auto');
+  if (pref === 'en') return 'en';
+  if (pref === 'ru') return 'ru';
+  return vscode.env.language;
+}
+
+export function getUiLocale(): Locale {
+  return resolveLocale(getUiLanguageTag());
+}
diff --git a/src/webview/app.ts b/src/webview/app.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,10 @@
 
 /* Webview entry -- runs in the browser context inside the VS Code webview */
 
+import { setLocaleFromDocument } from './i18n';
 import { AntiPatternData, DateFilter, StatsResult } from '../core/types';
+
+setLocaleFromDocument();
 import { $, $$, rpc, destroyCharts, initMessageListener, withErrorBoundary } from './shared';
 import { html, render, unmount, ComponentChildren } from './render';
 import { renderDashboard } from './page-dashboard';

diff --git a/src/webview/i18n.ts b/src/webview/i18n.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,163 @@
+/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ *  UI strings — English / Russian (sidebar, dashboard shell, commands).
+ *--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
+
+export type Locale = 'en' | 'ru';
+
+const MESSAGES = {
+  en: {
+    'nav.observe': 'Observe',
+    'nav.measure': 'Measure',
+    'nav.improve': 'Improve',
+    'nav.levelUp': 'Level Up',
+    'nav.dashboard': 'Dashboard',
+    'nav.timeline': 'Timeline',
+    'nav.codingMoments': 'Coding Moments',
+    'nav.output': 'Output',
+    'nav.burndown': 'Burndown',
+    'nav.patterns': 'Patterns',
+    'nav.antiPatterns': 'Anti-Patterns',
+    'nav.skillFinder': 'Skill Finder',
+    'nav.contextHealth': 'Context Health',
+    'nav.levelUpPage': 'Level Up',
+    'filter.workspace': 'Workspace',
+    'filter.current': 'Current',
+    'filter.all': 'All',
+    'filter.searchWs': 'Search workspaces...',
+    'filter.harness': 'Harness',
+    'filter.allHarnesses': 'All Harnesses',
+    'sidebar.title': 'AI Engineer Coach',
+    'sidebar.noData': 'No data yet — sync your sessions to get started.',
+    'sidebar.harnesses': 'Detected harnesses',
+    'sidebar.lastSync': 'Last synced',
+    'sidebar.explore': 'Explore AI Insights',
+    'sidebar.sync': 'Sync Sessions',
+    'dash.calibrating': 'Calibrating the dashboard vibes...',
+    'dash.vibes': 'Dashboard vibes sampled across {n} dimensions',
+    'dash.requests': 'Requests',
+    'dash.sessions': 'Sessions',
+    'dash.loc': 'AI LoC',
+    'dash.workspaces': 'Workspaces',
+    'dash.tokenHidden': 'Token Usage & Burndown temporarily hidden',
+    'dash.tokenHiddenDesc':
+      'These features are disabled until we can verify that reported numbers align with GitHub billing data.',
+    'dash.apSummary': 'Anti-Patterns Summary',
+    'dash.viewAllAp': 'View All Anti-Patterns →',
+    'dash.skillFinder': 'Skill Finder',
+    'dash.openSkills': 'Open Full View →',
+    'dash.skillDesc':
+      'Scans your prompt history for repeated patterns that waste time re-explaining the same tasks.',
+    'dash.skillAnalyze': 'Analyze your prompt history to discover skill opportunities.',
+    'dash.scanSkills': 'Scan for Skills',
+    'dash.dailyActivity': 'Daily Activity',
+    'dash.topWs': 'Top Workspaces by Requests',
+    'dash.byHarness': 'Requests by Harness',
+    'dash.close': 'Close',
+    'score.mergeWizard': 'Merge Wizard',
+    'score.shipGoblin': 'Ship Goblin Deluxe',
+    'score.vibeGremlin': 'Vibe Refactor Gremlin',
+    'score.rubberDuck': 'Rubber Duck Ringleader',
+    'score.stackTrace': 'Stack Trace Survivor',
+    'langBanner':
+      'Main menu is in Russian. Some inner pages are still in English — we are translating them gradually.',
+  },
+  ru: {
+    'nav.observe': 'Наблюдение',
+    'nav.measure': 'Метрики',
+    'nav.improve': 'Улучшение',
+    'nav.levelUp': 'Развитие',
+    'nav.dashboard': 'Обзор',
+    'nav.timeline': 'Таймлайн',
+    'nav.codingMoments': 'Моменты кода',
+    'nav.output': 'Выработка',
+    'nav.burndown': 'Расход токенов',
+    'nav.patterns': 'Паттерны',
+    'nav.antiPatterns': 'Антипаттерны',
+    'nav.skillFinder': 'Поиск навыков',
+    'nav.contextHealth': 'Контекст',
+    'nav.levelUpPage': 'Обучение',
+    'filter.workspace': 'Проект',
+    'filter.current': 'Текущий',
+    'filter.all': 'Все',
+    'filter.searchWs': 'Поиск проектов...',
+    'filter.harness': 'Среда ИИ',
+    'filter.allHarnesses': 'Все среды',
+    'sidebar.title': 'AI Engineer Coach',
+    'sidebar.noData': 'Пока нет данных — синхронизируйте сессии.',
+    'sidebar.harnesses': 'Обнаруженные среды',
+    'sidebar.lastSync': 'Обновлено',
+    'sidebar.explore': 'Открыть аналитику',
+    'sidebar.sync': 'Синхронизировать',
+    'dash.calibrating': 'Считаем сводку…',
+    'dash.vibes': 'Сводка по {n} направлениям',
+    'dash.requests': 'Запросы',
+    'dash.sessions': 'Сессии',
+    'dash.loc': 'Строк ИИ',
+    'dash.workspaces': 'Проекты',
+    'dash.tokenHidden': 'Токены и Burndown временно скрыты',
+    'dash.tokenHiddenDesc':
+      'Раздел отключён, пока не сверим цифры с биллингом GitHub.',
+    'dash.apSummary': 'Сводка антипаттернов',
+    'dash.viewAllAp': 'Все антипаттерны →',
+    'dash.skillFinder': 'Поиск навыков',
+    'dash.openSkills': 'Полный вид →',
+    'dash.skillDesc':
+      'Ищет повторяющиеся промпты, чтобы оформить их в навыки и не объяснять одно и то же.',
+    'dash.skillAnalyze': 'Проанализируйте историю промптов и найдите полезные навыки.',
+    'dash.scanSkills': 'Сканировать навыки',
+    'dash.dailyActivity': 'Активность по дням',
+    'dash.topWs': 'Топ проектов по запросам',
+    'dash.byHarness': 'Запросы по среде ИИ',
+    'dash.close': 'Закрыть',
+    'score.mergeWizard': 'Мастер слияний',
+    'score.shipGoblin': 'Гоблин релизов',
+    'score.vibeGremlin': 'Гремлин рефакторинга',
+    'score.rubberDuck': 'Утконаводитель',
+    'score.stackTrace': 'Выживший в стектрейсе',
+    'langBanner':
+      'Меню на русском. Часть внутренних страниц пока на английском — перевод добавляется постепенно.',
+  },
+} as const;
+
+export type MessageKey = keyof typeof MESSAGES.en;
+
+let activeLocale: Locale = 'en';
+
+export function resolveLocale(vscodeLanguage: string): Locale {
+  const lang = (vscodeLanguage || 'en').toLowerCase();
+  return lang.startsWith('ru') ? 'ru' : 'en';
+}
+
+export function setActiveLocale(locale: Locale): void {
+  activeLocale = locale;
+}
+
+export function getActiveLocale(): Locale {
+  return activeLocale;
+}
+
+export function setLocaleFromDocument(): void {
+  const lang = document.documentElement.getAttribute('lang') || 'en';
+  activeLocale = resolveLocale(lang);
+}
+
+export function t(key: MessageKey, locale?: Locale): string {
+  const loc = locale ?? activeLocale;
+  return MESSAGES[loc][key] ?? MESSAGES.en[key];
+}
+
+export function tFormat(key: MessageKey, vars: Record<string, string | number>, locale?: Locale): string {
+  let s = t(key, locale);
+  for (const [k, v] of Object.entries(vars)) {
+    s = s.replace(`{${k}}`, String(v));
+  }
+  return s;
+}
+
+export function funScoreLabel(score: number, locale?: Locale): string {
+  if (score >= 90) return t('score.mergeWizard', locale);
+  if (score >= 75) return t('score.shipGoblin', locale);
+  if (score >= 60) return t('score.vibeGremlin', locale);
+  if (score >= 40) return t('score.rubberDuck', locale);
+  return t('score.stackTrace', locale);
+}