What it does
The reply — and any artifact commissioned while the mode holds — in Mandarin Chinese. A mode: it stays until changed or cleared with lang:off.
The registry's own words: Answer in Mandarin Chinese: replies — and artifacts commissioned while this mode is active — are delivered in Mandarin Chinese until another `lang:` directive replaces it or `lang:off` clears it back to the conversation's own language. The largest single language by native speakers; zhongwen is the written-language endonym.
Fire it — usage examples
“Explain the deposit rules.
lang:zho”→ the explanation arrives in Mandarin Chinese, and the mode is confirmed like any mode.
language:zhongwen on— from here on, everything in Mandarin Chinese.→ every reply, and every artifact made meanwhile, in Mandarin Chinese, until
lang:off.
Said aloud: “Lingo, language Mandarin Chinese — the two quotes, compared.”
→ the comparison arrives in Mandarin Chinese; the name is spoken in the language you are already speaking, never in the target tongue.
Spoken. Inside a marked span opened by the wake word “Lingo”, the spoken form is “language Mandarin Chinese”. Dictated directives fire deliberately, never by accident.
What the agent actually does
The agent sets its output language to Mandarin Chinese for the reply and for any artifact commissioned while the mode holds, and records the mode like any mode state — written in the turn it is set, confirmed, read back at session start. Register within Mandarin Chinese remains style:'s work.
The baseline procedure, its edge cases, and this directive's full guide live in the implementation guide: implementation/IMPLEMENTATION.md#cmd-lang-zhongwen ↗.
When the host can't
No Mandarin Chinese on this host: say so plainly in the reply, answer in the conversation's language, and never fake fluency the host does not have or silently substitute a different language. Still record the preference when the user sets one, disclosing that it cannot be executed here.
Conformance — “done when”
The reply (and any artifact in it) is in Mandarin Chinese, or the host's gap is disclosed — fluency is never faked.
Persistence class: mode-state. Execution report in the reply: required. A user can test any of this by hand — fire the directive, then check the result against the store, the schedule, or the reply itself.