# Do coding agents recommend Symfony Translation? > Symfony Translation was chosen in 8% of 224 judged internationalization sessions, ranking third. Measured with Claude Code, Codex and Cursor. Source: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-symfony-translation Published: 2026-09-11 Publisher: Armature, Inc. (https://armature.tech) --- > Symfony Translation was chosen in 8% of 224 judged internationalization sessions, ranking third. It was also raised as a candidate in 2 further sessions without being chosen. This page reports what happened when Claude Code, Codex and Cursor had to solve a problem in internationalization inside a realistic codebase. Not what a chat assistant says about Symfony Translation. What an agent actually installed. One thing to read first: every one of those wins came from a **single codebase**. That is a result about one repository rather than about internationalization in general, and the splits below cannot separate the two. Treat them as a description of that repository. ## The numbers | | | | --- | --- | | Category | Internationalization | | Sessions in the category | 224 | | Sessions where Symfony Translation was chosen | 18 | | Install share | 8% | | Rank in category | 3 of 20 | | Codebases it won in | 1 | | Raised as a candidate, not chosen | 2 | | Chosen when considered | 90% | | Site | symfony.com | ## By agent With 18 wins spread across three agents, the rates below are small numbers and a difference between them is not yet a finding. They are here because the direction is worth knowing, not because the gap is established. | Agent | Sessions | Chose Symfony Translation | Share | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Claude Code | 77 | 6 | 8% | | Codex | 78 | 6 | 8% | | Cursor | 69 | 6 | 9% | ## By who was asking Symfony Translation does much better with one kind of buyer than another. It won 26% of sessions asked as junior developer and 0% of those asked as enterprise team. | Who is asking | Sessions | Chose Symfony Translation | Share | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Vibe coder | 54 | 0 | 0% | | Junior developer | 69 | 18 | 26% | | Senior engineer | 47 | 0 | 0% | | Enterprise team | 54 | 0 | 0% | ## What Symfony Translation was up against The full ranking in internationalization, from the same sessions: | # | Product | Runs won | Share | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | next-intl | 57 | 25% | | 2 | Django translation framework | 45 | 20% | | 3 | Symfony Translation **(this page)** | 18 | 8% | | 4 | Paraglide JS | 18 | 8% | | 5 | Rails I18n | 17 | 8% | | 6 | i18next | 14 | 6% | | 7 | Built in-house (no product adopted) | 12 | 5% | | 8 | Vue I18n | 10 | 4% | ## What this means Agents almost never raise Symfony Translation without choosing it: 2 sessions raised against 18 chosen. When it gets considered, it usually wins. The constraint is how rarely it gets considered at all, which is a presence problem: templates, framework integrations and pages that answer the configuration and production questions agents actually search for. ## Where these numbers come from The 224 sessions in internationalization are part of a published set of 6,455, run with real coding agents inside realistic codebases and judged blind. The full method is on one page: [how we measured this](/library/how-we-measured-this). Every internationalization run can be replayed on [the board](/leaderboards/internationalization). If you work on Symfony Translation: the judge recorded a reason for every session where it was raised and passed over. Those reasons are in the transcripts. ## Common questions ### Do coding agents recommend Symfony Translation? Yes. Symfony Translation was chosen in 18 of the 224 judged sessions in internationalization, a 8% install share, ranking third in its category. ### Does Claude Code recommend Symfony Translation? In 6 of the 77 sessions in internationalization run with Claude Code, which is 8%. ### Do different coding agents treat Symfony Translation differently? Not much. The three agents chose it at similar rates, between 8% and 9% of their runs. ### How was this measured? Real coding agents at pinned versions were run in sandboxes inside 63 realistic codebases and asked to solve real tasks. A simulated project owner approved or questioned each recommendation before any code was written, and a judge from a model family that builds none of the agents read every session blind. ### How often is Symfony Translation considered but not chosen? It was raised as a candidate in 2 sessions without being chosen, and chosen in 18. That is a 90% conversion from considered to chosen. ## Read next - [How to get picked for internationalization by coding agents](https://armature.tech/library/internationalization-coding-agents-playbook) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/internationalization-coding-agents-playbook.md) - [Do coding agents recommend next-intl?](https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-next-intl) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-next-intl.md) - [Do coding agents recommend Django translation framework?](https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-django-translation-framework) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-django-translation-framework.md) - [Do Claude Code, Codex and Cursor pick the same tools?](https://armature.tech/library/do-claude-code-and-codex-agree) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/do-claude-code-and-codex-agree.md) --- Armature helps software products get discovered and used by coding agents. 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