diff --git a/scripts/__init__.py b/scripts/__init__.py
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+# scripts package — exposes bootstrap and maintenance scripts as importable modules.
diff --git a/scripts/build_judge_prompt_cache.py b/scripts/build_judge_prompt_cache.py
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+"""One-off bootstrap: generate committed Chinese judge-prompt cache via RAGAS adapt().
+
+Usage:
+    python -m scripts.build_judge_prompt_cache --language zh [--judge-model <model>]
+
+Runs BasePrompt.adapt("chinese", llm, adapt_instruction=True) for every judge
+prompt of every LLM-scored metric and writes the result to
+configs/judge_prompts/<language>/<metric>__<attr>.json.
+
+Re-run after a RAGAS upgrade to refresh the cache (the localizer will warn
+via 'stale cache' log messages when the source hash changes).
+Requires a working judge LLM configured in settings / LLM profiles.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import asyncio
+import json
+import logging
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any
+
+from rag_eval.compat import ensure_ragas_import_compat
+from rag_eval.metrics.factory import build_metric_registry, build_models
+from rag_eval.metrics.judge_prompts import CACHE_ROOT, METRIC_PROMPT_ATTRS, prompt_source_hash
+from rag_eval.settings import EvaluationSettings
+
+ensure_ragas_import_compat()
+
+logger = logging.getLogger("scripts.build_judge_prompt_cache")
+
+# Map from judge_language short code to the natural-language name used by RAGAS adapt().
+_ADAPT_LANGUAGE: dict[str, str] = {
+    "zh": "chinese",
+    "en": "english",
+}
+
+
+def serialize_prompt(
+    adapted: Any,
+    source_hash: str,
+    metric: str,
+    attr: str,
+    language: str,
+    ragas_version: str,
+) -> dict:
+    """Serialize an adapted prompt instance into the committed cache JSON schema."""
+    return {
+        "metric": metric,
+        "prompt_attr": attr,
+        "language": getattr(adapted, "language", language),
+        "ragas_version": ragas_version,
+        "source_hash": source_hash,
+        "instruction": adapted.instruction,
+        "examples": [
+            {"input": inp.model_dump(), "output": out.model_dump()}
+            for inp, out in adapted.examples
+        ],
+    }
+
+
+async def build_cache(
+    language: str,
+    judge_model: str,
+    embedding_model: str,
+    settings: Any,
+) -> list[Path]:
+    """Generate and write the full prompt cache for one language; return written paths.
+
+    Each prompt is adapted once, serialized, and written atomically (temp file rename
+    is not used — if the script crashes mid-way, re-running overwrites partial files).
+    """
+    import ragas
+
+    target = _ADAPT_LANGUAGE.get(language, language)
+    llm, _embeddings = build_models(judge_model, embedding_model, settings)
+    registry = build_metric_registry(llm, _embeddings)
+    out_dir = CACHE_ROOT / language
+    out_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+
+    written: list[Path] = []
+    for metric_name, attrs in METRIC_PROMPT_ATTRS.items():
+        for attr in attrs:
+            metric = registry[metric_name]
+            prompt = getattr(metric, attr)
+            src_hash = prompt_source_hash(prompt)
+            logger.info("adapting %s.%s …", metric_name, attr)
+            adapted = await prompt.adapt(target, llm, adapt_instruction=True)
+            data = serialize_prompt(adapted, src_hash, metric_name, attr, language, ragas.__version__)
+            path = out_dir / f"{metric_name}__{attr}.json"
+            path.write_text(json.dumps(data, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2), encoding="utf-8")
+            written.append(path)
+            logger.info("  written → %s", path.name)
+
+    return written
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    """CLI entry point: parse args, resolve models, and build the cache."""
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        description="Build the RAGAS judge-prompt translation cache for a target language."
+    )
+    parser.add_argument("--language", default="zh", help="Target language code (default: zh)")
+    parser.add_argument("--judge-model", default=None, help="Override judge model from settings")
+    parser.add_argument("--embedding-model", default=None, help="Override embedding model")
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, format="%(levelname)s  %(message)s")
+    settings = EvaluationSettings()
+    judge_model = args.judge_model or settings.ragas_judge_model
+    embedding_model = args.embedding_model or settings.ragas_embedding_model
+
+    paths = asyncio.run(build_cache(args.language, judge_model, embedding_model, settings))
+    logger.info("Done: %d cache files written to configs/judge_prompts/%s/", len(paths), args.language)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/tests/test_judge_prompt_cache_builder.py b/tests/test_judge_prompt_cache_builder.py
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+"""Tests for the prompt-cache bootstrap script (mocked adapt/LLM)."""
+
+import asyncio
+import json
+
+from pydantic import BaseModel
+
+import scripts.build_judge_prompt_cache as builder
+
+
+class _In(BaseModel):
+    question: str
+
+
+class _Out(BaseModel):
+    statements: list[str]
+
+
+class _FakeAdapted:
+    """Fake adapted prompt returned by prompt.adapt()."""
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.instruction = "中文指令。"
+        self.language = "chinese"
+        self.examples = [(_In(question="问题"), _Out(statements=["陈述"]))]
+
+
+class _FakePrompt:
+    """Fake prompt with async adapt() that returns _FakeAdapted."""
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.input_model = _In
+        self.output_model = _Out
+        self.instruction = "English."
+        self.examples = [(_In(question="q"), _Out(statements=["s"]))]
+        self.language = "english"
+
+    async def adapt(self, target_language, llm, adapt_instruction=False):
+        assert target_language == "chinese"
+        assert adapt_instruction is True
+        return _FakeAdapted()
+
+
+def test_serialize_prompt_shape():
+    """serialize_prompt emits the expected committed cache schema."""
+    data = builder.serialize_prompt(
+        _FakeAdapted(), "hash123", "context_recall", "prompt", "zh", "0.4.3"
+    )
+    assert data["metric"] == "context_recall"
+    assert data["prompt_attr"] == "prompt"
+    assert data["language"] == "chinese"
+    assert data["source_hash"] == "hash123"
+    assert data["instruction"] == "中文指令。"
+    assert data["examples"] == [
+        {"input": {"question": "问题"}, "output": {"statements": ["陈述"]}}
+    ]
+
+
+def test_build_cache_writes_all_files(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+    """build_cache writes one JSON per (metric, attr) under CACHE_ROOT/<language>/."""
+    # Build a fake registry where every prompt attr is a _FakePrompt.
+    fake_registry = {name: type("M", (), {})() for name in builder.METRIC_PROMPT_ATTRS}
+    for name, attrs in builder.METRIC_PROMPT_ATTRS.items():
+        for attr in attrs:
+            setattr(fake_registry[name], attr, _FakePrompt())
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(builder, "build_models", lambda j, e, s: (object(), object()))
+    monkeypatch.setattr(builder, "build_metric_registry", lambda llm, emb: fake_registry)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(builder, "CACHE_ROOT", tmp_path)
+
+    written = asyncio.run(builder.build_cache("zh", "gpt-5", "emb", object()))
+
+    expected_count = sum(len(a) for a in builder.METRIC_PROMPT_ATTRS.values())
+    assert len(written) == expected_count
+
+    sample = tmp_path / "zh" / "context_recall__prompt.json"
+    assert sample.exists()
+    data = json.loads(sample.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
+    assert data["instruction"] == "中文指令。"
+    assert data["metric"] == "context_recall"