diff --git a/rag_eval/metrics/judge_prompts.py b/rag_eval/metrics/judge_prompts.py
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+"""Localize RAGAS collections judge prompts to a target language (e.g. Chinese).
+
+Loads committed, pre-translated prompt cache files from
+configs/judge_prompts/<language>/<metric>__<attr>.json and overrides each
+metric's prompt instance attributes in place. Missing, corrupt, or schema-drifted
+cache entries degrade gracefully to the built-in English prompt so scoring never
+breaks.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import logging
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any
+
+logger = logging.getLogger("rag_eval.metrics.judge_prompts")
+
+_REPO_ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2]
+CACHE_ROOT = _REPO_ROOT / "configs" / "judge_prompts"
+
+# Metric name -> prompt instance attribute names holding a BasePrompt.
+# Verified against RAGAS 0.4.3 collections source; semantic_similarity has none.
+METRIC_PROMPT_ATTRS: dict[str, tuple[str, ...]] = {
+    "faithfulness": ("statement_generator_prompt", "nli_statement_prompt"),
+    "answer_relevancy": ("prompt",),
+    "context_recall": ("prompt",),
+    "context_precision": ("prompt",),
+    "noise_sensitivity": ("statement_prompt", "faithfulness_prompt"),
+    "factual_correctness": ("prompt", "nli_prompt"),
+}
+
+# In-memory memoization of parsed cache files, keyed by (language, metric, attr).
+_MEMO: dict[tuple[str, str, str], dict | None] = {}
+
+
+@dataclass
+class LocalizationReport:
+    """Outcome of a localize_pipeline_prompts() call, for logging and tests."""
+
+    language: str
+    applied: list[str] = field(default_factory=list)
+    skipped: list[str] = field(default_factory=list)
+    warnings: list[str] = field(default_factory=list)
+
+
+def reset_cache() -> None:
+    """Clear the in-memory parsed-cache memo (used by tests)."""
+    _MEMO.clear()
+
+
+def prompt_source_hash(prompt: Any) -> str:
+    """Return a stable sha256 of a prompt's English instruction + examples."""
+    examples = [
+        {"input": inp.model_dump(), "output": out.model_dump()}
+        for inp, out in getattr(prompt, "examples", [])
+    ]
+    payload = json.dumps(
+        {"instruction": getattr(prompt, "instruction", ""), "examples": examples},
+        ensure_ascii=False,
+        sort_keys=True,
+    )
+    return hashlib.sha256(payload.encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _cache_path(language: str, metric: str, attr: str) -> Path:
+    """Resolve the cache file path for one (language, metric, attr) triple."""
+    return CACHE_ROOT / language / f"{metric}__{attr}.json"
+
+
+def _load_cache_file(language: str, metric: str, attr: str) -> dict | None:
+    """Load and memoize a cache file; return None if absent or unreadable."""
+    key = (language, metric, attr)
+    if key in _MEMO:
+        return _MEMO[key]
+    path = _cache_path(language, metric, attr)
+    data: dict | None
+    try:
+        data = json.loads(path.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
+    except FileNotFoundError:
+        data = None
+    except (OSError, json.JSONDecodeError) as exc:  # corrupt file: degrade to English
+        logger.warning("[judge_prompts] cache read failed %s: %s", path, exc)
+        data = None
+    _MEMO[key] = data
+    return data
+
+
+def apply_localized_prompt(prompt: Any, data: dict) -> None:
+    """Override a live prompt's instruction/examples/language from a cache dict.
+
+    Examples are rebuilt using the live prompt's input/output models, so an
+    upstream schema change raises here and is caught by the caller (which then
+    keeps the English prompt).
+    """
+    examples = [
+        (prompt.input_model(**ex["input"]), prompt.output_model(**ex["output"]))
+        for ex in data.get("examples", [])
+    ]
+    prompt.instruction = data["instruction"]
+    prompt.examples = examples
+    prompt.language = data.get("language", "chinese")
+
+
+def localize_pipeline_prompts(registry: dict[str, Any], language: str) -> LocalizationReport:
+    """Override judge prompts in `registry` with cached `language` translations.
+
+    `registry` maps metric name -> RAGAS metric instance. Only metrics in
+    METRIC_PROMPT_ATTRS are touched; unknown metrics and semantic_similarity are
+    left untouched. English ("en"/"english"/empty) is a no-op.
+    """
+    report = LocalizationReport(language=language)
+    normalized = (language or "en").strip().lower()
+    if normalized in ("", "en", "english"):
+        return report
+
+    for metric_name, attrs in METRIC_PROMPT_ATTRS.items():
+        metric = registry.get(metric_name)
+        if metric is None:
+            continue
+        for attr in attrs:
+            tag = f"{metric_name}.{attr}"
+            prompt = getattr(metric, attr, None)
+            if prompt is None:
+                report.skipped.append(tag)
+                continue
+            data = _load_cache_file(normalized, metric_name, attr)
+            if data is None:
+                report.skipped.append(tag)
+                report.warnings.append(f"missing cache for {tag}")
+                continue
+            # Drift detection: warn if the English source changed since caching.
+            if data.get("source_hash") and data["source_hash"] != prompt_source_hash(prompt):
+                report.warnings.append(f"stale cache for {tag} (regenerate)")
+            try:
+                apply_localized_prompt(prompt, data)
+                report.applied.append(tag)
+            except Exception as exc:  # noqa: BLE001  schema drift -> keep English
+                report.warnings.append(f"apply failed for {tag}: {exc}; kept english")
+
+    if report.warnings:
+        logger.warning(
+            "[judge_prompts] language=%s applied=%d skipped=%d warnings=%s",
+            normalized, len(report.applied), len(report.skipped), report.warnings,
+        )
+    else:
+        logger.info(
+            "[judge_prompts] language=%s applied=%d", normalized, len(report.applied)
+        )
+    return report
diff --git a/tests/test_judge_prompt_localizer.py b/tests/test_judge_prompt_localizer.py
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+"""Tests for the judge-prompt localizer (no RAGAS dependency; uses fake prompts)."""
+
+import json
+
+from pydantic import BaseModel
+
+from rag_eval.metrics import judge_prompts as jp
+
+
+class _In(BaseModel):
+    question: str
+
+
+class _Out(BaseModel):
+    statements: list[str]
+
+
+class _FakePrompt:
+    """Minimal stand-in for a RAGAS BasePrompt with overridable attributes."""
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.input_model = _In
+        self.output_model = _Out
+        self.instruction = "English instruction."
+        self.examples = [(_In(question="q"), _Out(statements=["s"]))]
+        self.language = "english"
+
+
+class _FakeMetric:
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.prompt = _FakePrompt()
+
+
+def _cache_dict(prompt):
+    """Build a valid cache dict for the given fake prompt."""
+    return {
+        "metric": "context_recall",
+        "prompt_attr": "prompt",
+        "language": "chinese",
+        "ragas_version": "0.4.3",
+        "source_hash": jp.prompt_source_hash(prompt),
+        "instruction": "中文指令。",
+        "examples": [{"input": {"question": "问题"}, "output": {"statements": ["陈述"]}}],
+    }
+
+
+def setup_function(_):
+    jp.reset_cache()
+
+
+def test_apply_localized_prompt_overrides_instruction_and_examples():
+    """apply_localized_prompt swaps instruction/examples and rebuilds example models."""
+    prompt = _FakePrompt()
+    jp.apply_localized_prompt(prompt, _cache_dict(prompt))
+    assert prompt.instruction == "中文指令。"
+    assert prompt.examples[0][0].question == "问题"
+    assert prompt.examples[0][1].statements == ["陈述"]
+    assert prompt.language == "chinese"
+
+
+def test_localize_english_is_noop():
+    """language='en' leaves the registry untouched."""
+    metric = _FakeMetric()
+    report = jp.localize_pipeline_prompts({"context_recall": metric}, "en")
+    assert report.applied == []
+    assert metric.prompt.instruction == "English instruction."
+
+
+def test_localize_applies_from_cache_file(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+    """localize reads <root>/zh/context_recall__prompt.json and applies it."""
+    metric = _FakeMetric()
+    root = tmp_path / "configs" / "judge_prompts"
+    (root / "zh").mkdir(parents=True)
+    (root / "zh" / "context_recall__prompt.json").write_text(
+        json.dumps(_cache_dict(metric.prompt), ensure_ascii=False), encoding="utf-8"
+    )
+    monkeypatch.setattr(jp, "CACHE_ROOT", root)
+    report = jp.localize_pipeline_prompts({"context_recall": metric}, "zh")
+    assert "context_recall.prompt" in report.applied
+    assert metric.prompt.instruction == "中文指令。"
+
+
+def test_localize_missing_cache_keeps_english(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+    """A missing cache file degrades gracefully to the English prompt with a warning."""
+    metric = _FakeMetric()
+    monkeypatch.setattr(jp, "CACHE_ROOT", tmp_path / "empty")
+    report = jp.localize_pipeline_prompts({"context_recall": metric}, "zh")
+    assert metric.prompt.instruction == "English instruction."
+    assert "context_recall.prompt" in report.skipped
+    assert report.warnings
+
+
+def test_localize_stale_hash_warns_but_applies(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+    """A source_hash mismatch still applies Chinese but records a stale warning."""
+    metric = _FakeMetric()
+    data = _cache_dict(metric.prompt)
+    data["source_hash"] = "deadbeef"
+    root = tmp_path / "configs" / "judge_prompts"
+    (root / "zh").mkdir(parents=True)
+    (root / "zh" / "context_recall__prompt.json").write_text(
+        json.dumps(data, ensure_ascii=False), encoding="utf-8"
+    )
+    monkeypatch.setattr(jp, "CACHE_ROOT", root)
+    report = jp.localize_pipeline_prompts({"context_recall": metric}, "zh")
+    assert metric.prompt.instruction == "中文指令。"
+    assert any("stale" in w for w in report.warnings)
+
+
+def test_cache_memoized(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+    """A second localize call does not re-read the file (in-memory memo)."""
+    metric = _FakeMetric()
+    root = tmp_path / "configs" / "judge_prompts"
+    (root / "zh").mkdir(parents=True)
+    path = root / "zh" / "context_recall__prompt.json"
+    path.write_text(json.dumps(_cache_dict(metric.prompt), ensure_ascii=False), encoding="utf-8")
+    monkeypatch.setattr(jp, "CACHE_ROOT", root)
+    jp.localize_pipeline_prompts({"context_recall": _FakeMetric()}, "zh")
+    path.unlink()  # delete file; memo should still serve the parsed data
+    metric2 = _FakeMetric()
+    report = jp.localize_pipeline_prompts({"context_recall": metric2}, "zh")
+    assert "context_recall.prompt" in report.applied