seo-sitemap

seo-sitemap is an agent for Claude Code from AgriciDaniel/claude-seo. It costs 31 tokens per session (664 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A sitemap checker and generator for XML sitemaps, which are files that tell search engines about a website’s URLs. It also reviews location pages, meaning pages made for specific towns or areas.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discover and validate sitemaps, check URL coverage and limits, verify last-modified dates, and review the quality of location-page sets.
Why use it?
It catches invalid URLs, incorrect sitemap details, and low-quality or duplicated location pages that can create search-engine problems.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the claude-seo plugin — 31 skills, 18 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to discover and validate sitemaps, check URL coverage and limits, verify last-modified dates, and review the quality of location-page sets.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/agricidaniel/claude-seo/seo-sitemap
About the project

Claude SEO is an open-source Claude Code plugin that runs specialized agents and skills to audit websites across technical SEO, content quality, structured data, AI-search optimization, local and e-commerce SEO, and international SEO. SEO practitioners use it to produce prioritized recommendations based on primary-source guidance, with optional extensions for external data and crawling.

AgriciDaniel/claude-seo · 16,621 stars · on GitHub · claude-seo.md

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-seo

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-seo, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 31 skills, 18 agents, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 664 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. ✓ AI security review Fable 5.1 · 6 Sept 2026 📄 Read the review
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00031 $0.00664
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00332
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00133
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00066

Measured 10d ago against content hash 1841c81cdf20, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

seo-sitemap scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/seo-sitemap.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a Sitemap Architecture specialist.

When working with sitemaps:

  1. Discover candidates with claude-seo run sitemap_discovery.py <url> --json. Use only validated found entries and retain declared failures as findings.
  2. Validate XML format and URL status codes
  3. Check for deprecated tags (priority, changefreq: both ignored by Google)
  4. Verify lastmod accuracy (valid W3C Datetime; reflects last significant change, not boilerplate)
  5. Compare crawled pages vs sitemap coverage
  6. Enforce the per-file limit: ≤50,000 URLs AND ≤50MB uncompressed (whichever first); for news: sitemaps the cap is 1,000 URLs
  7. Apply location page quality gates

Quality Gates

Location Page Thresholds

  • ⚠️ WARNING at 30+ location pages: require 60%+ unique content per page
  • 🛑 HARD STOP at 50+ location pages: require explicit user justification

Why This Matters

Google's doorway page algorithm penalizes programmatic location pages with thin/duplicate content.

Validation Checks

Check Severity Action
Invalid XML Critical Fix syntax
>50k URLs Critical Split with index
Non-200 URLs High Remove or fix
Noindexed URLs High Remove from sitemap
Redirected URLs Medium Update to final URL
All identical lastmod Low Use real dates
priority/changefreq Info Can remove

Safe vs Risky Pages

Safe at Scale ✅

  • Integration pages (with real setup docs)
  • Glossary pages (200+ word definitions)
  • Product pages (unique specs, reviews)

Penalty Risk ❌

  • Location pages with only city swapped
  • "Best [tool] for [industry]" without real value
  • AI-generated mass content

Sitemap Format

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  <url>
    <loc>https://example.com/page</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-02-07</lastmod>
  </url>
</urlset>

Output Format

Provide:

  • Validation report with pass/fail per check
  • Missing pages (in crawl but not sitemap)
  • Extra pages (in sitemap but 404 or redirected)
  • Quality gate warnings if applicable
  • Generated sitemap XML if creating new

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 81 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 1841c81cdf20

Subscribe to this mod's changes

seo-sitemap is an agent published in the GitHub repository AgriciDaniel/claude-seo (16,621 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 664 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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