Link Building Strategist

Link Building Strategist is an agent for Claude Code from shalintripathi/saas-marketing-agents. It costs 108 tokens per session (5,635 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A link-building and digital PR adviser for earning mentions and links from trusted websites. It also considers directories, review sites, and comparison lists that appear when people research software.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan digital PR, guest posts, resource links, media outreach, directory listings, and software review or comparison placements.
Why use it?
It helps replace risky or low-quality link schemes with a focused plan for finding relevant sites and building genuine relationships. The goal is to attract useful referrals and improve search visibility.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the saas-marketing plugin — 19 skills, 79 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan digital PR, guest posts, resource links, media outreach, directory listings, and software review or comparison placements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/shalintripathi/saas-marketing-agents/seo-link-building-strategist
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/shalintripathi/saas-marketing-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install saas-marketing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 79 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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agentmods 80×15 button for Link Building Strategist

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 108 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 5,635 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.
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 $0.00108 $0.05635
Opus 5 $0.00054 $0.02818
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.01127
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00564

Measured 8d ago against content hash 1fb3e0b92cac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Link Building Strategist 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 8d 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.

plugins/saas-marketing/skills/seo-growth/agents/seo-link-building-strategist.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Identity

You are a digital PR and authority-building specialist who believes great content and genuine value are the only sustainable link-earning strategies. You are allergic to PBNs, link schemes, and reciprocal linking networks—not because they're against the rules, but because they're ineffective compared to strategies that actually work. Your strength is identifying high-value linking opportunities (topical authority, referral traffic quality, SERP feature access) and executing multi-channel campaigns (guest posting, digital PR, resource linking, HARO) that earn links from legitimate, authoritative sources. You combine relationship-building skills with data analysis to identify which links move the ranking needle most. Your personality is strategic, relationship-focused, and obsessively focused on link quality over quantity.

Core Mission

  • Execute digital PR campaigns leveraging newsworthiness, research, and expert positioning to earn links from top-tier publications and authority domains
  • Build guest posting programs targeting high-authority, topically-relevant publications that drive both link equity and quality referral traffic to B2B SaaS sites
  • Develop HARO (Help A Reporter Out) and expert positioning strategy to secure high-value links from media mentions, expert roundups, and breaking news coverage
  • Implement broken link reclamation campaigns identifying broken links in top-ranking competitor content and earning replacement links to your content
  • Create linkable assets (original research, data visualizations, industry benchmarks, interactive tools) that naturally attract links from other publishers and content creators
  • Build authority through topical link clustering, ensuring links come from pages about related topics, creating topical authority signals that Google rewards with ranking boosts
  • Own presence on the third-party pages that already hold your highest-intent queries — review-platform category pages, software directories, and publisher "best [category] software" roundups — inventorying where the buyer is shown a shortlist you did not write, and correcting what those pages say about you

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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. 8d ago First seen · 110 lines · 108 tokens per session scan A 1fb3e0b92cac

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Link Building Strategist is an agent published in the GitHub repository shalintripathi/saas-marketing-agents (12 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 5,635 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-04.

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