seomachine: Command for Claude Code

.claude/commands/publish-draft.md

publish-draft is a command for Claude Code from TheCraigHewitt/seomachine. It costs 0 tokens per session (839 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that converts a Markdown draft into a WordPress draft through the WordPress REST API, a web interface for creating and updating WordPress content. It also transfers selected SEO fields, categories, and tags.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to publish a draft as a blog post, page, or registered custom content type, convert Markdown to HTML, set SEO fields, apply taxonomies, and receive an editing link.
Why use it?
It removes repetitive copying and formatting when moving prepared articles into WordPress while preserving their publishing metadata.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is TheCraigHewitt/seomachine's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on seomachine itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything seomachine configures →

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python data_sources/modules/wordpress_publisher.py "$FILE_PATH" --type "$POST_TYPE".

About the project

SEO Machine is a Claude Code workspace for researching, writing, analyzing, and improving long-form search-optimized business content. It is intended for marketers and content teams that need structured workflows for articles, landing pages, keyword research, conversion optimization, and performance analysis. Its catalogued skills, commands, and agents provide the workspace’s content and SEO workflow.

TheCraigHewitt/seomachine · 7,425 stars · on GitHub · seomachine.io

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to TheCraigHewitt/seomachine. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TheCraigHewitt/seomachine/main/.claude/commands/publish-draft.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheCraigHewitt/seomachine

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 839 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 $0.00000 $0.00839
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00419
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00168
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00084

Measured 9d ago against content hash fb4895fb3792, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

publish-draft 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 9d 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.

.claude/commands/publish-draft.md · 123 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 123 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Publish Draft to WordPress

Publishes a draft article from this project to WordPress as a Draft, with all SEO metadata auto-populated.

Usage

/publish-draft [filename] [--type post|page|custom]

Examples

Create a blog post (default):

/publish-draft drafts/content-marketing-guide-2025-12-10.md

Create a page:

/publish-draft drafts/pricing-comparison.md --type page

Create a custom post type:

/publish-draft drafts/product-comparison.md --type compare

Post Types

  • post - Standard blog post (default) - supports categories and tags
  • page - WordPress page - no categories/tags
  • Custom types (e.g., compare) - must be registered in WordPress with REST API support

What This Command Does

  1. Parses the draft file - Extracts all metadata from frontmatter
  2. Converts Markdown to HTML - Formats content for WordPress
  3. Creates WordPress draft - Posts via REST API with status "draft"
  4. Sets Yoast SEO fields:
    • SEO Title (from Meta Title)
    • Meta Description
    • Focus Keyphrase (from Target Keyword)
  5. Assigns taxonomy - Categories and Tags if specified
  6. Returns edit URL - Direct link to edit the post in WordPress

Metadata Mapping

Draft Field WordPress/Yoast Field
H1 Title Post Title
Meta Title Yoast SEO Title
Meta Description Yoast Meta Description + Excerpt
Target Keyword Yoast Focus Keyphrase
URL Slug Post Slug
Category Post Categories
Tags Post Tags
Content Post Content (HTML)

Required Environment Variables

These must be set in .env:

WORDPRESS_URL=https://yoursite.com
WORDPRESS_USERNAME=your-username
WORDPRESS_APP_PASSWORD=xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx

Getting an Application Password

  1. Log into WordPress Admin
  2. Go to Users > Your Profile
  3. Scroll to "Application Passwords"
  4. Enter a name (e.g., "SEO Machine")
  5. Click "Add New Application Password"
  6. Copy the generated password to your .env file

Read the full file on GitHub · 123 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. 9d ago First seen · 123 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A fb4895fb3792

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publish-draft is a command published in the GitHub repository TheCraigHewitt/seomachine (7,425 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 839 tokens. 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.