seomachine: Command for Claude Code

.claude/commands/research-serp.md

research-serp is a command for Claude Code from TheCraigHewitt/seomachine. It costs 0 tokens per session (599 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that studies the pages appearing near the top of Google for a chosen keyword. It creates a brief describing the content format, search intent, typical length, search features, freshness, and competition.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before writing or updating content to choose its format, structure, length, and coverage based on the search results.
Why use it?
It helps replace guesswork with evidence about what searchers and Google currently expect for a topic.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: positional $N argument.

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 →

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 · 7,427 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/research-serp.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 599 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 $0.00599
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00300
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00120
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00060

Measured 11d ago against content hash 281ab90d6a5b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-serp 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 11d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.claude/commands/research-serp.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research SERP Command

Deep SERP analysis for a specific keyword to understand what Google wants.

Usage

/research-serp "keyword phrase"

What This Command Does

Analyzes the top 10 ranking results for a keyword to provide detailed content requirements:

  • Content type patterns (listicle, how-to, guide, etc.)
  • Average word count and recommended length
  • SERP features present (featured snippet, PAA, video, etc.)
  • Freshness requirements
  • Competitive difficulty
  • Search intent
  • Common content structure

Generates comprehensive content brief for creating or updating content.

Process

Execute SERP analysis for a keyword:

python3 research_serp_analysis.py "your target keyword"

This will:

  1. Fetch top 20 organic results from DataForSEO
  2. Analyze content patterns in top 10
  3. Detect content types from titles
  4. Fetch word counts for each result
  5. Identify SERP features
  6. Analyze search intent
  7. Assess competitive difficulty
  8. Generate content brief
  9. Create report: research/serp-analysis-[keyword].md

Output

The report includes:

Content Requirements

  • Recommended word count (based on top 10 average + 10%)
  • Dominant content type (what format works)
  • Content type distribution

SERP Features

  • Featured snippet opportunity
  • People Also Ask questions
  • Video/image requirements
  • Other SERP features present

Content Brief

  • Target specifications (word count, type, tone)
  • Must-have elements
  • Recommended structure
  • SERP features to target
  • Freshness requirements

Competitive Analysis

  • Domain authority mix
  • Difficulty assessment
  • Timeframe expectations

Action Plan

Step-by-step process from research to publishing

Example Use Cases

Before creating new content:

/research-serp "best project management tools"

Understand: Is this a listicle? How long should it be? What features to include?

Before updating existing content:

/research-serp "how to choose the right software"

Check if SERP patterns have changed, update to match current expectations

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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. 11d ago First seen · 102 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 281ab90d6a5b

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research-serp is a command published in the GitHub repository TheCraigHewitt/seomachine (7,427 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 599 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.