seomachine: Command for Claude Code

.claude/commands/scrub.md

scrub is a command for Claude Code from TheCraigHewitt/seomachine. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,237 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A command that cleans Markdown files by removing invisible characters, unusual spacing, and certain punctuation patterns associated with generated text.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use `/scrub` with a Markdown file path to clean the file and see statistics about the changes made.
Why use it?
It helps remove formatting artifacts that may be hard to see but can affect how content looks or behaves.

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 →

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/scrub.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheCraigHewitt/seomachine

Made for: Claude Code.

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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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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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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 1,237 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.01237
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00619
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00247
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00124

Measured 9d ago against content hash 859b30964a52, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

scrub scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

Content​ marketing​ is​ a​ powerful​ strategy—businesses can reach global audiences—and convert more customers. ``` (Contains zero-width spaces after words and em-dashes) **After:** ``` Content marketing is a powerful st
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • scrub — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
.claude/commands/scrub.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scrub Command

Use this command to remove invisible AI-generated watermarks and telltale patterns from markdown content files.

Usage

/scrub [file path]

What This Command Does

  1. Removes invisible Unicode watermarks commonly embedded by AI systems
  2. Replaces em-dashes with contextually appropriate punctuation
  3. Cleans up whitespace and formatting artifacts
  4. Makes content appear naturally human-written
  5. Provides statistics on changes made

Why This Matters

AI language models often embed invisible Unicode characters as watermarks or identifiers in generated content. Additionally, AI tends to overuse certain punctuation patterns like em-dashes. This command removes these telltale signs to make content appear more naturally written.

Process

1. Watermark Detection & Removal

The scrubber identifies and removes several types of invisible Unicode characters:

Invisible Characters Removed
  • Zero-width spaces (U+200B): Often inserted between words
  • Byte Order Marks (U+FEFF): BOM characters that shouldn't appear in content
  • Zero-width non-joiners (U+200C): Invisible formatting characters
  • Word joiners (U+2060): Non-breaking invisible characters
  • Soft hyphens (U+00AD): Optional hyphenation points
  • Narrow no-break spaces (U+202F): Special spacing characters
  • All format-control characters: Unicode category Cf characters

2. Em-Dash Replacement

AI-generated content tends to overuse em-dashes (—). The scrubber intelligently replaces them based on context:

Contextual Rules
  • Attribution: Replaces with comma when used for quotes or attribution

    • Example: "Text — Author Name" becomes "Text, Author Name"
  • Independent Clauses: Replaces with semicolon when joining complete thoughts

    • Example: "First clause — second clause" becomes "First clause; second clause"
  • Strong Breaks: Replaces with period when separating distinct sentences

    • Example: "Sentence one — Sentence two" becomes "Sentence one. Sentence two"

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 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 · 157 lines · 0 tokens per session scan C 859b30964a52

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scrub 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 1,237 tokens. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.