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.
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.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TheCraigHewitt/seomachine/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheCraigHewitt/seomachineWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/thecraighewitt/seomachine/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/thecraighewitt/seomachine/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/thecraighewitt/seomachine/claude-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/thecraighewitt/seomachine/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/thecraighewitt/seomachine/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.01368 | $0.01368 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00547 | $0.00547 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00274 | $0.00274 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00137 | $0.00137 |
Grade A, and why
seomachine CLAUDE.md 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 2d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
CLAUDE.md
This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.
Project Overview
SEO Machine is an open-source Claude Code workspace for creating SEO-optimized blog content. It combines custom commands, specialized agents, and Python-based analytics to research, write, optimize, and publish articles for any business.
Setup
pip install -r data_sources/requirements.txt
API credentials are configured in data_sources/config/.env (GA4, GSC, DataForSEO, WordPress, and optionally Exa). GA4 service account credentials go in credentials/ga4-credentials.json.
Commands
All commands are defined in .claude/commands/ and invoked as slash commands:
/research [topic]- Keyword/competitor research, generates brief inresearch//write [topic]- Create full article indrafts/, auto-triggers optimization agents/rewrite [topic]- Update existing content, saves torewrites//optimize [file]- Final SEO polish pass/analyze-existing [URL or file]- Content health audit/performance-review- Analytics-driven content priorities/publish-draft [file]- Publish to WordPress via REST API/article [topic]- Simplified article creation/cluster [topic]- Build complete topic cluster strategy with pillar + supporting articles + linking map/priorities- Content prioritization matrix/research-serp,/research-gaps,/research-trending,/research-performance,/research-topics- Specialized research commands/research-ai-citations [topic]- AI citation audit: generates prompts, clusters them, audits which sources AI cites/repurpose [file]- Adapts article for LinkedIn, Medium, Reddit, Quora distribution/scrub [file]- Removes invisible Unicode watermarks and AI telltale patterns; auto-run by/write,/rewrite,/article,/repurpose/landing-write,/landing-audit,/landing-research,/landing-publish,/landing-competitor- Landing page commands
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.
- 2d ago Changed · +6 lines · +166 tokens per session 75e78d200b91
- 1mo ago First seen · 106 lines · 1,202 tokens per session scan A 5279e3516286
seomachine CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository TheCraigHewitt/seomachine (7,540 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,368 tokens to every session, about $0.0055 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.
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