keyword-research

keyword-research is a skill for Claude Code from aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills. It costs 63 tokens per session (1,987 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research process for finding and organizing the search terms people use online. It evaluates search demand, ranking difficulty, purpose, and related topic groups.

In plain words
What is it for?
Discovering SEO keywords, grouping them into main topics and related pages, and choosing quick-win, growth, or AI-search opportunities.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork about what to write or which phrases to target with a prioritized list based on available data.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; built for openclaw.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the aaron-marketing plugin — 120 skills shipped together , and of aaron-marketing

Good fit Discovering SEO keywords, grouping them into main topics and related pages, and choosing quick-win, growth, or AI-search opportunities.

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About the project

aaron-marketing-skills is a collection of 120 AI-agent skills covering marketing work such as brand narrative, search optimization, social media, email, advertising, influencer campaigns, and launches. Marketers and agent users can install it as a plugin, use its portable skills, or run its described bot team. The catalogue entries are components of this marketing workflow.

aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills · 2,767 stars · on GitHub · aaronmarketing.ai

Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills
Claude Code
/plugin install aaron-marketing

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aaron-marketing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 120 skills.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,987 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 2 Sept 2026
  • Snyk warn 2 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00063 $0.01987
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00993
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00397
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00199

Measured 9d ago against content hash 2b47555b8ce9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

keyword-research 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.

seo-geo/survey/keyword-research/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Keyword Research

Discovers, scores, and clusters keywords for SEO and GEO planning.

Quick Start

Research keywords for [topic/product/service]
What keywords is [competitor URL] ranking for that I should target?

Skill Contract

Expected output: a prioritized keyword brief plus the standard handoff summary for memory/research/.

  • Reads: topic or seed keyword, target market/language, business goal, site DR, and any user-provided or tool metrics.
  • Writes: a user-facing research deliverable and reusable summary.
  • Promotes: durable keyword priorities, competitor facts, and pending strategy decisions to memory/hot-cache.md, memory/open-loops.md, and memory/research/.
  • Done when: every shortlisted keyword carries volume + difficulty + intent, each with source ref, observation time/window, market/language, and evidence label; an applicable missing value is Unknown with its gap reason, never N/A; keywords are grouped into pillar + cluster hubs; and the deliverable names at least 3 prioritized Quick Win / Growth / GEO opportunities.
  • Primary next skill: competitor-analysis when the keyword set is ready for market comparison.

Handoff Summary

Emit the standard shape from skill-contract.md §Handoff Summary Format.

Data Sources

Optional integrations: ~~SEO tool, ~~search console. Without tools, ask for seed keywords, audience, goals, and any known metrics. See CONNECTORS.md.

Zero-dependency local helper (no tool needed): python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/connectors/suggest.py" "<seed>" --expand harvests free keyword ideas from Google Autocomplete (⚠️ unofficial endpoint). Search volume / difficulty still needs ~~SEO tool or own Search Console data. See scripts/connectors/README.md.

Keyless live-SERP sampling: python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/connectors/firecrawl.py" search "<candidate keyword>" --limit 10 (Firecrawl keyless free tier, ~1,000 credits/mo, no key needed) shows who actually ranks for a candidate — feed the top-10 domains and formats into the intent check and the difficulty read as Measured evidence instead of guessing. Volume still needs ~~SEO tool or GSC.

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 111 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 2b47555b8ce9

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keyword-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills (2,767 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,987 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.