featured-snippet

featured-snippet is a skill for Claude Code from ariadoss/superskills. It costs 97 tokens per session (2,202 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of featured-snippet, MIT.

A guide for structuring web content so search engines can show a short answer above the normal results. A featured snippet is that highlighted answer, sometimes shown as a paragraph, list, or table.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to optimize answers for question-based searches, including definition, list, table, and People Also Ask queries.
Why use it?
It helps content answer common questions directly and use a structure that search systems can extract and display.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the superskills plugin — 197 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to optimize answers for question-based searches, including definition, list, table, and People Also Ask queries.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ariadoss/superskills/featured-snippet
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add ariadoss/superskills --skill featured-snippet
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ariadoss/superskills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install superskills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 197 skills.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for featured-snippet

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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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ariadoss/superskills/featured-snippet"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ariadoss/superskills/featured-snippet.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,202 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00097 $0.02202
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01101
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00440
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00220

Measured 6d ago against content hash d10d83e4a9b8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

featured-snippet 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 6d 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

This is a copy

100% identical to featured-snippet — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

marketing-skills/seo/on-page/featured-snippet/SKILL.md · 134 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 134 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Guides optimization for Featured Snippets (Position Zero)—direct answers displayed above organic results. Featured snippets appear on ~19% of queries; by 2025, AI Overviews replaced many, but snippet optimization still supports AI citation and PAA. See serp-features for full SERP context.

When invoking: On first use, if helpful, open with 1–2 sentences on what this skill covers and why it matters, then provide the main output. On subsequent use or when the user asks to skip, go directly to the main output.

Scope

  • Featured Snippet formats: Paragraph, list, table
  • Content structure: Answer-first, H2/H3, semantic HTML
  • Query targeting: How, what, why; positions 2–5 opportunity
  • AI Overviews: Layered content for both snippets and AI citation

Current Landscape (2025–2026)

  • Featured snippets appear on ~19% of search queries
  • AI Overviews replaced 83%+ of featured snippets in many regions; appear in ~47% of US searches
  • When AI Overviews show, 83% of searches may end without clicks (zero-click)—goal shifts to citation as well as CTR. Featured Snippets also cause zero-click when the answer suffices. See serp-features for zero-click by feature.
  • Position zero still captures ~35% of clicks when snippets appear; pages with snippets see ~8% higher organic CTR
  • Optimize for both traditional snippets and AI Overviews

Featured Snippet vs AI Overview

Not the same. Featured snippets pull a direct passage from a single webpage. AI Overviews generate multi-source summaries using AI. When both appear, featured snippets still occupy a highly visible spot. Not every query triggers AI Overview—snippet optimization remains valuable. Semrush

Snippet Formats & Share

Format Share Use Optimization
Paragraph ~70% Definition, "what is," "why" 40–60 words; direct answer after H2
List ~19% How-to, steps, options <ol> or <ul>; semantic HTML
Table ~6% Comparisons, stats, specs Clear headers; target keywords in column/row headers
Video Rare Visual how-to Video schema; timestamps/chapters; see video-optimization

Read the full file on GitHub · 134 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. 6d ago First seen · 134 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A d10d83e4a9b8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

featured-snippet is a skill published in the GitHub repository ariadoss/superskills (9 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 2,202 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to featured-snippet, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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