aeo

aeo is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cass-2003/local-workflow-skill. It costs 169 tokens per session (2,644 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for making web content easier for AI answer systems to understand and cite as a trustworthy source. It differs from SEO, which mainly aims to improve a page’s position in search results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan or audit content for AI-first search, identify missing trust and structure signals, and track whether systems such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, or Mistral cite the content.
Why use it?
It gives content teams a way to check whether pages contain clear facts, structured information, and credible source signals that AI-generated answers can use.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the aeo plugin — 1 skill shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cass-2003/local-workflow-skill/aeo
Any agent
npx skills add cass-2003/local-workflow-skill --skill aeo
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cass-2003/local-workflow-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install aeo, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 169 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,644 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00169 $0.02644
Opus 5 $0.00084 $0.01322
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00529
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00264

Measured 5d ago against content hash 763a655859ef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aeo 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/aeo_audit.py, scripts/aeo_optimizer.py, scripts/citation_tracker.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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:

  • aeo — 100% identical, 1 lines differ
skills/answer-engine-optimization/community/aeo/SKILL.md · 228 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 228 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)

Get your content cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Mistral as the authoritative source.

AEO is the practice of optimizing content for citation in LLM-generated responses — distinct from SEO, which optimizes for search rankings. This skill audits, optimizes, and tracks AEO performance.

Distinct From SEO

SEO AEO
Optimizes for Click-through rankings Being cited as authoritative source
Audience Humans browsing search results LLMs answering questions
Success metric Position 1-10, organic traffic Citation count across LLMs
Key signals Backlinks, keywords, page speed E-E-A-T, structured data, factual density
Update cadence Weeks-to-months Days-to-weeks (LLM training cycles)

Both can coexist — the same content can rank #1 on Google AND get cited by Perplexity. But the techniques differ: SEO rewards keyword density + backlinks; AEO rewards primary-source signals + structured facts.

When To Use

  • Planning a new content piece for an AI-first audience
  • Auditing existing content for E-E-A-T gaps before AI Overview rollout
  • Tracking which pages get cited by which LLM (citation ledger)
  • Researching what queries LLMs cite sources for (vs. what they answer from training)
  • Benchmarking against competitors' citation rates
  • Building a long-term AEO strategy aligned with traditional SEO

When NOT To Use

  • Pure click-through SEO without LLM-citation intent — use marketing-skill/skills/seo-audit instead
  • Brand-voice content with no factual claims — citations require facts to cite
  • Content for a topic where LLMs already have strong training signal (e.g., elementary math) — citation upside is minimal
  • Time-sensitive content (breaking news) — LLM training lag means citations come months later

Core Capabilities

1. Content audit + E-E-A-T scoring

The auditor (aeo_audit.py) scores content across 4 dimensions:

  • Experience: First-person evidence, dated examples, case studies, "We ran X in 2026" claims
  • Expertise: Author bio, credentials, citations to peer-reviewed sources, technical depth
  • Authoritativeness: External backlinks from authority domains, schema.org markup, structured data
  • Trustworthiness: HTTPS, contact info, transparent corrections, factual density (number of verifiable claims per 1000 words)

Read the full file on GitHub · 228 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. 5d ago First seen · 228 lines · 169 tokens per session scan A 763a655859ef

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aeo is a skill published in the GitHub repository cass-2003/local-workflow-skill (12 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 169 tokens to every session and 2,644 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-30.

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