parasite-seo

parasite-seo is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dalroot/agentic-seo. It costs 152 tokens per session (1,625 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

When the user wants to choose or execute third-party platform SEO (high-authority sites for rankings or backlinks). Also use when the user mentions "parasite SEO," "parasitic SEO," "barnacle SEO," "hosted content," "third-party publishing," "Medium SEO," "Reddit SEO," "GitHub parasite SEO," "LinkedIn Pulse SEO,"…

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dalroot/agentic-seo/parasite-seo
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 dalroot/agentic-seo --skill parasite-seo
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dalroot/agentic-seo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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
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Per session 152 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,625 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 unknown 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 $0.00152 $0.01625
Opus 5.5 $0.00061 $0.00650
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00325
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00162

Measured today against content hash 2db6d42ab4ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

parasite-seo 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 today.

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.

skills/seo/parasite-seo/SKILL.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SEO: Parasite SEO

Guides parasite SEO (also "barnacle SEO")—publishing optimized content on high-authority third-party platforms (Medium, Reddit, LinkedIn, Grokipedia, etc.) to leverage their domain strength for rankings and backlinks, bypassing the need to build your own site's authority from scratch.

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.

What Is Parasite SEO

Parasite SEO = Placing content on high-authority platforms to leverage their domain strength for rankings and AI citation. Part of "Distributed Authority Engineering."

Instead of waiting months for your own domain to gain trust, you publish on established platforms that Google already trusts. Content can rank on page one within days rather than months because Google crawls these platforms frequently and inherits their domain trust.

Best for: Beginners testing niches; local businesses needing quick leads; demand validation; supplementing traditional SEO.

Why It Works

Factor Effect
Domain authority Platforms (DA 90+) rank faster than new sites
Crawl frequency Google crawls Reddit, Medium, LinkedIn often
AI citation ChatGPT, Perplexity cite Reddit, Quora, wikis
UGC preference Algorithm updates favor UGC platforms as trustworthy
Technical foundation High-authority sites have strong technical SEO, fast load, good UX

Platform Tiers

Platform examples are illustrative only. No endorsement implied.

Tier Platform type Examples GEO / AI citation
Tier 1 GEO authority Medium, Reddit, LinkedIn Articles, Quora Very high
Tier 2 Technical authority GitHub, Stack Overflow, Dev.to High; expertise signals
Tier 3–6 Controlled / entity / wiki WordPress.com, Blogger, HN, Grokipedia Varies

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 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. today First seen · 128 lines · 152 tokens per session scan A 2db6d42ab4ab

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parasite-seo is a skill published in the GitHub repository dalroot/agentic-seo (25 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 152 tokens to every session and 1,625 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-10-26.

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