link-prospecting

link-prospecting is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from every-app/open-seo. It costs 23 tokens per session (1,247 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A link-prospecting workflow for finding websites, pages, and authors that might link to a page, product, study, guide, or tool. A link prospect is a possible source of a reference to your site.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discover potential link sources, inspect competitors' backlink profiles, find contact paths, and draft outreach for a specific linkable asset.
Why use it?
It replaces random outreach with a list based on search results and existing backlink signals. It also helps find ways to contact relevant prospects and prepare outreach.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

About the project

OpenSEO is an open-source SEO platform for keyword research, rank tracking, competitor analysis, backlink analysis, site audits, and AI visibility work. It connects SEO data to AI agents through an MCP server and reusable agent skills, while allowing users to supply their own DataForSEO API key and self-host the tool. Catalogue add-ons guide agents through OpenSEO's SEO workflows.

every-app/open-seo · 17,305 stars · on GitHub · openseo.so

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/every-app/open-seo/link-prospecting
Any agent
npx skills add every-app/open-seo --skill link-prospecting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/every-app/open-seo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,247 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 5.1 $0.00023 $0.01247
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00624
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00249
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00125

Measured 6d ago against content hash b366f7f3d8d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

link-prospecting 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

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.agents/skills/link-prospecting/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Goal

Find realistic pages, sites, and authors that might reference the user's page, product, study, guide, or tool. Use OpenSEO for prospect discovery, then use available web/search/browser tools for contact discovery.

Required inputs

  • projectId
  • User domain or target URL
  • Linkable asset, page, product, study, tool, or topic
  • Optional competitors
  • Optional market/location/language

Project context

The project-context tools are free and shared with the app and other agents.

  1. Call get_project_context first and ground the outreach in it — positioning supplies the claim that makes a link worth giving, and the saved competitors are the backlink profiles to mine.
  2. This skill needs positioning and competitors. If either is empty, run a minimal inline setup: ask the user why someone would cite them and who they compete with, or infer from the site and find_serp_competitors and confirm, write it back with update_project_context, then continue the prospecting. Never front-load the full interview; suggest seo-project-setup at the end for the rest.
  3. Before spending credits, check the research log. If the same research ran within the last 30 days, reuse that result and say so instead of re-buying it.
  4. On finish, write back what is durable — the linkable asset via addKeyPages, any competitor whose backlink profile proved useful via addCompetitors — and append a research log entry: { appendResearchLog: { summary: "Link prospecting: <asset/target page>. Verdict: <conclusion>" } }.

OpenSEO MCP tools

  • get_serp_results: find ranking articles, listicles, resource pages, comparisons, and topical publishers.
  • get_backlinks_overview: inspect competitor domain or page backlink/referring-domain patterns.
  • get_domain_overview: qualify important prospect domains.
  • get_ranked_keywords: understand what a prospect or competitor ranks for when topical fit matters.
  • search_local_businesses and get_local_serp_results: use for local SEO link prospecting when nearby businesses, local competitors, or Maps/category signals can reveal partnership targets.
  • research_keywords: expand prospecting queries.

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 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 · 117 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A b366f7f3d8d9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

link-prospecting is a skill published in the GitHub repository every-app/open-seo (17,305 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 1,247 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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