balzac

balzac is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hirebalzac/cli. It costs 42 tokens per session (915 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line tool for an AI content platform that researches website keywords, suggests article topics, writes articles and publishes them. It can publish to WordPress, Webflow, Wix, GoHighLevel or webhooks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a workspace from a domain, generate and accept article suggestions, write from a topic, export Markdown, and publish articles through an integration.
Why use it?
It brings content research, drafting, export and publishing into a repeatable terminal-based workflow.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to create a workspace from a domain, generate and accept article suggestions, write from a topic, export Markdown, and publish articles through an integration.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add hirebalzac/cli --skill clawhub
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hirebalzac/cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 915 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 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 $0.00042 $0.00915
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00366
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00183
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00092

Measured 17d ago against content hash 3b0586953b55, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

balzac 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 17d 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.

clawhub/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Balzac CLI

AI-powered SEO content platform. Authenticate, create a workspace from any domain, and Balzac analyzes your site, generates keyword-driven article suggestions, writes SEO-optimized articles, and publishes them.

npm install -g balzac-cli

Get an API key: https://app.hirebalzac.ai/api_keys

Setup

export BALZAC_API_KEY=bz_your_key_here
# Or: balzac auth login bz_your_key_here

balzac config set workspace <workspace-id>   # set default workspace

Core Workflow

# 1. Create workspace from a domain
balzac workspaces create --domain https://myblog.com --wait
balzac config set workspace "$(balzac --json workspaces list | jq -r '.[0].id')"

# 2. Generate suggestions and accept one (5 credits)
balzac suggestions generate                          # costs 1 credit
sleep 30
balzac suggestions list --status proposed
balzac suggestions accept <suggestion-id>            # costs 5 credits

# 3. Or write directly from a topic (5 credits)
balzac write "How to use AI for content marketing" --wait

# 4. Export or publish
balzac articles export <id> --format markdown
balzac articles publish <id> --integration <integration-id>

Commands

Command What it does
balzac workspaces list/create/get/delete Manage workspaces
balzac keywords list/create/enable/disable Manage SEO keywords
balzac suggestions list/generate/accept/reject AI article suggestions
balzac briefings create --topic "..." Direct write instruction (5 cr)
balzac write "topic" [--wait] Shortcut: briefing + optional wait
balzac articles list/get/export/rewrite/publish Manage articles
balzac articles regenerate-picture <id> New cover image (free, 2 per article; --no-ai-images for no AI image)
balzac competitors list/add/remove Track competitor domains
balzac links list/add/remove Reference links for articles
balzac integrations list/create/get/reconnect Publishing integrations
balzac settings get/update Workspace settings
balzac tones list Available tones of voice
balzac config set/get/reset CLI configuration

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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. 17d ago Changed · +2 lines 3b0586953b55
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 83 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A bd1e9dfeeb9a

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balzac is a skill published in the GitHub repository hirebalzac/cli (3 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 915 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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