rank-aeo

rank-aeo is a skill for Claude Code from Houseofmvps/claude-rank. It costs 20 tokens per session (668 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checker and fixer for making website content suitable for featured snippets, voice assistants, and “People Also Ask” results.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps audit and update FAQ, HowTo, Article, and speakable data, shorten answers, organize procedures, add question-based sections, and prepare content for voice searches.
Why use it?
It finds content that lacks direct answers, useful question headings, numbered steps, or the structured data search systems use to interpret pages.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the claude-rank plugin — 6 skills, 12 commands, 9 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit It helps audit and update FAQ, HowTo, Article, and speakable data, shorten answers, organize procedures, add question-based sections, and prepare content for voice searches.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add Houseofmvps/claude-rank
Claude Code
/plugin install claude-rank

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-rank, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 12 commands, 9 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 668 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 $0.00020 $0.00668
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00334
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00134
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00067

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9e1ec8df089e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rank-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 12d 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.

skills/rank-aeo/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AEO Audit — Answer Engine Optimization

Phase 1: Scan

node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/tools/aeo-scanner.mjs <project-directory>

Phase 2: Report

Present AEO findings:

  • Schema — FAQPage, HowTo, speakable, Article/BlogPosting
  • Snippet Readiness — direct answers, numbered steps, concise paragraphs
  • Voice Search — conversational patterns, 29-word answer targets

Phase 3: Fix

  • Missing FAQPage → detect Q&A patterns in content, generate schema: node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/tools/schema-engine.mjs generate FAQPage
  • Missing speakable → add speakable schema targeting key answer sections
  • Long answers → restructure to 40-60 word direct answers after question H2s
  • No numbered steps → convert procedural content to ordered lists
  • Missing featured image → flag for user to add hero image

Phase 4: Verify

Re-run aeo-scanner. Show before/after AEO score.

Phase 5: Voice Search Guidance

  • Target conversational long-tail queries ("how do I...", "what is the best...")
  • Keep primary answers under 29 words (Google voice search average)
  • Add People Also Ask patterns as H2/H3 questions throughout content

Phase 6: Search Console Submission

After deploying AEO fixes, submit to search engines to trigger rich result processing:

Google Search Console

  1. Request indexing for pages with new FAQ/HowTo/speakable schema — URL Inspection → Request Indexing
  2. Check Rich Results — Enhancements → FAQPage / HowTo / Breadcrumbs / Article
    • Verify new schema is detected and valid (no errors)
    • Common issues: missing image in Article, missing acceptedAnswer in FAQ
  3. Test individual pages — Use Rich Results Test before and after fixes
  4. Monitor Featured Snippets — Performance → Search Appearance → filter by "Featured snippets"
    • Track which pages win snippets after AEO optimization
    • If pages lose snippets, check if answer length changed (40-60 words optimal)

Bing Webmaster Tools

  1. Submit URLs — URL Submission → submit all pages with new schema
  2. Verify schema — Bing supports FAQPage, HowTo, and speakable in its rich results
  3. Enable IndexNow — instant re-indexing after schema changes

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 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. 12d ago First seen · 66 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 9e1ec8df089e

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rank-aeo is a skill published in the GitHub repository Houseofmvps/claude-rank (143 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 668 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.