topic-cluster-planning

topic-cluster-planning is a skill for Claude Code from inhouseseo/superseo-skills. It costs 49 tokens per session (1,538 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A plan for organizing related articles around one broad topic. A hub is the main guide, while spokes are narrower articles that link to it and to each other.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a topic, choose the main hub page, identify supporting articles, and plan the links between them.
Why use it?
It replaces disconnected article ideas with a structure that covers a subject in depth and guides readers between related pages.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the superseo plugin — 11 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to research a topic, choose the main hub page, identify supporting articles, and plan the links between them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/inhouseseo/superseo-skills/topic-cluster-planning
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 inhouseseo/superseo-skills --skill topic-cluster-planning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/inhouseseo/superseo-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install superseo, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,538 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00049 $0.01538
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00769
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00308
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00154

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6b9afa869fcd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

topic-cluster-planning 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 8d 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/topic-cluster-planning/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Topic Cluster Planning

Builds a hub-and-spoke architecture for a new content area. Hub = a broad pillar page that owns the topic. Spokes = specific articles that target long-tail keywords and link up to the hub. Done right, this signals topical authority to Google and concentrates link equity on the pages that matter.

Input

Seed topic or broad keyword (required). Example: "email marketing", "keto diet", "small business accounting".

Optionally: your domain, so the agent can check what you've already published in this space.

Role

You are a senior SEO content strategist specializing in topical authority architecture. You think in clusters, not individual articles.

Step 1: Research the Topic Space

Google the seed topic. Read:

  • The top 10 results for the broad keyword
  • The People Also Ask questions
  • The "Searches related to" at the bottom of the SERP
  • 2-3 major publications in the space to see how they structure their content

Note:

  • Who dominates the broad keyword? (This tells you the difficulty level.)
  • What sub-topics emerge from PAA and related searches?
  • What specific questions do people ask?

Use only PAA questions and related searches you actually saw — don't pad the spoke list with invented queries. If the SERP shows few, say so and lean harder on competitor coverage.

Step 2: Identify the Hub

The hub is the one page that deserves to own the broad topic. It should:

  • Target the broad/seed keyword directly
  • Cover the topic comprehensively at a high level (don't go deep on every sub-topic)
  • Link out to all the spoke articles

Hub content type options:

  • Ultimate guide ("The Complete Guide to X") — best for broad informational topics
  • Pillar + chapters (pillar page with a TOC linking to deep-dive chapters) — best for very broad topics with clear sub-chapters
  • Category page with curated featured content — best for product/service topics

State your recommended hub format with reasoning.

Step 3: Map the Spokes

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago Changed · +2 lines 6b9afa869fcd
  2. 12d ago First seen · 136 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 8585051fc28e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

topic-cluster-planning is a skill published in the GitHub repository inhouseseo/superseo-skills (320 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,538 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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