canonical-tag

canonical-tag is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kostja94/marketing-skills. It costs 62 tokens per session (1,133 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to canonical URLs, which tell search engines which version of similar or duplicate pages should be treated as the main one. It also covers redirects and duplicate versions caused by protocols, domains, query parameters, languages, or pagination.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose canonical tags, plan 301 redirects, consolidate HTTP and HTTPS or www and non-www versions, and handle duplicate content and alternate URLs.
Why use it?
It prevents search engines from splitting attention between competing URLs and helps consolidate their signals on the preferred page. It is useful when the same content can be reached through multiple addresses.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to choose canonical tags, plan 301 redirects, consolidate HTTP and HTTPS or www and non-www versions, and handle duplicate content and alternate URLs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kostja94/marketing-skills/canonical
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 kostja94/marketing-skills --skill canonical
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kostja94/marketing-skills

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.

agentmods badge for canonical-tag

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kostja94/marketing-skills/canonical/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/kostja94/marketing-skills/canonical)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/kostja94/marketing-skills/canonical"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kostja94/marketing-skills/canonical/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for canonical-tag

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/kostja94/marketing-skills/canonical"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kostja94/marketing-skills/canonical.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,133 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 $0.00062 $0.01133
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00566
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00227
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00113

Measured 9d ago against content hash a8490032085c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

canonical-tag 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 9d 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

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/seo/technical/canonical/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SEO Technical: Canonical

Guides canonical tag configuration to consolidate duplicate content and declare preferred URLs.

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.

Scope (Technical SEO)

  • Duplicate site versions: HTTPS vs HTTP; www vs non-www; trailing slash (/page vs /page/) — choose one, 301 redirect others
  • Duplicate content: Canonical tags; consolidate and 301 to preferred URL
  • HTTPS: SSL/TLS; secure connection; ranking signal since 2014

Initial Assessment

Check for project context first: If .claude/project-context.md or .cursor/project-context.md exists, read it for site URL and language structure.

Identify:

  1. Site URL: Base domain
  2. Duplicate scenarios: Multi-language, query params, pagination, alternate URLs
  3. Framework: Next.js, React, static, etc.

Canonicalization Methods (Choose by Scenario)

Method When Strength
301 redirect Preferred; server can redirect Strongest — permanent redirect
Canonical tag Cannot redirect (e.g. params, pagination) Strong — HTML signal
robots.txt Block non-canonical paths Weak — advisory only

Use 301 for HTTP→HTTPS, www variants, trailing slash. Use canonical for params, pagination, UTM.

HTTPS & Security

HTTPS is a ranking signal (Google, 2014). Users and crawlers should access only the HTTPS version.

Requirement Action
SSL/TLS certificate Install valid certificate; use Let's Encrypt for free
301 redirect HTTP → HTTPS; all HTTP requests redirect to HTTPS
Mixed content No HTTP resources on HTTPS pages; fix mixed content warnings
HSTS Optional; Strict-Transport-Security header for repeat visitors

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 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. 9d ago First seen · 125 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A a8490032085c

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canonical-tag is a skill published in the GitHub repository kostja94/marketing-skills (967 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,133 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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