indexnow

indexnow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kostja94/marketing-skills. It costs 80 tokens per session (832 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to IndexNow, a protocol that notifies search engines—mainly Bing—when web pages are added or updated. It covers sending individual URLs or URL lists for indexing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up the IndexNow API, create and verify its key file, submit new or changed URLs, and connect submissions with a sitemap and deployment process.
Why use it?
It reduces the delay between publishing a page and notifying supported search engines. It also helps keep URL notifications connected to the site's sitemap.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

not rated 967repo +13 3mo ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 80 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to set up the IndexNow API, create and verify its key file, submit new or changed URLs, and connect submissions with a sitemap and deployment process.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 832 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
  • Socket pass 28 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 28 Mar 2026
  • 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 $0.00080 $0.00832
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.00416
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00166
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00083

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5d6c133b1fdc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

indexnow 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:

  • indexnow — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
  • indexnow — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
skills/seo/technical/indexnow/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SEO Technical: IndexNow

Guides IndexNow protocol integration for faster search engine indexing (primarily Bing).

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)

  • IndexNow: Submit URLs to Bing/Yandex for faster indexing
  • URL notification: Notify search engines of new or updated URLs

Initial Assessment

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

Identify:

  1. Site URL: Base domain
  2. URL source: Config file, sitemap, CMS, etc.
  3. Deployment: CI/CD, manual, or both

Overview

IndexNow notifies search engines (mainly Bing) of new or updated URLs to speed up indexing.

Implementation Steps

1. API Key and Verification

  • Generate API key (e.g., UUID)
  • Create verification file: https://example.com/{key}.txt
  • File content: the API key string
  • Configure key and URL in your IndexNow client

2. Submission Methods

Method When to use
Single URL New or updated page
Batch Many URLs at once (e.g., after deploy)
Relative paths Convert to full URLs before submitting

3. Best Practices

Practice Note
When to submit New pages, major content updates, meta changes
When not to Minor edits; let natural crawling handle
Frequency Once per deploy; avoid excessive submissions
Priority Submit high-value commercial pages first

4. CI/CD Integration

npm run build
npm run indexnow:all

5. Single Source of Truth (URL List)

  • Use same config as sitemap: Import URL list from central config (e.g., site-pages-config.ts) or sitemap generation logic.
  • Avoid: Separate hardcoded URL lists for IndexNow—leads to inconsistency and missed URLs.
  • Feed: If you have RSS/feed, it can also consume from the same config to stay in sync.

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 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 · 101 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 5d6c133b1fdc

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indexnow is a skill published in the GitHub repository kostja94/marketing-skills (967 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 832 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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