citation-harvesting

citation-harvesting is a skill for Claude Code from LeadMagic/gtm-skills. It costs 76 tokens per session (1,568 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A process for earning website links by responding to requests from journalists, bloggers, and other publishers for expert sources or commentary.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to monitor source-request platforms, prepare expert responses, and support digital public-relations and link-building work.
Why use it?
It gives teams a structured way to find relevant requests and turn useful contributions into mentions and backlinks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; mentions Gemini CLI.

Part of the gtm-skills plugin — 196 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to monitor source-request platforms, prepare expert responses, and support digital public-relations and link-building work.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/leadmagic/gtm-skills/citation-harvesting
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 LeadMagic/gtm-skills --skill citation-harvesting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LeadMagic/gtm-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gtm-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 196 skills.

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 citation-harvesting

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/leadmagic/gtm-skills/citation-harvesting/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/leadmagic/gtm-skills/citation-harvesting)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/leadmagic/gtm-skills/citation-harvesting"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/leadmagic/gtm-skills/citation-harvesting/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 citation-harvesting

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/leadmagic/gtm-skills/citation-harvesting"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/leadmagic/gtm-skills/citation-harvesting.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,568 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 $0.00076 $0.01568
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00784
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00314
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00157

Measured 8d ago against content hash ec203f0188a3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

citation-harvesting 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/check-output.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/content-seo/citation-harvesting/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

Citation harvesting is the most efficient link building strategy for B2B SaaS: respond to journalist and blogger source requests with expert commentary, and earn backlinks from high-authority publications. This skill covers the full citation harvesting motion.

Authoritative Foundations

  • Moz Link Building Guide — Authoritative resource covering link building strategy, citation sources, and quality evaluation for B2B link acquisition.
  • Google Search Central — SEO Starter Guide — Google's foundational SEO resource covering crawlability, indexing, and ranking best practices.
  • Moz Link Building Guide — Named methodology governing recommendations in this skill's process.
  • Google Search Central — SEO Starter Guide — SEO Starter Guide

When to Use

  • "Build backlinks"
  • "Citation harvesting"
  • "Get featured in publications"
  • "Digital PR for links"
  • "Get cited by journalist sources"
  • "Digital PR for links"

Step-by-Step Process

Phase 1: Source Request Monitoring

Monitor these platforms for source requests in your domain:

  • Qwoted: Journalist source request platform — high-quality requests, verified journalists
  • Muck Rack: PR platform for finding journalists by beat, monitoring coverage, and building media lists
  • Help a B2B Writer: Slack community for B2B writers seeking expert sources
  • SourceBottle: Free source request platform with daily digests for expert opportunities
  • Twitter/X: Search "[your topic] + seeking sources" or "journo request"
  • LinkedIn: Follow journalists and editors in your industry
  • Connectively (formerly HARO): The original, still high volume
  • Help a B2B Writer: Slack community for B2B writers seeking sources
  • Twitter/X: Search "[your topic] + seeking sources" or "journo request"
  • LinkedIn: Follow journalists and editors in your industry
  • Subreddit: r/Journalism, r/PR, r/HARO

Phase 2: Response Strategy

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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 ec203f0188a3
  2. 12d ago First seen · 167 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 5b63ffad1c80

Subscribe to this mod's changes

citation-harvesting is a skill published in the GitHub repository LeadMagic/gtm-skills (50 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,568 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 2026-08-30.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

event-room-intelligence

Use this skill 1 to 3 days before any face-to-face event where you hold a registration export (a talk, conference, dinner, booth) and the question is 'I have the attendee CSV, who should I talk to?'. It maps every registrant to a company, joins the list against the live CRM, LinkedIn-verifies every person's title and…

swan-gtm/gtm-skills · 167 tokens

competitor-monitoring

Use this skill when you need to know what rival companies are doing — "what are my competitors doing", "competitor update", "competitor news", "competitive landscape", "market intel", "what's new with [company]", "track [company]", "competitor briefing", "who's making moves", "we keep losing deals to [company]" — or…

swan-gtm/gtm-skills · 157 tokens

startup-launch-playbook

A step-by-step playbook for early-stage startups going from pre-seed to their first 1000 users. Covers MVP validation, initial traction channels, and founder-led growth tactics. By @WeiYipei — follow on X for more startup growth insights.

Gingiris-1031/gingiris-skills · 58 tokens

multichannel-campaign-builder

Use this skill when someone needs a complete outbound sequence written — every touch across LinkedIn and email, not a single cold email. Produces three distinct angles to choose from, then the full sequence with each message ready to send, calibrated to the campaign type and channel mix and self-checked against a…

swan-gtm/gtm-skills · 139 tokens

cialdini-influence

Applies Cialdini's seven principles of ethical persuasion -- Reciprocity, Commitment and Consistency, Social Proof, Authority, Liking, Scarcity, and Unity -- to business contexts including sales, marketing, fundraising, and negotiation. Use when designing conversion funnels, optimizing sales processes, preparing…

fatihguner/foreman · 88 tokens

meeting-prep

Build a pre-meeting briefing — who's in the room, what they care about, your goal, and the questions to ask. Trigger when the user asks to prep for a meeting or call, "what should I know before", or names an upcoming meeting.

etrebels/claude-code-growth-os · 56 tokens