ai-search-rescue

ai-search-rescue is a skill for Claude Code from maxschottke-spec/seo-survival-kit. It costs 149 tokens per session (3,690 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for improving a website’s chances of being cited in AI-generated search answers, including Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity. It focuses on writing short passages that directly answer parts of a user’s question.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a site is no longer cited by AI search services or wants to work systematically toward being cited. It covers passage-focused content work across several AI search products.
Why use it?
Traditional search rankings and AI citations are different: an AI system may select a source passage instead of simply showing a ranked result. The framework helps address lost or weak visibility in these AI search surfaces.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the seo-rescue plugin — 18 skills, 6 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it when a site is no longer cited by AI search services or wants to work systematically toward being cited. It covers passage-focused content work across several AI search products.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/maxschottke-spec/seo-survival-kit/ai-search-rescue
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 maxschottke-spec/seo-survival-kit --skill ai-search-rescue
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/maxschottke-spec/seo-survival-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install seo-rescue, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 6 commands.

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Per session 149 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,690 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 $0.00149 $0.03690
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.01845
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00738
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00369

Measured 12d ago against content hash a77e81769fe3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-search-rescue 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.

plugins/seo-rescue/skills/ai-search-rescue/SKILL.md · 260 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 260 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI Search Rescue

Overview

A framework for recovering and growing visibility in AI search surfaces: Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Bing Copilot, Claude.ai search. The mechanics differ from classical SERP-ranking: instead of position 1-10 of a result list, you are competing to be the source the LLM cites in a generated answer.

Two operational findings drive this skill:

  1. AI citations may lead classical SERP recovery by several weeks. In one mid-sized e-commerce recovery (March 2026 Core Update), AI-Mode + AI-Overviews + ChatGPT citations started moving up roughly 2–6 weeks before the Sistrix VI did. The pattern is an observation from a single case plus published anecdata, not a measured statistical relationship. Treat it as an indicator worth watching, not a prediction. If you observe the same or opposite pattern in your own recoveries, please contribute the data point back to LESSONS.md.
  2. The optimization isn't keyword targeting, it's passage targeting. AI surfaces extract short passages (one sentence to one paragraph) that directly answer a sub-question of the user's prompt. If your page has no extractable passages, you don't get cited even when you rank #1 organically.

When to use

  • A site that recovered organic rankings but is invisible in AI Overviews
  • Owner says "ChatGPT keeps recommending our competitor, never us"
  • Site has thin or unstructured content that AI surfaces can't extract from
  • Post-Core-Update recovery work — track AI citations as leading recovery indicator
  • New domain/topic launch — set up for AI-citability from day one
  • B2B / YMYL site (medical, legal, financial) — AI surfaces over-index on authoritative sources here

Don't use for:

  • Pure SERP-position optimization (use seo-outreach-report + competitor-deep-audit)
  • Local-pack / Map-pack work (different mechanics)
  • Pure e-commerce product-page conversion (different lever)

How AI surfaces choose what to cite

Different surfaces, similar mechanics. The model receives a user query, retrieves candidate documents (via search index or RAG), and assembles a generated answer. Two questions determine if you make it in:

Read the full file on GitHub · 260 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 · 260 lines · 149 tokens per session scan A a77e81769fe3

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ai-search-rescue is a skill published in the GitHub repository maxschottke-spec/seo-survival-kit (9 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 149 tokens to every session and 3,690 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-31.

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