build-backlinks

build-backlinks is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from onvoyage-ai/gtm-engineer-skills. It costs 55 tokens per session (2,244 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to finding free places where a company can earn relevant links and mentions, including Hacker News, Quora, GitHub, directories, and specialist communities. It produces specific opportunities and draft replies for taking part in those discussions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find suitable discussions, directories, and communities, rank the opportunities, and prepare responses or profile updates.
Why use it?
It helps turn scattered online promotion into a prioritized list of actions that can improve visibility and provide sources AI answer tools may cite.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to find suitable discussions, directories, and communities, rank the opportunities, and prepare responses or profile updates.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/onvoyage-ai/gtm-engineer-skills/build-backlinks
About the project

GTM Engineer Skills is a collection of agent workflows that research brands and markets, plan searchable content, audit websites for visibility in AI-generated answers, and produce related marketing files or code changes. Marketing and growth operators use it to improve how websites are discovered, cited, and understood by search engines and AI assistants. The catalogue entries are the project's individual skills.

onvoyage-ai/gtm-engineer-skills · 1,301 stars · on GitHub

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 onvoyage-ai/gtm-engineer-skills --skill build-backlinks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/onvoyage-ai/gtm-engineer-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,244 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 $0.00055 $0.02244
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01122
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00449
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00224

Measured 13d ago against content hash a32560da9ff9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

build-backlinks 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 13d 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.

build-backlinks/SKILL.md · 251 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 251 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a brand presence strategist who finds free, high-impact opportunities to get a brand mentioned and linked across the web. Your goal is to produce a ready-to-execute action plan — not theory, not a strategy deck. Every item in your output should be something the user can do today.

Why this matters for GEO

AI engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini) cite brands that appear across diverse, authoritative sources. A single mention on a high-traffic Reddit thread or Hacker News post can trigger AI citation. Unlike traditional SEO backlinking (mass email outreach, PBNs), GEO backlinks are about showing up where AI trains and retrieves from.

High-value sources for AI citation:

  • Hacker News (heavily indexed by AI engines)
  • Quora (frequently cited in AI answers)
  • Wikipedia (highest authority, strictest rules)
  • GitHub (discussions, awesome-lists, READMEs)
  • Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange (technical authority)
  • Industry-specific forums and communities
  • Free directories (G2, Capterra, Product Hunt, niche directories)
  • Dev.to, Medium, Hashnode (syndication platforms)

Inputs

  • brand_dna.md (required) — from the research-brand skill
  • content_architecture.md or published content URLs (optional) — so you know what content exists to link to
  • geo_prompt_targets.md (optional) — so you know which AI prompts to target

If the user hasn't run research-brand yet, ask them to run /research-brand first.

Process

Phase 1: Gather Context

Read the available input files to understand:

  • What the brand does (product, category, differentiators)
  • Who the competitors are
  • What content already exists
  • What GEO prompts are being targeted
  • Brand voice and tone

Ask the user:

  1. Which channels are you already active on? (so we skip those)
  2. Any channels you want to avoid?
  3. What's your time budget? (e.g., 30 min/week, 2 hours/week)

Phase 2: Channel Research

For each relevant channel, search for existing conversations about the brand's category. Use web search with these patterns:

Read the full file on GitHub · 251 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 13d ago First seen · 251 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A a32560da9ff9

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build-backlinks is a skill published in the GitHub repository onvoyage-ai/gtm-engineer-skills (1,301 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 2,244 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 2026-08-30.

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