seo-backlink-value

seo-backlink-value is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Orkas-AI/Orkas. It costs 4 tokens per session (2,367 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A calculation method for judging the value and fair price of an offered backlink, which is a link from another website to yours. It first rejects unsuitable sites, then compares acceptable offers with a market range and the seller's quote.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess guest posts, homepage or sitewide links, niche edits, directory listings, and nofollow or sponsored offers.
Why use it?
It helps avoid paying for poor-quality or unsuitable links and separates pricing from the separate work of collecting site metrics. It uses the metrics supplied by the agent and does not fetch them itself.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to assess guest posts, homepage or sitewide links, niche edits, directory listings, and nofollow or sponsored offers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/orkas-ai/orkas/seo-backlink-value
About the project

Orkas is a desktop application for commanding a team of AI agents through one chat, with a commander model assigning work to specialist agents in parallel or in sequence. People use it to coordinate research, writing, presentations, and software tasks while keeping files on their computer. The catalogue includes skills for extending the agents available to Orkas.

Orkas-AI/Orkas · 2,192 stars · on GitHub · orkas.ai

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 Orkas-AI/Orkas --skill seo-backlink-value
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Orkas-AI/Orkas

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 4 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,367 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 $0.00004 $0.02367
Opus 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00947
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00001 $0.00473
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00237

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 993a3a89d94c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

seo-backlink-value 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/backlink_value.py, test/test_backlink_value.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.

resources/builtin/marketplace/agents/e064dca9e1bd/skills/seo-backlink-value/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Value a backlink offer the way a buyer should: veto bad sites first, then price the good ones against a market band and the seller's quote. Deterministic, stdlib-only, no network. The agent supplies the metrics; this skill only computes.

When to use

  • The user has one or more link offers (guest post, homepage/sitewide, niche edit, directory listing, nofollow/sponsored) and asks whether to buy, what a fair price is, or which to buy first.
  • A strategy or off-page recommendation needs a defensible price ceiling for a proposed link placement.

When NOT to use

  • Discovering candidate sites or fetching DR, traffic, or keyword data. Those come from the user, a connected console, or a paid tool the user already has; this skill has no data source of its own.
  • On-page, technical, or GEO scoring of the user's own site (seo-tech-audit, geo-score).

Acquire the metrics before calling (agent work)

The user should not have to look numbers up. Fill each offer's metrics in this order and record the source of every value in sources:

  1. A connected SEO data provider (Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz, DataForSEO, SimilarWeb, SE Ranking) through the connector tools: list the connected tools, call the domain-overview / backlink-profile operation, and map DR or DA, monthly organic traffic, organic share, trend and referring domains into metrics with sources naming the provider. These are the only figures that may be reported as provider-measured.
  2. Free public endpoints with web_fetch when no provider is connected. Pass what they return in proxies; the skill converts them into conservative tier estimates and labels the whole result public_proxy:
    • Popularity rank and 30-day history: https://tranco-list.eu/api/ranks/domain/<domain> → {"domain","ranks":[{"date","rank"}]}. Put the latest rank in proxies.tranco_rank (or null when the response lists no ranks) and the full array in proxies.tranco_history.
    • Domain age: RDAP. Look up the TLD's server in https://data.iana.org/rdap/dns.json, then fetch <server>/domain/<domain> (for .com/.net: https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/<domain>) and pass the registration event's eventDate as proxies.rdap_registration.
    • Indexation: a web_search for site:<domain>; pass the visible result count as proxies.site_results (0 leaves indexation unknown). Set metrics.indexed: false only from verified index-status evidence, not search absence. Organic share has no free source; leave it out and say so.
  3. Ask the user only for what steps 1–2 could not supply, naming the exact field. Never scrape the web UI of Ahrefs, SimilarWeb, Semrush or Moz free checkers: they are login- or CAPTCHA-gated and their terms forbid it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 1mo ago First seen · 102 lines · 4 tokens per session scan A 993a3a89d94c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

seo-backlink-value is a skill published in the GitHub repository Orkas-AI/Orkas (2,192 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 4 tokens to every session and 2,367 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-12.