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.
npx skills add SearchCans/searchcans-skills --skill searchcans-content-format-briefgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SearchCans/searchcans-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/searchcans/searchcans-skills/searchcans-content-format-brief)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/searchcans/searchcans-skills/searchcans-content-format-brief"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/searchcans/searchcans-skills/searchcans-content-format-brief/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/searchcans/searchcans-skills/searchcans-content-format-brief"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/searchcans/searchcans-skills/searchcans-content-format-brief.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00055 | $0.00516 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00022 | $0.00206 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00103 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00052 |
Grade A, and why
searchcans-content-format-brief 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.
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.
What it actually says
SearchCans Content Format Brief
Map which types of pages, images, videos, and short videos are currently returned for one localized query. The result is a format inventory for planning—not a traffic forecast, ranking guarantee, engagement report, or a license to reuse content.
Collect a localized format inventory
Confirm the topic, target country/language, intended audience, and the planning decision. The default run requests all four surfaces: Google web, Images, Videos, and Short Videos.
python scripts/content_format_brief.py "AI research agent" \
--country us --language en --max-results 10 \
--out content-format-brief.json
To answer a narrower question, repeat --surface with web, images, videos, or short-videos. This reduces cost and scope explicitly.
Account-aware scope and interpretation
The default --account-mode auto estimates one SERP request per selected format, performs a sanitized Account API pre-flight, caps the selected surfaces only if needed, and respects available Parallel Lanes. warn, enforce, and off let the operator choose a different policy.
Use the report template to deliver:
- Query, market, retrieved formats, and limits.
- Observed format/page-type patterns for each surface.
- Search questions and related searches as leads.
- A content-format hypothesis and the source/page validation still needed.
Do not call something “popular,” “high-engagement,” “best-performing,” or “ranked” from this output. Google result appearance is an observed snapshot only. Image and video URLs are references; their appearance gives no reuse, ownership, or licensing right.
Official website
Resources
scripts/content_format_brief.pygenerates the four-surface JSON inventory.references/content-format-report.mdprovides the planning-brief structure and boundaries.
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.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 47 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A f7527217d7d6
searchcans-content-format-brief is a skill published in the GitHub repository SearchCans/searchcans-skills (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 516 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.
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