seo-drift

seo-drift is a skill for Claude Code from seranking/seo-skills. It costs 96 tokens per session (3,455 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A change tracker for a website’s search-engine health. It records a baseline snapshot and later compares new data with it, much like version history for SEO.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to capture SEO baselines, compare later snapshots, review changes over time, and detect regressions in traffic, keywords, backlinks, authority, or page content.
Why use it?
It reveals problems that appear after a deployment, redesign, or content removal, even when nobody notices them immediately.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the seo-skills plugin — 32 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to capture SEO baselines, compare later snapshots, review changes over time, and detect regressions in traffic, keywords, backlinks, authority, or page content.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/seranking/seo-skills/seo-drift
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 seranking/seo-skills --skill seo-drift
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/seranking/seo-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install seo-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 1 MCP server.

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 seo-drift

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

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/seranking/seo-skills/seo-drift"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/seranking/seo-skills/seo-drift.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,455 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 $0.00096 $0.03455
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01728
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00691
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00346

Measured 10d ago against content hash bb0ef10b0096, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

seo-drift 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 10d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • seo-drift — 89% identical, 26 lines differ
skills/seo-drift/SKILL.md · 183 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 183 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Example output: examples/seo-drift-wix-com-20260514/compare/DRIFT-REPORT.md

SEO Drift

Git for SEO. Capture a snapshot of a domain or URL's SEO state ("baseline"), then on later runs diff the current state against the baseline and surface regressions. Catches the things that get worse silently after a deploy, redesign, or content cull.

Acknowledgements: drift-as-an-SEO-skill framework originated in claude-seo by AgriciDaniel (with the original concept credited to Dan Colta, Pro Hub Challenge). MIT-licensed both directions; this implementation is independent but the framing is theirs.

Prerequisites

  • SE Ranking MCP server connected.
  • Claude's WebFetch tool available (for URL-mode page fingerprinting).
  • User provides: target domain or URL, plus a subcommand (baseline, compare, history).

Optional flags

Flag Mode Effect
--no-firecrawl baseline, compare Skip Firecrawl-based <head> + JSON-LD capture even when Firecrawl is installed (saves credits at the cost of canonical / robots / og:* / JSON-LD diff coverage).
--skip-cwv baseline, compare Skip the Google CrUX capture (step 4b) even when google-api.json is configured. Useful when you only care about content/structural drift, or when CrUX rate-limit concerns outweigh CWV coverage. Mirrors theirs at seo-drift/SKILL.md:107, 131.
--baseline-id <n> compare Compare against a specific baseline by ID rather than the most recent.
--limit <n> history Cap the number of historical entries shown.

Subcommands

baseline <target>

Capture the current SEO state and write it to a snapshot file. No diff produced.

compare <target>

Load the most recent baseline for the target. Capture the current state. Diff. Produce DRIFT-REPORT.md.

history <target>

List all stored baselines for the target with their dates and key metrics (DA, traffic, keyword count). No diff produced.

Read the full file on GitHub · 183 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. 10d ago First seen · 183 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A bb0ef10b0096

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seo-drift is a skill published in the GitHub repository seranking/seo-skills (139 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 3,455 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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