backlink-quality-validator

backlink-quality-validator is a skill for Codex from sergekostenchuk/seo-llm-skill-cluster. It costs 76 tokens per session (614 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A backlink review guide for assessing whether an external website link is relevant, legitimate, safe, and suitable for a target page. A backlink is a link from another website to yours.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review link opportunities or existing links, check anchor text and link attributes, assess spam risk, and issue an approve, revise, reject, or evidence-needed verdict.
Why use it?
It helps reject spammy, risky, misleading, or rule-breaking links before they harm a site's search visibility or reputation.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 <codex-skills-dir>/senior-skill-architect/scripts/lint_production_skill.py ./skills/backlink-quality-validator.

Good fit Use it to review link opportunities or existing links, check anchor text and link attributes, assess spam risk, and issue an approve, revise, reject, or evidence-needed verdict.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sergekostenchuk/seo-llm-skill-cluster
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sergekostenchuk/seo-llm-skill-cluster/backlink-quality-validator

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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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 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 614 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 $0.00076 $0.00614
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00307
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00123
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00061

Measured 11d ago against content hash e4c0435f3c95, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backlink-quality-validator 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 11d 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:

skills/backlink-quality-validator/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Use this skill after an opportunity is proposed by a scout or after a backlink already exists.

Read ./plans/seo-llm-skill-cluster/authority/white-hat-authority-policy.md before validating a placement.

Read references/validation-rubric.md before producing a verdict.

Owns

  • backlink quality review;
  • relevance and target-page fit;
  • link attribute review (follow, nofollow, ugc, sponsored);
  • anchor text risk;
  • spam/toxicity risk;
  • platform compliance notes;
  • approval or rejection recommendation.

Does Not Own

  • finding opportunities;
  • posting or editing links;
  • paid placement negotiation;
  • external outreach;
  • Search Console/rank attribution;
  • disavow decisions without broader SEO review.

Workflow

  1. Identify source URL, target URL, anchor text, link location, and context.
  2. Check relevance and user value.
  3. Check link attribute and disclosure expectations.
  4. Check platform-rule status.
  5. Identify spam, toxicity, PBN, directory, fake review, and paid-undisclosed risk.
  6. Score the backlink as approve, revise, reject, or needs_more_evidence.
  7. Provide exact reason and safe next step.

Non-Negotiables

  • Reject link farms, PBNs, fake reviews, hidden links, irrelevant directories, and paid-undisclosed links.
  • Reject anchor text that is misleading or stuffed.
  • Do not claim a backlink improves rankings without measurement.
  • Do not edit external pages.
  • Do not recommend disavow unless the broader context and risk are reviewed.

Safety And Privacy Boundaries

  • Do not store private outreach, account credentials, paid-placement negotiations, or private analytics in reports.
  • If source pages include private or sensitive content, summarize without exposing it.
  • Mark unknown platform rules as unknown rather than assuming permission.

Output Shape

Return:

  1. Validation verdict.
  2. Source/target/anchor/context.
  3. Scores and rationale.
  4. Link attribute and disclosure notes.
  5. Platform-rule status.
  6. Risks and required fixes.
  7. Monitoring or recheck date.

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 lines

Files

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.

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. 11d ago First seen · 80 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A e4c0435f3c95

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backlink-quality-validator is a skill published in the GitHub repository sergekostenchuk/seo-llm-skill-cluster (39 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 614 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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