backlink-quality-validator

backlink-quality-validator is a skill for Codex from sergekostenchuk/ui-ux-agent-skill-system. It costs 76 tokens per session (633 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of backlink-quality-validator, Apache-2.0.

A review guide for checking whether a backlink—an external website linking to your site—is relevant, legitimate, and safe.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing proposed or existing backlinks, checking their attributes and context, and deciding whether to approve, revise, reject, or gather more evidence.
Why use it?
It helps identify spam, risky paid links, misleading anchors, and links that break platform rules before they harm your site.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Reviewing proposed or existing backlinks, checking their attributes and context, and deciding whether to approve, revise, reject, or gather more evidence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sergekostenchuk/ui-ux-agent-skill-system/backlink-quality-validator
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 sergekostenchuk/ui-ux-agent-skill-system --skill backlink-quality-validator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sergekostenchuk/ui-ux-agent-skill-system

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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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 633 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 97% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00633
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00316
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00127
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00063

Measured 10d ago against content hash 03731e8d97b8, 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 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

This is a copy

97% identical to backlink-quality-validator — 6 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

core/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 $HOME/SKILL/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

3 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. 10d ago First seen · 80 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 03731e8d97b8

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backlink-quality-validator is a skill published in the GitHub repository sergekostenchuk/ui-ux-agent-skill-system (23 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 633 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to backlink-quality-validator, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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