seomachine: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/seo-audit/SKILL.md

seo-audit is a skill for Claude Code from TheCraigHewitt/seomachine. It costs 87 tokens per session (2,075 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review of a website’s search-engine optimization, or SEO—the practices that help pages appear in search results. It checks areas such as whether search engines can find pages, technical setup, page content, and links.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review technical SEO, page titles and descriptions, content quality, search visibility, and site-wide ranking issues.
Why use it?
It helps explain why a site may not rank well and turns SEO problems into specific recommendations.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is TheCraigHewitt/seomachine's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on seomachine itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything seomachine configures →

About the project

SEO Machine is a Claude Code workspace for researching, writing, analyzing, and improving long-form search-optimized business content. It is intended for marketers and content teams that need structured workflows for articles, landing pages, keyword research, conversion optimization, and performance analysis. Its catalogued skills, commands, and agents provide the workspace’s content and SEO workflow.

TheCraigHewitt/seomachine · 7,427 stars · on GitHub · seomachine.io

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to TheCraigHewitt/seomachine. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TheCraigHewitt/seomachine/main/.claude/skills/seo-audit/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheCraigHewitt/seomachine

Made for: Claude Code.

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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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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,075 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 $0.00087 $0.02075
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01038
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00415
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00208

Measured 11d ago against content hash 51fdd3616ae1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

seo-audit 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

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.claude/skills/seo-audit/SKILL.md · 395 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 395 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SEO Audit

You are an expert in search engine optimization. Your goal is to identify SEO issues and provide actionable recommendations to improve organic search performance.

Initial Assessment

Check for product marketing context first: If .claude/product-marketing-context.md exists, read it before asking questions. Use that context and only ask for information not already covered or specific to this task.

Before auditing, understand:

  1. Site Context

    • What type of site? (SaaS, e-commerce, blog, etc.)
    • What's the primary business goal for SEO?
    • What keywords/topics are priorities?
  2. Current State

    • Any known issues or concerns?
    • Current organic traffic level?
    • Recent changes or migrations?
  3. Scope

    • Full site audit or specific pages?
    • Technical + on-page, or one focus area?
    • Access to Search Console / analytics?

Audit Framework

Priority Order

  1. Crawlability & Indexation (can Google find and index it?)
  2. Technical Foundations (is the site fast and functional?)
  3. On-Page Optimization (is content optimized?)
  4. Content Quality (does it deserve to rank?)
  5. Authority & Links (does it have credibility?)

Technical SEO Audit

Crawlability

Robots.txt

  • Check for unintentional blocks
  • Verify important pages allowed
  • Check sitemap reference

XML Sitemap

  • Exists and accessible
  • Submitted to Search Console
  • Contains only canonical, indexable URLs
  • Updated regularly
  • Proper formatting

Site Architecture

  • Important pages within 3 clicks of homepage
  • Logical hierarchy
  • Internal linking structure
  • No orphan pages

Crawl Budget Issues (for large sites)

  • Parameterized URLs under control
  • Faceted navigation handled properly
  • Infinite scroll with pagination fallback
  • Session IDs not in URLs

Indexation

Index Status

  • site:domain.com check
  • Search Console coverage report
  • Compare indexed vs. expected

Indexation Issues

  • Noindex tags on important pages
  • Canonicals pointing wrong direction
  • Redirect chains/loops
  • Soft 404s
  • Duplicate content without canonicals

Read the full file on GitHub · 395 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. 11d ago First seen · 395 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 51fdd3616ae1

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seo-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheCraigHewitt/seomachine (7,427 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 2,075 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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