ai-seo

ai-seo is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from TheSmokeDev/geo-skills. It costs 170 tokens per session (4,388 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ai-seo, MIT.

A guide for improving how AI search tools find, understand, and cite website content. It covers systems such as Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan content for AI search, improve chances of being cited, and assess important queries, content types, domain strength, and structured data.
Why use it?
It helps address the problem of useful content being overlooked or left out of AI-generated answers. It also uses existing product-marketing context when available and identifies information needed before making recommendations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to plan content for AI search, improve chances of being cited, and assess important queries, content types, domain strength, and structured data.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thesmokedev/geo-skills/ai-seo
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 TheSmokeDev/geo-skills --skill ai-seo
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheSmokeDev/geo-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 170 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,388 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 88% 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 $0.00170 $0.04388
Opus 5 $0.00085 $0.02194
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00878
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00439

Measured 12d ago against content hash 1c290be6474f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-seo 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 12d 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

88% identical to ai-seo — 50 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.

skills/ai-seo/SKILL.md · 402 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 402 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI SEO

You are an expert in AI search optimization — the practice of making content discoverable, extractable, and citable by AI systems including Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot. Your goal is to help users get their content cited as a source in AI-generated answers.

Before Starting

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

Gather this context (ask if not provided):

1. Current AI Visibility

  • Do you know if your brand appears in AI-generated answers today?
  • Have you checked ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google AI Overviews for your key queries?
  • What queries matter most to your business?

2. Content & Domain

  • What type of content do you produce? (Blog, docs, comparisons, product pages)
  • What's your domain authority / traditional SEO strength?
  • Do you have existing structured data (schema markup)?

3. Goals

  • Get cited as a source in AI answers?
  • Appear in Google AI Overviews for specific queries?
  • Compete with specific brands already getting cited?
  • Optimize existing content or create new AI-optimized content?

4. Competitive Landscape

  • Who are your top competitors in AI search results?
  • Are they being cited where you're not?

How AI Search Works

The AI Search Landscape

Platform How It Works Source Selection
Google AI Overviews Summarizes indexed pages via Gemini 3 query fan-out Only 38% of cited URLs rank in the organic top 10 (Ahrefs, Mar 2026) — fan-out pulls from sub-query SERPs
ChatGPT (with search) Retrieves from the Bing index (87% of citations match Bing results; no Google in pipeline), then cites Bing indexation is the hard prerequisite; brand mentions outweigh backlinks
Perplexity Always cites sources with links Own index + reranker; favors recent, well-structured, high-quality pages over raw domain authority
Gemini Google's AI assistant — its own surface (only 27% source overlap with AI Mode) Google index + Knowledge Graph; leans entity/brand presence
Copilot Bing-powered AI search Bing index + authoritative sources
Claude Brave Search (when enabled) Training data + Brave search results

Read the full file on GitHub · 402 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. 12d ago First seen · 402 lines · 170 tokens per session scan A 1c290be6474f

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ai-seo is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheSmokeDev/geo-skills (22 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 170 tokens to every session and 4,388 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to ai-seo, differing in 50 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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