geo-fanout

geo-fanout is a skill for Claude Code from TheSmokeDev/geo-skills. It costs 78 tokens per session (2,268 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning and review method for matching website content to the smaller questions an AI search engine may create from one user prompt. This process is called query fan-out: one question is split into several related searches.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map related questions, check topic coverage, and plan page titles and URL slugs that match those questions.
Why use it?
A page can be relevant to the main topic but miss the specific related questions used to find sources. Mapping those questions shows where the site's coverage, titles, or web addresses need improvement.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to map related questions, check topic coverage, and plan page titles and URL slugs that match those questions.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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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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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,268 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 $0.00078 $0.02268
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01134
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00454
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00227

Measured 12d ago against content hash d3746ee74d01, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

geo-fanout 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.

skills/geo-fanout/SKILL.md · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Query Fan-Out / Topic-Cluster Optimization Skill

Purpose

This skill optimizes a site for query fan-out -- the mechanism by which AI search engines rewrite a single user prompt into a cluster of sub-queries and retrieve sources per sub-query. Fan-out coverage is the 2026 meta-factor for AI citation: pages win citations by matching the sub-queries engines generate, not by ranking #1 for the head term. This skill maps a topic's sub-query space, audits how much of it the site covers, and engineers titles and URL slugs so pages survive the pre-read gatekeeping step.

Core Insight

Fan-out is the top-scoring citation factor in Zyppy's 23-factor meta-analysis: 9.3/10 (DigitalApplied synthesis of 54 studies, Jun 2026). Engines like Gemini 3 (Jan 2026) and ChatGPT decompose one prompt into multiple sub-queries, run each against their index, and cite the pages that best match each sub-query. The consequence is a collapsed dependence on organic rank:

  • Only 38% of AIO-cited URLs rank in the organic top 10 -- down from 76% (Ahrefs, 863K SERPs / 4M URLs, Mar 2026).
  • 31% of AIO citations come from positions 11-100, and 31% from beyond position 100 (same study).

Page-3 organic is NOT disqualifying. The fan-out is the small-site opening: a low-authority page that precisely answers one sub-query can be cited over a high-authority page that only covers the head term.

Win the cluster, not the head term.


How Fan-Out Works (Mechanism)

  1. User submits one prompt (e.g., "how much does SR-22 insurance cost in California?").
  2. The engine classifies whether to search at all (ChatGPT: only ~18-24% of prompts trigger search).
  3. The prompt is rewritten into a cluster of sub-queries -- eligibility, cost, process, location, and language variants of the underlying intent.
  4. Each sub-query is run against the engine's retrieval index (ChatGPT: Bing; Gemini/AIO: Google).
  5. Retrieved pages pass a pre-read gate on title, snippet, and URL before content is ever opened.
  6. The engine cites the best-matching pages across the cluster (~15-50% of retrieved URLs get cited; ⚠️ single source, SubscribePR Jul 2026).

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 lines

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 · 155 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A d3746ee74d01

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geo-fanout is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheSmokeDev/geo-skills (22 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 2,268 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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