aeo

aeo is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tmj-90/gaffer. It costs 105 tokens per session (1,024 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Answer Engine Optimisation, a way to make content more likely to be cited by AI systems such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini. It differs from SEO, which mainly targets search-result ranking and visits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit or improve content with clear facts, author expertise, primary-source references, structured information, and trust signals.
Why use it?
It addresses the problem of useful content being overlooked or not treated as a trustworthy source in AI-generated answers.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tmj-90/gaffer/aeo
Any agent
npx skills add tmj-90/gaffer --skill aeo
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tmj-90/gaffer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for aeo

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,024 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00105 $0.01024
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00512
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00205
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00102

Measured 4d ago against content hash 14b875584f59, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aeo 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 4d 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.

runner/skills/aeo/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Optimise content for LLM citation

AEO (Answer Engine Optimisation) optimises content to be cited in LLM-generated responses — distinct from SEO, which optimises for click-through rankings. The signal sets differ.

AEO vs SEO

SEO AEO
Optimises for Click-through ranking Citation as authoritative source
Success metric Position 1-10, organic traffic Citation count across LLMs
Key signals Backlinks, keywords, page speed E-E-A-T, structured facts, primary-source signals
Update cadence Weeks–months Days–weeks (LLM training cycles)

Both coexist — a page can rank #1 on Google AND be cited by Perplexity.

E-E-A-T signals for LLM citation

LLMs prefer content that looks like a primary source to their training data:

Signal Implementation
Experience First-person case studies; dated real examples ("In our 2026 audit of 50 repos…")
Expertise Author bio with credentials; technical depth; cite primary sources
Authoritativeness External backlinks from authority domains; schema.org markup; Wikipedia presence
Trustworthiness HTTPS; contact info; transparent corrections; verifiable claims with data

Factual density — LLMs prefer pages with a high ratio of verifiable claims per 1,000 words. Prose that states facts > prose that describes opinions.

Content structure for citation

LLMs extract from:

  1. Direct-answer paragraphs — a question as a heading followed immediately by a 1–2 sentence direct answer.
  2. Structured data — FAQPage and HowTo schema (see schema-markup).
  3. Definition blocks — "X is [concise definition]" sentences at the start of sections.
  4. Comparison tables — LLMs reproduce tables well; use for vs. comparisons and feature matrices.

Citation-hostile patterns to avoid

  • Gated content (LLMs can't read it during training crawls).
  • JavaScript-rendered text (crawlers often miss it).
  • Opinion without evidence ("we believe X is important").
  • Content updated without a dateModified schema field.
  • No author or institutional attribution.

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 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. 4d ago First seen · 75 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 14b875584f59

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aeo is a skill published in the GitHub repository tmj-90/gaffer (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 1,024 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.