aeo

aeo is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tmj-90/gaffer. It costs 122 tokens per session (1,571 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

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

Good fit Use it to audit or improve content with clear facts, author expertise, primary-source references, structured information, and trust signals.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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Per session 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,571 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00122 $0.01571
Opus 5.5 $0.00049 $0.00628
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00314
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00157

Measured 20d ago against content hash 221b632982fc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aeo scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 20d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

robots.txt, the CDN/WAF rules and the meta robots tags. Fetch the page with curl and
runner/skills/aeo/SKILL.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Optimise content to be cited by answer engines

Answer engines (ChatGPT search, Perplexity, Claude with web search, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode) mostly answer by retrieving live pages from a search index and citing them. They are not recalling training data. A page gets cited when three things hold:

  1. The engine's crawler can fetch it.
  2. It ranks in the engine's retrieval for the question.
  3. It contains a clear, quotable answer the model can attribute.

AEO is therefore mostly SEO fundamentals plus extractable answers. Treat claims of a secret ranking signal as unproven.

What primary sources say:

  • Google (Search Central, "AI features and your website"): AI Overviews and AI Mode have no additional technical requirements. A page must be indexed and eligible for a snippet. The usual advice applies: helpful, reliable, people-first content, and structured data that matches visible text.
  • GEO study (Aggarwal et al., KDD 2024): adding cited sources, quotations and statistics raised visibility in generative answers by up to ~40% on their benchmark, with effects varying by domain. Keyword stuffing did not help.

Crawler access (check first — blocked means uncitable)

Engine Search/citation crawler (allow for citation) Training-only crawler (independent choice)
OpenAI / ChatGPT search OAI-SearchBot (plus ChatGPT-User for user-triggered fetches) GPTBot
Anthropic / Claude Claude-SearchBot (plus Claude-User) ClaudeBot
Perplexity PerplexityBot (plus Perplexity-User) n/a
Google AI Overviews / AI Mode Googlebot (normal Search indexing) Google-Extended (Gemini training; does not affect Search)
Microsoft Copilot Bingbot n/a

Blocking a training crawler does not block citation, and the reverse also holds. Check robots.txt, the WAF/CDN bot rules and any noindex or nosnippet. A CDN "block AI bots" toggle often blocks the search crawlers too. No major engine has confirmed that it uses llms.txt, so treat that file as optional and never as a fix.

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 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. 20d ago Changed · +37 lines · +17 tokens per session 221b632982fc
  2. 1mo 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 20d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 1,571 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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