research-keywords

research-keywords is a skill for Claude Code from tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit. It costs 46 tokens per session (4,157 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of research-keywords, MIT.

A research workflow for finding and prioritising SEO and GEO keywords using web searches, AI analysis, and optionally tools such as Ahrefs or Semrush. SEO helps pages appear in search engines; GEO here means shaping content for answers produced by generative AI systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a brand's search opportunities, compare competitors, and produce a keyword file for a content pipeline.
Why use it?
It turns scattered search research into a validated CSV file with a fixed structure for later content work. It also separates short target keywords from longer blog topics.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the second-brain-skills plugin — 248 skills, 3 agents, 1 plugin shipped together

Good fit Use it to research a brand's search opportunities, compare competitors, and produce a keyword file for a content pipeline.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/research-keywords
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 tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit --skill research-keywords
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install second-brain-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 248 skills, 3 agents, 1 plugin.

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 research-keywords

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/research-keywords/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/research-keywords)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/research-keywords"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/research-keywords/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for research-keywords

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/research-keywords"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/research-keywords.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,157 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 100% 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 $0.00046 $0.04157
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.01663
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00831
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00416

Measured 6d ago against content hash 226053c3aef5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-keywords 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/keyword-explorer.mjs, scripts/serp-analyzer.mjs), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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

100% identical to research-keywords — 16 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/research-keywords/SKILL.md · 329 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 329 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research SEO/GEO Keywords

You are an expert keyword researcher who finds high-value keywords for both traditional SEO and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO). You use web search and AI analysis — and optionally integrate paid tool data (Ahrefs, Semrush) when the user has it.

Your job: take a brand's product, website, and competitive context, then research and deliver a prioritized keyword list as a strict CSV artifact ready for the content pipeline.

Output contract: Your final response text IS the deliverable. It MUST be raw CSV matching keywords.csv.schema.md exactly. No prose, no code fences, no explanation around the CSV. The harness captures your final output verbatim, validates it against the schema, and fails the artifact if the shape is wrong. See Phase 5 for the exact format.

Critical rule: SEO target keywords must be 1-3 words. Longer phrases (4+ words) go in the Blog Topics section. Keywords longer than 3 words almost never have search volume in tools like Ahrefs — they waste space on the list and won't rank.


How This Skill Works

You will walk through 5 phases:

  1. Brand Intelligence — Understand the product, audience, and positioning
  2. Keyword Discovery — Cast a wide net using multiple research methods
  3. Validation & Pruning — Kill dead keywords, integrate paid tool data if available
  4. Analysis & Clustering — Group, evaluate, and prioritize
  5. Deliverable — Output the final keyword list as a structured file

At each phase, you will:

  • Ask the user specific questions (Phases 1, 3)
  • Do research using web search (Phases 2-4)
  • Present findings and get confirmation
  • Then move to the next phase

Phase 1: Brand Intelligence

Start here every time. Ask the user for:

Required

  1. Product/brand name and website URL
  2. What it does — one-sentence description
  3. Target customer — who buys this and what problem it solves
  4. Top 2-3 competitors — brands or products users compare against

Read the full file on GitHub · 329 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 6d ago Changed 226053c3aef5
  2. 19d ago Changed · -1 lines e5098cdb2e31
  3. 24d ago Changed · +13 lines 4ff141d1c36e
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 317 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A fe8067c7b15a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research-keywords is a skill published in the GitHub repository tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit (12 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 4,157 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to research-keywords, differing in 16 lines, and is treated as a copy.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

wiki-retrieve

Build and query a vault-local contextual BM25 retrieval index with optional multilingual Nomic cosine reranking; use for retrieve, hybrid retrieval, BM25, rerank, contextual retrieval, chunk search, vault search, semantic search, find relevant passages, or retrieval diagnostics. Derived caches stay under .vault-meta…

AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian · 81 tokens

defuddle

Plan optional Defuddle extraction and retain already available local source files through reviewed filesystem capture. Use for defuddle, clean this URL, strip page clutter, readable Markdown from a web page, or preparing a web source for later wiki ingestion. Network extraction remains unavailable until an enforcing…

AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian · 61 tokens

wiki-query

Answer an explicitly vault-scoped question from an Obsidian wiki without changing it. Use when the user selects the vault as the evidence source: query the wiki, query quick, query deep, explain from the wiki, summarize the vault, find in wiki, search the wiki, or based on the wiki. Do not route ordinary…

AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian · 75 tokens

wiki-fold

Create a bounded, extractive, structurally idempotent rollup of recent Obsidian wiki log entries, with dry-run preview by default and one optional transaction apply. Use for manual log compression without modifying child pages. Triggers: fold the log, run a fold, run wiki-fold, log rollup, roll up log entries, commit…

AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian · 76 tokens

wiki-cli

Detect and use the official Obsidian command-line interface for read-only vault access; use for wiki-cli, Obsidian CLI, Obsidian read, Obsidian search, vault transport, which transport, transport detection, backlinks, tags, or Obsidian command line. Mutations always go through the claude-obsidian transaction core.

AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian · 74 tokens

superbrain-distill

Internal SuperBrain skill — run by the detached capture child to distill a session-event delta into routed Obsidian notes. Not for direct user invocation.

m3talux/superbrain · 36 tokens