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keyword-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from upgrade-ventures/upgradeseo. It costs 20 tokens per session (981 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of keyword-research, MIT.

An SEO workflow for finding search terms people use, checking their search data and results pages, and saving promising opportunities. A search engine results page, or SERP, is the list of results shown after a search.

In plain words
What is it for?
Generating keywords from topics, products, competitors, or audience problems; checking metrics; reviewing rankings; and saving useful terms.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork about which topics and phrases to target. It helps compare demand, competition, intent, cost-per-click, and changes over time.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is upgrade-ventures/upgradeseo's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on upgradeseo itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything upgradeseo configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to upgrade-ventures/upgradeseo. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/upgrade-ventures/upgradeseo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 981 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 97% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

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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 $0.00020 $0.00981
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00491
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00196
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00098

Measured 8d ago against content hash 5d31e59fa975, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

keyword-research 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 8d 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

97% identical to keyword-research — 8 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.

.agents/skills/keyword-research/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

UpgradeSEO Keyword Research

Goal

Turn seed topics into a prioritized keyword opportunity set using UpgradeSEO MCP data. The output should help the user decide what to target, what to save, and what to research next.

Required inputs

  • projectId
  • One or more seed topics, products, pages, competitors, or audience problems
  • Optional market/location/language

If projectId is missing, use list_projects first. If the target market/location/language is unclear and would materially affect keyword metrics, ask the user; otherwise use the MCP tool defaults.

UpgradeSEO MCP tools

  • research_keywords: primary discovery tool. Use 1-5 seeds per call and prefer 150 results unless the user asks for exhaustive research.
  • get_keyword_metrics: hydrate up to 700 known keywords with volume, keyword difficulty (KD), search intent, CPC, and monthly trends in one call. Use it to score candidate or known terms — including the Search Console striking-distance queries from step 1.
  • get_ranked_keywords: pull exact ranking keyword rows when a target domain or page is part of the research brief.
  • get_search_console_performance: when Search Console is connected, start from the project's real first-party demand — queries already earning impressions and near-ranking ("striking distance") terms. Request a high rowLimit and filter average position 5-20 client-side, since the API sorts by clicks and can't filter by position. Then hydrate those striking-distance queries with get_keyword_metrics to attach difficulty and intent.
  • get_serp_results: inspect SERPs for the top candidate terms, especially when intent is ambiguous.
  • search_local_businesses, get_local_serp_results, and get_google_business_questions: use for local SEO topics when a business/location radius matters.
  • list_saved_keywords: avoid duplicating already-saved work or use existing tags as context.
  • save_keywords: save selected keywords only after explicit user confirmation.

Workflow

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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. 8d ago First seen · 71 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 5d31e59fa975

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keyword-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository upgrade-ventures/upgradeseo (1 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 981 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to keyword-research, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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