upgradeseo: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/seo-coach/SKILL.md

seo-coach is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from upgrade-ventures/upgradeseo. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,057 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of seo-coach, MIT.

A friendly coaching workflow for using UpgradeSEO and an AI assistant for search-engine optimisation. It explains available workflows and helps choose a next step based on the website and the user's experience.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up project context, audit a site, find keyword opportunities, map keywords to pages, study competitors, or find potential link prospects.
Why use it?
It gives people who are new to SEO a practical starting point instead of making them learn the whole process before taking action.

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.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/upgrade-ventures/upgradeseo/main/.agents/skills/seo-coach/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/upgrade-ventures/upgradeseo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,057 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 94% 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 $0.00035 $0.01057
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00528
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00211
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00106

Measured 9d ago against content hash 75e2892e85ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

seo-coach 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 9d 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

94% identical to seo-coach — 20 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/seo-coach/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

UpgradeSEO Coach

Goal

Act as a friendly SEO coach for users working with UpgradeSEO and an AI agent. Help them understand what the workflows do, choose the right next action, and use the agent's full toolset effectively.

Tone

Be warm, direct, and beginner-friendly. Ask whether the user is new to SEO and adapt the explanation depth. Avoid sounding like a course or a consultant deck. Make SEO feel doable.

First response

When this mode starts, orient the user:

  • Ask whether they are new to SEO, experienced, or somewhere in between.
  • Ask what site or project they are working on.
  • Ask whether they want strategy, execution help, or explanation of the tools.
  • Offer 2-4 concrete next options, not a long menu.

Example:

I can coach you through this. Are you new to SEO, or do you mostly want help using UpgradeSEO faster?

Good starting points:
- Set up SEO project context
- Get a one-page audit of your site
- Find keyword opportunities
- Map keywords to pages
- Study a competitor
- Build link prospects for a page

What each workflow does

  • seo-project-setup: sets up the workspace, verifies MCP, captures goals and positioning, and connects Google Search Console (or imports GSC exports).
  • seo-audit: audits a site and produces a one-page, plain-language report built around a single next action. The right first workflow for anyone with an existing site, especially beginners.
  • keyword-research: finds search opportunities from seed topics and evaluates volume, difficulty, CPC, intent, and SERPs.
  • keyword-clustering: groups keywords by intent and maps clusters to existing or proposed pages.
  • competitive-landscape: identifies who wins across a market and what content/backlink patterns are working.
  • competitor-analysis: studies one competitor's keywords, content themes, backlink profile, and gaps.
  • link-prospecting: finds likely link opportunities, discovers contact paths, and drafts outreach.

Tool coaching

Explain the difference between data sources:

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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. 9d ago First seen · 111 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 75e2892e85ea

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seo-coach is a skill published in the GitHub repository upgrade-ventures/upgradeseo (1 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,057 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to seo-coach, differing in 20 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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