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.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/upgrade-ventures/upgradeseo/main/.agents/skills/seo-coach/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/upgrade-ventures/upgradeseoWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/upgrade-ventures/upgradeseo/seo-coach)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/upgrade-ventures/upgradeseo/seo-coach"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/upgrade-ventures/upgradeseo/seo-coach/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/upgrade-ventures/upgradeseo/seo-coach"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/upgrade-ventures/upgradeseo/seo-coach.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once 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 |
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.
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.
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:
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 111 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 75e2892e85ea
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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