seo-keyword-research

seo-keyword-research is a skill for Claude Code from Varnan-Tech/opendirectory. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,740 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for finding search terms that people are starting to look for on Google. It uses Google Trends data to plan blog topics and article structures for technology and developer audiences.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before writing blog posts, planning a content calendar, or improving an article for search engines.
Why use it?
It helps avoid writing about broad topics without checking which related searches are growing or offer a timely opportunity.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the opendirectory plugin — 58 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it before writing blog posts, planning a content calendar, or improving an article for search engines.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/varnan-tech/opendirectory/seo-keyword-research
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 Varnan-Tech/opendirectory --skill seo-keyword-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Varnan-Tech/opendirectory

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install opendirectory, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 58 skills.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,740 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

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  • medium Excessive Agency · line 186
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00056 $0.01740
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00870
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00348
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00174

Measured 11d ago against content hash 5c8b66af4b58, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

seo-keyword-research 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/blog_seo_research.py), 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

allowed-tools: Bash(python:*) Bash(curl:*) Read
skills/google-trends-api-skills/seo-keyword-research/SKILL.md · 206 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SEO Keyword Research Skill

Find trending, high-opportunity keywords BEFORE writing blog content. This skill turns generic blog topics into SEO-optimized content that ranks.

When to Use

  • User asks to write a blog post or article
  • User wants keyword research for a topic
  • User needs a content calendar or content plan
  • User wants to optimize existing content for SEO
  • Any blog generation task for a tech/developer-focused audience

Core Principle

Always research keywords BEFORE generating blog content.

BAD:  Write blog -> Hope it ranks -> Usually doesn't
GOOD: Research keywords -> Find breakout opportunity -> Write optimized blog -> Ranks well

Keyword Priority System

When analyzing Google Trends RELATED_QUERIES results, prioritize keywords in this order:

1. Breakout Keywords — HIGHEST priority

  • formatted_value: "Breakout" = 5000%+ growth
  • Very low competition (trend is new)
  • Use as PRIMARY blog keyword
  • Create content IMMEDIATELY (first-mover advantage)

2. High-Growth Keywords — VERY HIGH priority

  • formatted_value: "+100%" or higher
  • Low to moderate competition
  • Use as primary or strong secondary keyword
  • Create content within 2-4 weeks

3. Moderate-Growth Keywords — HIGH priority

  • formatted_value: "+50%" to "+99%"
  • Moderate competition
  • Use as secondary keywords in body content

4. Long-Tail Keywords — STRATEGIC priority

  • Question-based queries (how, what, why, when, where)
  • Low competition, high conversion
  • Use as H3 headings — target featured snippets and voice search

5. Established Keywords — MODERATE priority

  • Top queries with stable interest, high competition
  • Use in body content, not as primary target

SEO Research Workflow

Step 1: Keyword Discovery (1 API call — REQUIRED)

Query RELATED_QUERIES with the user's blog topic:

curl -s "https://serpapi.com/search?engine=google_trends&q=USER_TOPIC&data_type=RELATED_QUERIES&date=today+3-m&api_key=$SERPAPI_KEY"

From the response, extract:

  • Breakout keywords → candidate primary keywords
  • High-growth keywords (+100%) → secondary candidates
  • Question-based queries → H3 headings and featured snippet targets

Read the full file on GitHub · 206 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 11d ago First seen · 206 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 5c8b66af4b58

Subscribe to this mod's changes

seo-keyword-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository Varnan-Tech/opendirectory (639 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,740 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

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