rank-tracking

rank-tracking is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ZensInk/zens-ink-seo-package. It costs 93 tokens per session (806 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A search-performance tracker that saves keyword ranking snapshots, reads Google Search Console data, and looks up Ahrefs Domain Rating. Google Search Console is Google's service for reporting a site's search impressions, clicks, and positions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for recurring keyword checks, ranking trends, search-query and page reports, and domain comparisons.
Why use it?
It keeps ranking history in one place instead of relying on isolated checks. It also compares keyword positions with the queries and pages that bring real Google traffic.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for recurring keyword checks, ranking trends, search-query and page reports, and domain comparisons.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zensink/zens-ink-seo-package/rank-tracking
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 ZensInk/zens-ink-seo-package --skill rank-tracking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ZensInk/zens-ink-seo-package

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 806 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 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 $0.00093 $0.00806
Opus 5.5 $0.00037 $0.00322
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00081

Measured 2d ago against content hash ac21fb4665b8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rank-tracking 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 2d 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.

skills/rank-tracking/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Rankings, GSC performance, DR

Three data legs: rank snapshots over time (SQLite), GSC ground truth, and DR lookups for sizing up any domain.

When to use

  • "Track these 10 keywords weekly"
  • "What queries actually bring me clicks?" (GSC)
  • "What's the DR of these 5 domains?"

When NOT to use

  • Daily rank checks on a big keyword set — rank checks cost SERP quota; weekly cadence is the intended rhythm.

Setup

pip install zens-ink
python3 -m zens_ink.setup_gsc   # one-time GSC auth (for search_performance)

Keys in .env: SERPER_API_KEY (rank checks), GSC_* (Search Console), AHREFS_API_KEY (DR lookups — free public API).

Commands

# Rankings with history
python3 -m zens_ink.rank_tracker add "open source seo tools,seo cli tool"
python3 -m zens_ink.rank_tracker check      # snapshot now
python3 -m zens_ink.rank_tracker trend       # latest vs previous
python3 -m zens_ink.rank_tracker history "seo cli tool"

# GSC performance (real data, read-only)
python3 -m zens_ink.search_performance --queries --limit 30
python3 -m zens_ink.search_performance --pages
python3 -m zens_ink.search_performance --page /pricing/ --start 2026-09-01

# Domain Rating (free Ahrefs public API, cached locally)
python3 -m zens_ink.domain_rating zens.ink competitor.com
python3 -m zens_ink.domain_rating --file domains.txt --csv dr.csv

Real DR output:

  Domain Rating | 1 target(s) | Data: Domain Rating by Ahrefs (https://ahrefs.com/)

  [1/1] zens.ink                                 DR 21

Attribution note: DR output must keep the "Domain Rating by Ahrefs" credit line — it is a license requirement of the free API.

How to read the results

  • GSC position 5-30 with impressions = quick-win zone: pages Google already likes. Improve title/on-page, add internal links, re-index.
  • Position 30+ with impressions = crawling fine, ranking weak — content or authority problem, not technical.
  • Impressions with zero clicks across the board = title/snippet problem.
  • DR: compare against the sites actually ranking for your target keywords, not industry averages. Results cache in dr-cache.json; --no-cache to refresh.

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 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. 2d ago First seen · 93 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A ac21fb4665b8

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rank-tracking is a skill published in the GitHub repository ZensInk/zens-ink-seo-package (53 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 806 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-15.

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