search-intent

search-intent is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ZensInk/zens-ink-seo-package. It costs 99 tokens per session (649 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A search-intent classifier that identifies whether a keyword seeks information, comparison, purchase, or a specific site. It also checks Google search results, known as the SERP, to see what kinds of pages actually rank.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before writing pages or planning content, and to classify keyword lists in batches. It helps decide between guides, comparisons, product pages, and other page types.
Why use it?
It prevents choosing the wrong page format based only on the words in a keyword. Comparing two methods highlights cases where searchers’ wording and Google’s results disagree.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it before writing pages or planning content, and to classify keyword lists in batches. It helps decide between guides, comparisons, product pages, and other page types.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zensink/zens-ink-seo-package/search-intent
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 search-intent
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 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 649 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 $0.00099 $0.00649
Opus 5.5 $0.00040 $0.00260
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00065

Measured 2d ago against content hash d2632a1ec6e5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

search-intent 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/search-intent/SKILL.md · 79 lines

What it actually says

Search intent, cross-validated

Two layers: what the words say (keyword-based) and what Google rewards (SERP-based). When they disagree, believe the SERP.

When to use

  • Before writing a page for a target keyword — decides page TYPE.
  • "Is 'seo audit tool' informational or transactional?"
  • Batch-classifying a keyword list for a content plan.

When NOT to use

  • Pure navigational brand queries ("gmail login") — classification is trivial and useless for planning.

Setup

pip install zens-ink

Keyword layer needs no keys. SERP layer needs SERPER_API_KEY (free tier at serper.dev).

Commands

# Keyword-based, batch, no key needed
python3 -m zens_ink.search_intent "buy running shoes" "how to tie shoes" --json
python3 -m zens_ink.search_intent --file keywords.txt

# SERP-based verification (what ranks?)
python3 -m zens_ink.serp_intent "seo audit tool"
python3 -m zens_ink.serp_intent "seo 审计工具" --zh
python3 -m zens_ink.serp_intent "best crm" --cross   # cross-check keyword verdict

How to read the results

  • informational → guide/post format, long-form, capture with newsletter.
  • commercial → comparison/best-of format, affiliate or demo CTA.
  • transactional → product/landing page, pricing visible, minimal prose.
  • navigational → usually not targetable; only worth it for brand terms.

When keyword verdict and SERP verdict disagree: the SERP is ground truth — Google already ran the experiment with real searchers.

Page-type mismatch is the #1 reason good content never ranks. A landing page cannot win a SERP that rewards 2,000-word guides, and vice versa.

Next steps

  • Intent confirmed → keyword-difficulty for the go/no-go.
  • Building the page → site-audit skill catches technical issues before ship.

Going deeper

ZensInk Pro adds a semantic arbitration layer (typed AI judgments with confidence scores) that resolves keyword-vs-SERP conflicts automatically: https://zens.ink/pricing/

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 · 79 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A d2632a1ec6e5

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search-intent is a skill published in the GitHub repository ZensInk/zens-ink-seo-package (53 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 649 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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