SKILL.md · Claude Code, Cursor, Codex
search-change-triage
description
Use every Monday, or when traffic / rankings / AI Overviews / AI citations moved, to classify the external search change and then choose wait, watch, or act. Never "rewrite everything" off a wobble. Not a property performance report.
- What it does
- A 15-minute Monday pass over the official boards that sorts each change and ends in a single call: wait, watch, or act. No panic rewrites.
- Where it stops
- Never "rewrite everything" off a wobble. Not a property performance report.
One-time payment. The zip has all 11 skill folders with their references.
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- name: search-change-triage
- description: Use every Monday, or when traffic / rankings / AI Overviews / AI citations moved, to classify the external search change and then choose wait, watch, or act. Never "rewrite everything" off a wobble. Not a property performance report.
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- # Weekly search-change triage
- Classify what actually changed, then prescribe wait / measure / act. Never "rewrite everything" off a wobble.
- Official boards first, trade press second, vendor blogs last. Keep your own dated watchlist of the live URLs below, and write a short dated research note when a run finds material change, so the next run starts from it.
- Search Console dates are **Pacific Time**. Convert them to the reader's time zone before reporting.
- ## 1. Official boards (15 minutes)
The other 10 skills in the pack
- technical-seo-2026-delta
Use when a site needs only the 2025–2026 Google/Bing technical changes checked (generative eligibility, snippet controls, dead rich results, crawler split, new Search Console reports and measurement caveats, EEA site-reputation split, regional SERP units, emergency crawl-rate controls).
- aeo-answer-surface-playbook
Use when the goal is to own the answer unit on a named results/answer surface (featured snippet, PAA, AI Overview, Copilot, Perplexity), especially when the site already ranks and still loses the box.
- geo-citation-playbook
Use when a brand needs to be retrieved and cited inside generative answers (ChatGPT Search, Copilot, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Mode) — per-engine eligibility, citation measurement, third-party corroboration.
- programmatic-seo-gate
Use when someone wants template, location, integration, comparison, directory, or other pages at scale (programmatic SEO) and needs a 2026 allow/refuse decision with a page cap.
- site-ia-map
Use for a hub/spoke, cannibalization, one-URL-per-intent, internal-links, or site information-architecture job (live remap or greenfield).
- gsc-growth-review
Use when the ask is a Google Search Console period review and a qualitative SEO growth judgment for a named property.
- seo-agent-design
Use when someone asks you to build an SEO / AEO / GEO agent or content bot and you need its safety contract (tools, approve path, refuse list) before any code.
- how-to-site-factory
Use when building or rebuilding a vertical how-to / niche publisher site with a coding agent (repo, stack defaults, SEO defaults, image, accuracy and byline rules).
- linkedin-post-system
Use when designing a repeatable LinkedIn publishing system (topics, formats, cadence, review) that stays inside LinkedIn's 2026 rules, e.g. for building in public.
- skill-review
Use when auditing, tightening, or deciding whether to keep one agent SKILL.md.