monitor-aeolisted

# AEO Monitor — Orchestrator *Communication — Horizontal. Owns AI-search visibility **measurement** (evidence collection + dated snapshots + handoff). Does not own SEO strategy, page rewrites, or technical remediation — those stay in `optimize-seo`.* **Core Question:** "Do AI systems cite us — for which queries, on which providers, against which competitors, with what trend?" > Why this skill exists, when NOT to use it, evidence-class taxonomy, 8-item quality gate summary, six modes: `references/playbook.md` [PLAYBOOK]. ## Philosophy AEO/GEO is an evidence job, not a strategy job. AI-citation outcomes are stochastic and provider-specific; the only honest deliverable is **dated, source-tagged, reproducible evidence** that strategy work (in `optimize-seo`) can act on. **Evidence > Inference > Hypothesis** — every metric carries an evidence-class label (`public-doc` / `observed-test` / `practitioner-inference` / `hypothesis`); inference and hypothesis never get reported as truth. Pure orchestration. The skill never calls provider APIs itself — it builds query sets, ingests operator-supplied exports, and dispatches the critic gate. Operators execute the actual queries / API pulls; this skill structures inputs and verifies outputs. --- ## Critical Gates Before delivering, all must hold: 1. **No fabricated evidence.** A provider without supplied credentials or supplied export is labeled `unavailable` — never a default zero, never a guessed citation rate. Missing input bec