cf-aeo-checklisted
Install: claude install-skill teachskillofskills-ai/ContentForge-techshu
# AEO Citation Check — Post-Publication
Close the loop that `/contentforge:cf-brief` opens. The brief checks AI Overview presence and citation patterns **before** production; this skill verifies — after publication — whether the piece actually earned citations, tracks the trend across re-checks, and routes losses to `/contentforge:content-refresh` with specific evidence.
## Honest scope — read before promising anything
- **What this skill measures directly:** Google SERP state for the target queries via web search (AI Overview present? which domains are cited/visible? does the piece rank?), and on-page extractability of the published URL via web fetch (definition block intact, dates visible, schema present, metrics tables surviving the CMS).
- **What it cannot measure directly:** citations inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini or Copilot answers — there is no public API for "was I cited," and probing chat UIs is not reproducible. Cross-engine measurement needs a third-party tracker (Profound, Otterly, Conductor AgentStack, HubSpot AEO — same list the Phase 6 optimizer names). **If such a connector is available in the tool list, use it and label the data's source; if not, say plainly that engine coverage is Google-observable-only.** Never present an estimate as a measurement.
## When to Use
Use `/contentforge:cf-aeo-check` when:
- A piece published **2+ weeks ago** and you want to know if AI engines are citing it (earlier checks mostly measure indexing lag, not merit)
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