optimizing-for-generative-engines — independently scanned and version-tracked by SaferSkills.
SaferSkills independently audited optimizing-for-generative-engines (Agent Skill) and scored it 100/100 (green). The audit ran 55 deterministic rules across Security, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Transparency, and Community; it found 0 high-severity and 0 lower-severity findings. The full rule-by-rule trace and per-finding evidence are below. Free, methodology-open.
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Every scanned point with the score it earned and what moved between them.
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The primary manifest — the file an agent reads to learn what this artifact does.
Generative Engine Optimization is on-page work for the AI-search era. Same craft as classic SEO — read the page, find the gaps, fix them in place — but the priorities shift: LLMs reward quotable claims, structured answers, author credibility, and freshness far more than they reward classic keyword density [1][6][8].
Why now: AI platforms now take 15–20% of informational query volume away from traditional search [3], non-branded informational traffic is down 15–30% across content sites [3], and only 11% of websites earn citations from both ChatGPT and Perplexity [4] — meaning per-platform tuning is real, not cosmetic.
This is the skill that makes a page citable. Pair it with auditing-technical-seo (crawler access) and adding-schema-markup (structured data) for the full stack.
Audit the page for each. Gaps are the edit list.
FAQPage schema.ItemList schema; Article + ItemList + FAQPage "triple-stack" is a measured citation booster [2].Person schema is table stakes — content from authors with visible credentials receives 40% more citations [8]. 96% of AI Overview citations come from sources with strong E-E-A-T signals [8]. 45% of most-cited pages use `Person` schema; 47% use `BreadcrumbList` [4].dateModified in schema. Content updated within 12 months earns 3.2× more citations than content older than 24 months [4]; pages refreshed within the last 3 months get cited ~2× more often [9]. Citations decay fast — fresh-content topics churn citation choices on a ~14-day window.Each engine surfaces different sources. Don't optimize for one and assume coverage.
Google-Extended robots policy is load-bearing (covered in auditing-technical-seo). Only 38% of AI Overview citations come from top-10 ranked pages [2] — meaning AI Overviews surface long-tail and structured content classic SEO underrates.geo-check MCP is available, run a citation poll across ChatGPT / Claude / Perplexity for the page's target queries before edits. Capture the snapshot.dateModified to today, ensure Article + Person (author) + Organization (publisher) are present; add FAQPage and ItemList where the content shape supports them. See adding-schema-markup.geo-check to measure citation lift. Brands following structured GEO see citation rates climb from near-zero to double-digit % within 60 days [2].Disallow: / against User-agent: * blocks ClaudeBot too. Cross-reference auditing-technical-seo for the correct stanza.| If your goal is... | Do this |
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| Get cited in ChatGPT | FAQ block + Wikipedia/Reddit presence + encyclopedic phrasing |
| Get cited in Perplexity | Fresh dateModified + clear stat-with-source claims + 4–8 distinct citable points |
| Get cited by Claude | Author bio + Person/Organization schema + reasoning structure |
| Rank in Google AI Overviews | Article + ItemList + FAQPage triple-stack + recency + E-E-A-T signals |
| Defend a mature page from citation decay | Quarterly recency refresh + re-poll cadence + decay-watch on geo-check |
Cross-cutting. Fires per-page on growth content (3–12 months) once GEO patterns are worth measuring; becomes critical on mature content (12+ months) where citation defense replaces traffic growth as the dominant value driver. Pair with refreshing-stale-content for the recurring cadence.
Citations and verification tags in SOURCES.md.
~30 seconds. Free. No account. Every finding cites a rule and a line of evidence.