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Answer-ready content (AEO) skill

Restructure pages so AI assistants can quote them: direct answers, facts, sources, E-E-A-T signals and schema.

Free · MIT licence · Copy needs a free sign-in

Category
AI search
Works with
Claude, Codex, Cursor, any agent
Format
SKILL.md · 2,052 words
Version
v0.2.0
Price
Free · MIT

The Answer-ready content (AEO) skill file

cmo-aeo-content/SKILL.md2,052 words · MIT
---
name: cmo-aeo-content
description: Restructure pages so AI assistants can quote them: direct answers, facts, sources, E-E-A-T signals and schema.
---

AI assistants quote passages, not whole pages. Maggie restructures a page so each key question is answered plainly near the top of its section, claims are specific and sourced, the author and date are visible, and the structure (headings, lists, tables, FAQ, schema) makes extraction easy, without making the page worse for people. Good AEO is good SEO written clearly: Google states its AI features run on the same ranking and quality systems as Search, so there is no separate "AI version" of a page.

When to use

  • A page ranks or deserves to, but AI answers cite someone else.
  • An audit (cmo-ai-visibility-audit) named a page to improve for a prompt.
  • Publishing a comparison, pricing, "best for" or how-to page.
  • Checking a CMO.so draft before it goes out.

Not for: writing a new post from scratch (cmo-blog-writing), markup implementation (cmo-schema-markup), a broad refresh of a decaying post (cmo-content-refresh) or finding which page to fix (cmo-ai-visibility-audit).

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Adapts open work by AgriciDaniel/claude-seo (MIT), zubair-trabzada/geo-seo-claude (MIT), hyperfx-ai/marketing-skills (MIT), garmeeh/next-seo (MIT), PostHog/posthog (MIT), janreges/siteone-crawler (MIT).

Everyday usage

How people use Answer-ready content (AEO) day to day

Ask in plain words. The agent picks this skill, asks for anything it needs and hands back the result. Words in a highlight are yours to change.

Most common · also on the AI search page

Make pages AI can quote

Your pages restructured with direct answers, facts and sources that assistants can lift.

Ask your agentRewrite my pricing page so AI assistants can quote it accurately.
  • An answer-readiness score with the gaps per section
  • A section-by-section rewrite plan or rewritten text
  • FAQ block and JSON-LD suggestions
  • With CMO.so: the draft updated, or a rewrite of the live article requested

More things to ask

  • Make this page easier for AI to quote
  • Optimise this article for AI answers
  • Our page ranks on Google but AI never cites it
  • Rewrite this post so ChatGPT and Perplexity cite it
  • Add an FAQ and schema for AI search
  • Is this draft answer-ready?
How it works

From input to output

  1. 1You give it
    • The page: a published article URL, a CMO.so draft id, or pasted text
    • The questions (prompts) the page should answer
    • Facts, data and sources the user can stand behind; author details
  2. 2It works through the method
    • Asks what's missing, one question at a time
    • Follows the workflow step by step
    • Checks the result against its quality bar and guardrails
  3. 3You get
    • An answer-readiness score with the gaps per section
    • A section-by-section rewrite plan or rewritten text
    • FAQ block and JSON-LD suggestions
    • With CMO.so: the draft updated, or a rewrite of the live article requested
Why a skill

The skill against the alternatives

Do it yourselfHire helpAnswer-ready content (AEO) skill
CostYour own timeAgency or freelancer feesFree, MIT licence
Time to a first resultHours, every timeDays to weeks, plus revisionsMinutes, in your agent
ConsistencyDepends on remembering every stepAs long as the retainer lastsSame steps and checks every run
The methodIn your headTheir process, often hiddenWritten down: read it, change it
Who does the workYou, from scratchSomeone learning your businessYour agent, following the skill
FAQ

Questions about the Answer-ready content (AEO) skill

What it does, what it needs and how to use it with your agent.

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What is the Answer-ready content (AEO) skill?

Restructure pages so AI assistants can quote them: direct answers, facts, sources, E-E-A-T signals and schema.

It's one of cmo.so's open AI search skills: a SKILL.md file that tells an AI agent when to use it, what to ask you first, the steps to follow, the checks to pass and what to hand back, so the job is done the same careful way every time.

When should I use it?

Reach for it when you'd otherwise say something like “Make this page easier for AI to quote”, “Optimise this article for AI answers / AEO”, “Our page ranks on Google but AI never cites it”. Your agent reads the skill's description and picks it for requests like these, so you don't need to name it.

If a request is close but not quite right, the skill says so and points to the related skill that fits better, instead of forcing a poor answer.

What do I need to give it?

It works best with the page: a published article URL, a CMO.so draft id, or pasted text; the questions (prompts) the page should answer; and facts, data and sources the user can stand behind; author details.

You don't have to prepare everything up front. The skill asks for missing pieces one at a time and says plainly when it's working from an assumption instead of your data.

What do I get back?

You get an answer-readiness score with the gaps per section; a section-by-section rewrite plan or rewritten text; fAQ block and JSON-LD suggestions; and with CMO.so: the draft updated, or a rewrite of the live article requested.

Every result comes from a written method with a quality bar, so numbers name their source, claims are checked and the output is ready to use or share rather than a rough draft.

Is it free?

Yes. The skill is open source under the MIT licence, so you can use it, change it and share it, including for client work.

Seeing, copying and downloading the whole file on cmo.so needs a free sign-in. Copying also upvotes and saves it, so you can find it again under Saved on the skills page.

Which AI agents can use it?

Claude Code installs it from the cmo.so marketplace. Any agent that reads SKILL.md folders, such as Codex or Cursor, can use it once the folder is in its skills directory.

You can also paste the copied skill into ChatGPT, Claude or any assistant at the start of a conversation and ask it to follow the skill.

How do I install it?

In Claude Code, run /plugin marketplace add AI-Marketing-OS-LTD/cmo-so-skills, then /plugin install cmo-so-ai-search@cmo-so. That installs this skill together with the rest of the AI search group.

For other agents, sign in, press Copy or Download above and put the file in your agent's skills folder as SKILL.md inside a folder named after the skill.

Do I need a cmo.so account to use it?

No. The skill works on its own with whatever your agent can already see and do: your files, the pages you share and the data you paste in.

With cmo.so connected it can go further, using tools such as post_get, draft_update, rewrite_request, posts_list through the MCP server. Every change is previewed and confirmed before it happens.

Which skills work well with it?

It pairs well with Schema markup; and AI visibility audit. The agent can hand over from one to the next in the same conversation, for example research first, then the plan, then the writing.

Each of them has its own page with what it needs and what it returns, linked below.

Can I change it to fit my business?

Yes. It's a plain Markdown file, so you can edit the steps, add your own checks and examples, and keep your version in your own repo. The MIT licence allows it.

If your change would help others too, suggest it on the skills page or open a pull request on GitHub, and it may be folded into the library for everyone.

Where does the method come from?

It's written by cmo.so and adapts open work by others, credited on this page: AgriciDaniel/claude-seo (MIT); zubair-trabzada/geo-seo-claude (MIT); and hyperfx-ai/marketing-skills (MIT).

Only permissively licensed work is adapted; copyleft repos are used for ideas only and repos without a licence aren't used at all.

Is my data sent to cmo.so when the agent uses it?

No. The skill only guides your own agent; your files, documents and data stay wherever your agent and its tools keep them.

cmo.so only sees what you connect to cmo.so. Your votes and saves on this page are stored against your cmo.so sign-in.

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