External Authority Placement Scout
Find and score legitimate external authority and backlink opportunities as a dry-run register, using relevance, platform rules, risk, target-page fit, and explicit user approval gates. Use this skill when the user asks where links to a target site could be placed effectively, but never post, submit, DM, email, open PRs, or edit external accounts without separate explicit approval.
Install
$ agentstack add skill-sergekostenchuk-ui-ux-agent-skill-system-external-authority-placement-scout ✓ scanned · ✓ verified, works with Claude Code, Cursor, and more.
Security review
✓ PassedNo issues found. Passed automated security review. · v0.1.0 How review works →
- ✓ Prompt-injection patterns
- ✓ Secret / credential exfiltration
- ✓ Dangerous shell & filesystem operations
- ✓ Untrusted network calls
- ✓ Known-malicious package signatures
What it can access
- ✓ Network access No
- ✓ Filesystem access No
- ✓ Shell / process execution No
- ✓ Environment & secrets No
- ✓ Dynamic code execution No
From automated source analysis of v0.1.0. “Used” means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it’s unsafe.
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Declared compatibility
Compatibility is declared by the source manifest. End-to-end runtime verification is coming, see below.
We're building live execution health for every listing: tool-call success rate, median latency, uptime, and last-checked timestamps, measured, not self-reported. It isn't live yet, so we don't show numbers we can't stand behind.
How agent discovery & health will work →About
External Authority Placement Scout
Use this skill only after the white-hat authority policy exists.
Read $HOME/SKILL/plans/seo-llm-skill-cluster/authority/white-hat-authority-policy.md before creating an opportunity register.
Read [references/scouting-workflow.md](references/scouting-workflow.md) for candidate sources, required register fields, and draft rules.
Owns
- dry-run opportunity discovery;
- opportunity register rows;
- relevance and target-fit scoring;
- platform-rule checklist;
- approval-gated outreach or submission drafts;
- handoff to backlink-quality-validator.
Does Not Own
- external posting;
- account edits;
- PR creation;
- email/DM sending;
- buying links;
- spam automation;
- final quality validation after a link exists.
Workflow
- Define target site, target pages, audience, and allowed opportunity categories.
- Collect candidate opportunities from user-provided platforms or approved public research.
- Check relevance, user value, target fit, and policy risk.
- Record platform-rule status and whether current official/public rules must be rechecked.
- Create register rows matching the opportunity schema.
- Draft optional human-review text only when useful.
- Require explicit user approval before any external action.
- Hand off existing or proposed placements to
backlink-quality-validator.
Non-Negotiables
- Dry-run by default.
- Do not post links anywhere.
- Do not open PRs.
- Do not send outreach.
- Do not create accounts.
- Do not recommend PBNs, link farms, fake reviews, fake accounts, mass profile creation, hidden links, or irrelevant directories.
- Do not use exact-match anchor stuffing.
- Do not claim authority impact without evidence.
Safety And Privacy Boundaries
- Do not store platform credentials, private messages, contact lists, cookies, or tokens.
- Do not scrape platforms against their rules.
- Do not include private account data in reports.
- If the user approves a future external action, create a separate task with platform, draft, approval, rollback/removal path, and monitoring plan.
Output Shape
Return:
- Scope and target pages.
- Opportunity register table.
- Scoring rationale.
- Platform-rule status and verification needs.
- Draft text if requested, clearly marked as draft only.
- Blocked opportunities and reasons.
- Approval required before action.
Validation
Validate skill edits with:
python3 $CODEX_HOME/skills/senior-skill-architect/scripts/lint_production_skill.py $HOME/SKILL/skills/external-authority-placement-scout
python3 $HOME/SKILL/plans/seo-llm-skill-cluster/scripts/lint_skill_cluster.py $HOME/SKILLForward tests live in [evals.json](evals.json).
Source & license
This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.
- Author: sergekostenchuk
- Source: sergekostenchuk/ui-ux-agent-skill-system
- License: Apache-2.0
Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.
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Versions
- v0.1.0 Imported from the upstream source.