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Summary

  • New /generative-engine-audit skill — sibling to /seo-audit, NOT an extension. Scores how well a web project's documentation is discoverable, parsable, and citable by LLM/agent crawlers. Each remains independently invokable.
  • Two related sub-scopes documented as one skill: GEO (Generative Engine Optimization — content for LLM citations like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini) and AEO (Agentic Engine Optimization — documentation for AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, Aider, Cline). AgDR-0043 codifies the distinction so adopters know what's in vs out of v1.
  • Discovery checksllms.txt / llms-full.txt at site root, AI-crawler directives in robots.txt (12 crawlers across 5 vendors), /.well-known/ai-plugin.json, agent-permissions.json, AGENTS.md.
  • Capability-signaling check — upstream skill.md capability manifest. AgDR-0043 explicitly handles the naming clash: this is the upstream skill.md convention (capability description), distinct from Claude Code's SKILL.md (slash-command spec under .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md).
  • Content-format checks — citation-friendly JSON-LD metadata, snippet-extractable shape (Q&A at H2 boundaries, FAQ/HowTo schemas), markdown alternates, heading hierarchy (H1→H2→H3 no skipping), first-500-tokens outcome statement, prompt-injection hygiene.
  • Token economics — per-page token-count check with category thresholds (Quick Start >15K, API reference >25K, conceptual guides >20K).
  • Analytics + UX bridge — AI-traffic fingerprint advisory snippet (axios/1.8.4, curl/8.4.0, got, colly, Playwright Chromium signatures); "Copy for AI" button check.
  • /launch-check umbrella now fans out to BOTH /seo-audit AND /generative-engine-audit — the production-readiness sweep grew from 8 dimensions to 9.
  • /seo-audit cross-links to /generative-engine-audit so adopters discover the sibling pair from either entry point.

Why

The classic SEO audit optimises for Google's web-crawlers and human click patterns. The traffic mix has shifted — a meaningful slice of users now reach the web through AI agents (ChatGPT browsing, Perplexity, Claude with web search) and coding agents that fetch documentation directly. None of those workloads are visible to scroll-depth, time-on-page, or any client-side analytics — they typically issue a single GET, parse the result as text, and either succeed silently or hallucinate based on parametric knowledge if the content was too large to fit a context window. Sites already in /launch-check were flying blind on this dimension. This PR closes the gap with conservative, advisory-posture checks that report state and surface gaps without judging "AI bots = bad/good" (operator policy call).

Surfaced from industry-standard prior art on Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and Agentic Engine Optimization (AEO) and the emerging llms.txt / AGENTS.md / skill.md conventions in the developer-portal space.

Testing

bash .claude/skills/generative-engine-audit/tests/smoke.sh

51/51 pass. 16 cases, pinning:

  • SKILL.md frontmatter sanity (name:, argument-hint:, allowed-tools:)
  • All 6 check buckets documented (Discovery / Capability-signaling / Content-format / Token-economics / Analytics / UX-bridge)
  • The skill.md vs Claude Code's SKILL.md naming-clash callout (verbatim)
  • AgDR-0043 body-H1 shape, no YAML frontmatter, four canonical sections present
  • AI-crawler registry exists at .claude/registries/ai-crawlers.json, valid JSON, all 11 ticket-named crawlers present (plus 1 surfaced during research: OAI-SearchBot)
  • CLAUDE.md skill count = 52, /generative-engine-audit row present
  • docs/multi-project.md skill-behaviour table has the new row
  • /seo-audit SKILL.md cross-links to /generative-engine-audit
  • /launch-check SKILL.md fans out to both audits (sweep size 8→9, output table updated, dimension §6 added, scores{} example reflects 9 keys, project-type filtering documented)

Notes for the reviewer

  • AgDR-0043 picked deliberately. On-disk dev has AgDR-0001 to 0039 with a 0029 gap. The 0040 / 0041 / 0042 slots are reserved by recently-merged work (/codify-rule, SessionStart v2 sweep, harnessability scoring respectively); 0043 avoids the obvious collisions.
  • Skill count bumped 51 → 52. CLAUDE.md previously read "50" in the heading with 47 visible rows — a pre-existing inconsistency. Updated to 52 matching the ticket spec; the smoke test pins this so future drift gets caught.
  • AI-crawler registry has 12 entries (the 11 named in the ticket + OAI-SearchBot, the SearchGPT indexer surfaced during research). The smoke test pins the 11 ticket-named crawlers; the 12th is documented in the AgDR.
  • No specific external attribution. Per the framework's leak-protection precedent ([Refactor] Generic cleanup #303), prior-art is phrased generically as "industry-standard prior art on Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and Agentic Engine Optimization (AEO)". No external authors, blog URLs, or company attributions named in commit messages, AgDR, or PR body.
  • Worktree-cwd hygiene note: the implementation agent had an early bug where it wrote some files to the main repo's absolute path instead of the worktree. The main repo was restored to its baseline before this PR opened; the worktree carries the authoritative copies that pushed to origin. No leakage into this branch.

Out of scope (per the ticket)

  • Auto-fixing detected gaps (auto-generating llms.txt, scaffolding AGENTS.md) — adopter decision, separate ticket if useful
  • Content-quality grading for LLM extraction — too subjective for v1
  • Live testing against actual LLM crawlers — rate-limit risk + requires API keys per crawler
  • Per-LLM scoring ("more discoverable by ChatGPT than by Claude") — too speculative
  • Dedicated GEO-trend dashboard — _lib-audit-history.sh gives the data for free; UI is out of v1
  • MCP server scaffolding (only check presence)

Glossary

Term Definition
GEO Generative Engine Optimization — practice of structuring content so LLM-driven assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini) cite the site accurately and prominently
AEO Agentic Engine Optimization — practice of structuring documentation so AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Aider, Cline) can fetch, parse, and use the docs without truncation or hallucination
llms.txt Markdown manifest at site root (per llmstxt.org) that gives AI agents a structured index of the documentation. Sitemap analogue for LLMs
AGENTS.md Repository-root README analogue for AI coding agents — project structure, file locations, sandbox links, MCP server pointers. Distinct from Claude Code's CLAUDE.md (framework-level instructions)
skill.md (upstream) Capability-signaling manifest describing what an API/service can do. Distinct from Claude Code's SKILL.md (slash-command spec under .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md). AgDR-0043 codifies the naming clash to prevent confusion
AI-crawler fingerprint Distinctive HTTP signatures (user-agent, runtime) used to identify AI-agent traffic in server logs — e.g. axios/1.8.4 (Claude Code), curl/8.4.0 (Cline / Junie), got (Cursor), colly (Windsurf)
Token economics Constraint that AI agents have finite context windows (~100K–200K tokens). Documentation pages exceeding context-budget thresholds may be truncated, skipped, or trigger hallucination
Advisory posture v1 ships state-reporting + gap-surfacing checks. Does NOT judge "AI bots disallowed = bad" — that's an operator policy call. Adopter chooses whether the verdict triggers WARN or FAIL via their /launch-check config

Closes #311


Rebased onto dev (after #313 landed). Cherry-picked the 3 original commits onto current dev; resolved trivial conflicts in CLAUDE.md (skill count 51→52 — kept #311's intent) and docs/multi-project.md (kept BOTH the /codify-rule row landed via #305 AND the new /generative-engine-audit row from this PR). Smoke test 51/51 pass at new HEAD 6c34e85.... Content of the 3 #311 commits is identical to the original; one additional non-content change: the conflict resolution itself.

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Code Review: PR #315

Commit: 054a34f8655e1c7371c13e83d05f91dbb40da275

Summary

Ships /generative-engine-audit — a sibling skill to /seo-audit that audits LLM/agent discoverability of a web project's content surface. Covers GEO (LLM citations) + AEO (coding-agent consumption) across 6 check buckets (Discovery / Capability-signaling / Content-format / Token-economics / Analytics / UX), 17 checks. Adds: SKILL.md (220 lines), smoke test (51 assertions / 16 cases), .claude/registries/ai-crawlers.json (12 crawlers), AgDR-0043 (4 decision axes), audit template, and /launch-check integration (sweep 8 → 9 dimensions). Cross-links bidirectional with /seo-audit.

Checklist Results

  • Architecture & Design: Pass
  • Code Quality: Pass
  • Testing: Pass (51-assertion smoke test pins documentation contracts incl. verbatim naming-clash callouts)
  • Security: Pass (no secrets; G13 prompt-injection-hygiene check is a sound defensive addition)
  • Performance: N/A (doc + JSON only)
  • PR Description & Glossary: Pass (8 glossary entries — GEO, AEO, llms.txt, AGENTS.md, skill.md (upstream), AI-crawler fingerprint, Token economics, Advisory posture)
  • Technical Decisions (AgDR):Pass (AgDR-0043 honestly engages all 4 axes; Consequences explicitly acknowledges the v1 advisory-posture trade-off)
  • Adopter Handbooks: N/A (no rule violations; commit-message-quality handbook validated below)

Detailed findings on the load-bearing items

(2) Naming-clash callout — verbatim and triple-pinned. This is the most important documentation contract in the PR and it is handled correctly:

  • SKILL.md § "The skill.md naming clash — important" (lines 123-132 of the file) contains the full disambiguation: lowercase skill.md = upstream capability manifest at site root; uppercase SKILL.md = Claude Code slash-command spec under .claude/skills/<name>/. Explicitly addresses the case-insensitive-FS footgun (macOS / Windows).
  • AgDR-0043 § "Axis 2 — skill.md vs the existing SKILL.md" engages the choice as a first-class decision axis with all three options weighed (check + name the clash / rename / divergence cost).
  • Smoke test case 3 (assert_grep_fixed "Naming clash phrase present" "distinct from Claude Code's \SKILL.md`"`) pins the verbatim string. Future maintainers cannot silently drop the callout.

This is exactly the right shape for a load-bearing documentation contract.

(4) AgDR-0043 honesty. All four decision axes are engaged with real options-comparison tables and real trade-off acknowledgement. The Consequences/Negative section is genuinely self-critical:

Advisory posture means low-grade findings can be ignored. Some adopters will see "WARN: no llms.txt" three audits in a row and never act. This is the right failure mode for a v1 skill in a still-emerging convention space — strict mode is deferred until the underlying conventions stabilise further.

Token-count heuristic limitations (char_count / 4), registry-extension PR overhead, and the skill.md naming-clash residual confusion are all named. The conservative-posture trade-off is owned, not glossed.

(3) Crawler registry spot-check. Schema is valid JSON (schema_version: 1, description, see_also, crawlers[]). Spot-checked 5 entries:

  • GPTBot — training scope, OpenAI, correctly distinguishes from ChatGPT-User (retrieval)
  • ClaudeBot — training scope, Anthropic, correctly notes Claude-Web as the older backward-compat identifier
  • PerplexityBotscope: "both" (the only "both" entry — correctly captures Perplexity's hybrid crawl-and-cite-at-inference behaviour)
  • Google-Extended — opt-out token, correctly clarifies it does NOT remove the site from Google Search
  • Bytespider — ByteDance training, correctly attributed

All 11 ticket-named crawlers present + OAI-SearchBot (SearchGPT indexer) as the documented +1. Smoke test pins all 11 explicitly.

(7) AgDR slot 0043. Confirmed: on-disk dev shows AgDR-0001 through AgDR-0039 with a 0029 gap. PR body claims 0040 / 0041 / 0042 are reserved by recently-merged upstream work (/codify-rule, SessionStart v2 sweep, harnessability scoring). 0043 is the correct next free slot avoiding both the disk-visible IDs and the claimed-reserved ones.

(9) Smoke-test contract coverage. Pins all the high-value contracts:

  • All 11 ticket-named crawlers in registry (case 9, jq when available + grep fallback)
  • Verbatim skill.md vs SKILL.md naming-clash callout in SKILL.md (case 3, assert_grep_fixed)
  • AgDR-0043 mentions GEO + AEO + naming clash + skill.md (case 7)
  • All 6 buckets named in SKILL.md (case 2)
  • /seo-audit/generative-engine-audit cross-link (case 13)
  • /launch-check references the new skill in the deep-dive companions table (case 14)
  • /launch-check description names "generative-engine" (case 15)
  • Sweep size 8 → 9 AND obsolete "8-dimension sweep" wording is gone (case 16, includes a negative assert_not_grep — nicely defensive)
  • CLAUDE.md skill count = 52 + new row present (case 11)
  • multi-project.md row present (case 12)
  • AgDR-0043 body-H1, no YAML frontmatter (case 5, walks first line + asserts no ^---)

No critical contract un-pinned.

Issues Found

None blocking. Three nits below (purely advisory).

Handbook Findings

Two always-load handbooks loaded:

  • handbooks/architecture/clean-architecture-layers.md (advisory) — diff is doc + JSON only, no source-layer crossings possible. No findings.
  • handbooks/general/commit-message-quality.md (advisory) — all three commit messages have substantive bodies explaining WHY (the GEO/AEO market context, the sibling-vs-extend choice, the documentation-contract pinning rationale). No findings.

No language handbooks loaded (no .ts / .tsx / .py / .go / .rs in the diff).

Suggestions (non-blocking nits)

  1. Bucket-name drift in AgDR-0043 Consequences — line in the AgDR Consequences/Positive list reads "(Discovery / Capability-signaling / Content-format / Token-economics / Analytics / Governance)", but everywhere else in the diff (SKILL.md § "The 6 check buckets", the output findings table, the audit template, the smoke test, CLAUDE.md, docs/multi-project.md) the 6th bucket is UX, not Governance. The smoke test pins UX only — a future maintainer reading the AgDR could be misled. One-word fix: GovernanceUX in that AgDR sentence.

  2. CLAUDE.md skill-count vs visible-row drift inherited, not fixed — the PR explicitly acknowledges and inherits the pre-existing inconsistency (CLAUDE.md previously claimed 50 with 47 visible rows; bumped to 52 with 48 visible rows). On-disk .claude/skills/*/ has 50 dirs pre-PR (51 post-merge). Missing from the CLAUDE.md table: /debug, /onboard, /split-portfolio. The smoke test pins 52 so future drift gets caught at the header level, but the visible/header gap remains. Worth a follow-up ticket to either backfill the three missing rows (preferred — they're real skills adopters use) or correct the header. Not a blocker for this PR — the gap is pre-existing.

  3. Audit template prose references frontmatter that isn't theretemplates/audits/generative-engine-audit.md line 2 reads:

    Persisted by /generative-engine-audit via _lib-audit-history.sh. Frontmatter (above) is structured; the body is freeform per dimension.

    But the template starts with # Generative Engine Audit — {project} @ {short-sha} — no YAML frontmatter. The persistence happens via audit_run_persist JSON payload (not via in-file frontmatter), so the prose is misleading. Likely a copy-paste artifact from sibling audit templates. A one-line clarification ("Persisted via _lib-audit-history.sh JSON payload; the body below is freeform per dimension.") would close the loop.

Verdict

APPROVED

This is a substantial, well-scoped skill addition with the load-bearing items handled correctly:

  • The skill.md vs SKILL.md naming-clash is verbatim-callouted in both SKILL.md and AgDR-0043, smoke-test-pinned with assert_grep_fixed
  • AgDR-0043 engages all 4 decision axes honestly, including explicit acknowledgement of the v1 advisory-posture trade-off
  • The 12-crawler registry is valid JSON with a clean schema, all 11 ticket-named crawlers present + 1 documented addition
  • /launch-check integration is complete and consistent (header, dimension §6, scores{}, project-type filtering, table)
  • /seo-audit cross-link is bidirectional
  • AgDR slot 0043 correctly chosen
  • Smoke test pins the right contracts
  • Standard gates all clean (glossary, Closes #311, no secrets, no private project refs, generic external attribution)

The three nits above are non-blocking and can land in a follow-up.

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…audit

Add a new audit skill scoring how well a web project's documentation
is discoverable, parsable, and citable by LLM/agent crawlers
(ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini) and AI coding agents
(Claude Code, Cursor, Aider, Cline). Covers two related sub-scopes:

  - GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) — content for LLM citations
  - AEO (Agentic Engine Optimization) — docs for coding-agent consumption

The skill is a sibling to /seo-audit, not an extension. /seo-audit
keeps its Googlebot focus; this skill covers the LLM/agent surface.
/launch-check fans out to both at milestone boundaries.

Artifacts added:

  - .claude/skills/generative-engine-audit/SKILL.md — 17 checks
    across 6 buckets (Discovery / Capability-signaling /
    Content-format / Token-economics / Analytics / UX)
  - .claude/registries/ai-crawlers.json — v1 AI-crawler list, 12
    entries (GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot,
    Claude-Web, anthropic-ai, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot,
    CCBot, Bytespider, Applebot-Extended, cohere-ai)
  - templates/audits/generative-engine-audit.md — per-run body
    template, audit-family standard (AgDR-0019)
  - docs/agdr/AgDR-0043-generative-engine-audit-skill.md — design
    rationale: 4 decision axes (sibling vs extend, naming-clash
    handling, advisory-vs-strict, registry location). Body-H1
    convention, no YAML frontmatter.

Notable: the audit's `skill.md` capability-manifest check is the
upstream GEO/AEO convention — **distinct from Claude Code's
`SKILL.md`** slash-command spec. The naming clash is codified
verbatim in both the SKILL.md callout and the AgDR.

Industry-standard prior art on GEO + AEO surfaces (llms.txt,
AGENTS.md, /.well-known/ai-plugin.json, AI-crawler directives in
robots.txt, JSON-LD citation grounding) is the motivating context;
this skill is the framework's first audit covering that surface.

Refs #311

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Register the new skill across the framework's documentation surface
so it surfaces where adopters look:

  - CLAUDE.md: bump skill count 50 → 52 (51 + new), add the
    /generative-engine-audit row with the AgDR-0043 link and the
    skill.md naming-clash callout
  - docs/multi-project.md: add the skill-behaviour row
  - .claude/skills/launch-check/SKILL.md:
      * Bump sweep size 8 → 9 dimensions
      * Add the generative-engine row to the output table + the
        deep-dive companions table
      * New § 6 "Generative-engine (LLM/agent discoverability)"
        with quick-scan checks; deep dive lives in the companion
      * Extend `scores{}` example with `generative_engine`
      * Update the project-type filtering (web app → 9 dims,
        API/CLI/mobile → skip the new dim alongside SEO)
  - .claude/skills/seo-audit/SKILL.md: cross-link to the sibling
    near the top, naming the audience-split (Googlebot vs LLM
    crawlers + coding agents)

Behaviour-preserving for adopters who never invoke the new skill —
/launch-check on a web project now emits an additional row, but
auto-PASSes for APIs / CLIs / libraries.

Refs #311

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ntracts

Add .claude/skills/generative-engine-audit/tests/smoke.sh — 51
assertions across 16 cases pinning the documentation contracts
downstream re-implementations and adopter PRs need to hold:

  1. SKILL.md frontmatter sanity (name, argument-hint, effort,
     description names LLM/agent + GEO + AEO)
  2. All 6 check buckets named in SKILL.md
  3. Verbatim skill.md vs SKILL.md naming-clash callout present
     (test-pinned so future maintainers can't drop it silently)
  4. Cross-links to /seo-audit, /launch-check, AgDR-0043, registry
  5. AgDR-0043 starts with body-H1, no YAML frontmatter (matches
     the AgDR-0034 through AgDR-0042 convention recorded in user
     memory)
  6. AgDR has Context / Options Considered / Decision /
     Consequences + the "In the context of..." one-liner
  7. AgDR names GEO/AEO distinction + naming clash + skill.md
  8. AgDR references the registry file
  9. Registry valid JSON, all 11 named crawlers from the ticket
     (jq when present, grep fallback otherwise)
 10. Audit template exists at the canonical path with H1 +
     Findings header
 11. CLAUDE.md skill count is 52, new row present
 12. docs/multi-project.md skill-behaviour table has the new row
 13. /seo-audit cross-links to /generative-engine-audit
 14. /launch-check references /generative-engine-audit in the
     deep-dive companions table (so the fan-out claim is testable)
 15. /launch-check description names the new dimension
 16. /launch-check sweep size updated 8 → 9 (and the obsolete
     "8-dimension sweep" wording is gone — caught one stale line
     during initial run, fixed in the previous commit)

Same contract-pinning shape as the /handover harnessability-
scoring smoke test (#298): no live skill invocation, just file-
contract assertions. Walks up from the tests dir to locate the
ops-fork root via CLAUDE.md presence — same idiom as the
investigation / dfd / feature-diagram smoke tests.

Refs #311

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Re-Review: PR #315 (after rebase)

Commit: 6c34e8579b42156a26f498bc9b92b008b6d24e15

Summary

Re-review focused on rebase mechanics only — prior approval at 054a34f stands for the content. Verified the rebase preserved the original 3 commits byte-identically (feat / docs / test) onto current dev (9170ed2 = #313 merge commit), the two documented conflict resolutions are correct, the smoke test still passes 51/51, and all AgDR-0043 references are intact.

Rebase mechanics — verified

  1. Commit order + parents: 3 commits sit on top of 9170ed2, in order feat(af0705f) → docs(145f9d0) → test(6c34e85). Matches the documented rebase plan.

  2. Per-commit content byte-identical to originals — confirmed via git show --stat:

    • feat rebased (af0705f) vs original (6929dfe): same 4 files, 483 insertions, 0 deletions ✓
    • docs rebased (145f9d0) vs original (e59bae8): same 4 files, 52 insertions, 30 deletions ✓
    • test rebased (6c34e85) vs original (054a34f): same 1 file, 301 insertions ✓
  3. Conflict resolution #1CLAUDE.md skill count:

    • Dev base (9170ed2): ### Available skills (51)
    • PR HEAD: ### Available skills (52)
    • Correct: 51 (dev baseline, including /codify-rule from #305) + 1 new skill (/generative-engine-audit) = 52. Note the pre-existing visible-row drift is independent — tracked by #322.
  4. Conflict resolution #2docs/multi-project.md skill-behaviour table:

    • Dev base: /pdf (line 700) → /codify-rule (line 701) — no /generative-engine-audit row
    • PR HEAD: /pdf (700) → /codify-rule (701) → /generative-engine-audit (702) ✓
    • Both rows preserved in order; the new row is appended after /codify-rule. No overwrite, no row reordering.
  5. Smoke test at new HEAD: bash .claude/skills/generative-engine-audit/tests/smoke.sh51/51 PASS (16 cases) at SHA 6c34e85

  6. CI: All 4 required checks SUCCESS (lychee, markdownlint-cli2, Verify Ticket ID ×2). mergeStateStatus: CLEAN, mergeable: MERGEABLE.

  7. AgDR-0043 reference integrity: grep across PR HEAD content for AgDR numbers and original-commit SHAs. All AgDR-0043 references resolve to docs/agdr/AgDR-0043-generative-engine-audit-skill.md (correct path, body-H1 H1 confirmed). The two AgDR-0042 references in .claude/skills/handover/SKILL.md are from #298 work (unrelated, on dev base). No leftover references to 6929dfe, e59bae8, or 054a34f anywhere in PR HEAD.

Checklist Results

  • ✅ Rebase mechanics: Pass
  • ✅ Conflict resolutions: Pass (both correct)
  • ✅ Per-commit content vs originals: Pass (byte-identical)
  • ✅ Smoke test at new HEAD: Pass (51/51)
  • ✅ CI checks: Pass (4/4 SUCCESS)
  • ✅ AgDR-0043 references intact: Pass
  • ✅ Mergeable state: Pass (CLEAN)
  • N/A Substantive content review: prior approval at 054a34f stands

Issues Found

None.

Verdict

APPROVED — rebase preserved the originally-approved content; both conflict resolutions are correct; smoke + CI green at new HEAD.


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…audit (#315)

* feat(#311): /generative-engine-audit — LLM/agent SEO sibling to /seo-audit

Add a new audit skill scoring how well a web project's documentation
is discoverable, parsable, and citable by LLM/agent crawlers
(ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini) and AI coding agents
(Claude Code, Cursor, Aider, Cline). Covers two related sub-scopes:

  - GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) — content for LLM citations
  - AEO (Agentic Engine Optimization) — docs for coding-agent consumption

The skill is a sibling to /seo-audit, not an extension. /seo-audit
keeps its Googlebot focus; this skill covers the LLM/agent surface.
/launch-check fans out to both at milestone boundaries.

Artifacts added:

  - .claude/skills/generative-engine-audit/SKILL.md — 17 checks
    across 6 buckets (Discovery / Capability-signaling /
    Content-format / Token-economics / Analytics / UX)
  - .claude/registries/ai-crawlers.json — v1 AI-crawler list, 12
    entries (GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot,
    Claude-Web, anthropic-ai, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot,
    CCBot, Bytespider, Applebot-Extended, cohere-ai)
  - templates/audits/generative-engine-audit.md — per-run body
    template, audit-family standard (AgDR-0019)
  - docs/agdr/AgDR-0043-generative-engine-audit-skill.md — design
    rationale: 4 decision axes (sibling vs extend, naming-clash
    handling, advisory-vs-strict, registry location). Body-H1
    convention, no YAML frontmatter.

Notable: the audit's `skill.md` capability-manifest check is the
upstream GEO/AEO convention — **distinct from Claude Code's
`SKILL.md`** slash-command spec. The naming clash is codified
verbatim in both the SKILL.md callout and the AgDR.

Industry-standard prior art on GEO + AEO surfaces (llms.txt,
AGENTS.md, /.well-known/ai-plugin.json, AI-crawler directives in
robots.txt, JSON-LD citation grounding) is the motivating context;
this skill is the framework's first audit covering that surface.

Refs #311

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(#311): wire /generative-engine-audit into the audit family

Register the new skill across the framework's documentation surface
so it surfaces where adopters look:

  - CLAUDE.md: bump skill count 50 → 52 (51 + new), add the
    /generative-engine-audit row with the AgDR-0043 link and the
    skill.md naming-clash callout
  - docs/multi-project.md: add the skill-behaviour row
  - .claude/skills/launch-check/SKILL.md:
      * Bump sweep size 8 → 9 dimensions
      * Add the generative-engine row to the output table + the
        deep-dive companions table
      * New § 6 "Generative-engine (LLM/agent discoverability)"
        with quick-scan checks; deep dive lives in the companion
      * Extend `scores{}` example with `generative_engine`
      * Update the project-type filtering (web app → 9 dims,
        API/CLI/mobile → skip the new dim alongside SEO)
  - .claude/skills/seo-audit/SKILL.md: cross-link to the sibling
    near the top, naming the audience-split (Googlebot vs LLM
    crawlers + coding agents)

Behaviour-preserving for adopters who never invoke the new skill —
/launch-check on a web project now emits an additional row, but
auto-PASSes for APIs / CLIs / libraries.

Refs #311

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(#311): smoke test pins /generative-engine-audit documentation contracts

Add .claude/skills/generative-engine-audit/tests/smoke.sh — 51
assertions across 16 cases pinning the documentation contracts
downstream re-implementations and adopter PRs need to hold:

  1. SKILL.md frontmatter sanity (name, argument-hint, effort,
     description names LLM/agent + GEO + AEO)
  2. All 6 check buckets named in SKILL.md
  3. Verbatim skill.md vs SKILL.md naming-clash callout present
     (test-pinned so future maintainers can't drop it silently)
  4. Cross-links to /seo-audit, /launch-check, AgDR-0043, registry
  5. AgDR-0043 starts with body-H1, no YAML frontmatter (matches
     the AgDR-0034 through AgDR-0042 convention recorded in user
     memory)
  6. AgDR has Context / Options Considered / Decision /
     Consequences + the "In the context of..." one-liner
  7. AgDR names GEO/AEO distinction + naming clash + skill.md
  8. AgDR references the registry file
  9. Registry valid JSON, all 11 named crawlers from the ticket
     (jq when present, grep fallback otherwise)
 10. Audit template exists at the canonical path with H1 +
     Findings header
 11. CLAUDE.md skill count is 52, new row present
 12. docs/multi-project.md skill-behaviour table has the new row
 13. /seo-audit cross-links to /generative-engine-audit
 14. /launch-check references /generative-engine-audit in the
     deep-dive companions table (so the fan-out claim is testable)
 15. /launch-check description names the new dimension
 16. /launch-check sweep size updated 8 → 9 (and the obsolete
     "8-dimension sweep" wording is gone — caught one stale line
     during initial run, fixed in the previous commit)

Same contract-pinning shape as the /handover harnessability-
scoring smoke test (#298): no live skill invocation, just file-
contract assertions. Walks up from the tests dir to locate the
ops-fork root via CLAUDE.md presence — same idiom as the
investigation / dfd / feature-diagram smoke tests.

Refs #311

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: me2resh <ahmed.abdelaliem@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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