geo-citability
Helps your agent score and improve how your site is cited. This can boost your online visibility.
What it does
This tool helps make your text easier for artificial intelligence (AI) to find and use. It analyzes your text to see if AI can easily extract parts of it to answer questions.
When to use it
- ✓When you want your content to be more easily found and cited by AIs.
- ✓When writing articles, blog posts, or any text you want AIs to use.
- ✓To improve your content's visibility in AI-generated responses.
Example of what to ask your AI
“Make this text more 'citable' for AIs.”
Want more? Open the sections below.
How to use
The easiest way: copy the message below and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI. It reads the skill and follows the instructions.
Skill link
Ready-to-paste message
How it works
The tool checks if your text has short paragraphs that start with the main answer and contain facts. It also looks at the text's structure, like headings and lists, to make it easier for AI to read.
Installation
Easiest way: copy the skill link and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor asking it to follow the instructions.
In the terminal (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor), in your project folder:
npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill geo-citabilityOr download just the file:
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/main/plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/geo-citability/SKILL.md -o SKILL.mdTechnical content (original SKILL.md)
Original text by the author, straight from GitHub.
AI Citability Scoring Skill
Core Insight
AI language models cite passages that meet specific structural criteria. Research from Princeton, Georgia Tech, and IIT Delhi (2024) found that GEO-optimized content achieves 30-115% higher visibility in AI-generated responses. The key finding: AI systems preferentially extract and cite passages that are 134-167 words long, self-contained (understandable without surrounding context), fact-rich (containing specific statistics, dates, or named entities), and directly answer a question in the first 1-2 sentences.
This is fundamentally different from traditional SEO copywriting, which optimizes for keyword density and user engagement metrics. GEO citability optimizes for extractability -- the ease with which an AI system can pull a passage from your content and present it as a direct answer.
Citability Scoring Rubric (0-100)
Category 1: Answer Block Quality (30% of total score)
This measures whether content contains clear, quotable answer passages that AI systems can extract verbatim.
Scoring Criteria:
| Score | Criteria |
|---|---|
| 90-100 | Every major section opens with a 1-2 sentence direct answer. Uses "X is..." or "X refers to..." patterns. First 40-60 words of each section can stand alone as a complete answer. |
| 70-89 | Most sections have clear answer openings. Some definition patterns present. Answers are identifiable but may need minor context. |
| 50-69 | Some sections have answer-like openings but many bury the answer in the middle or end of paragraphs. Few explicit definition patterns. |
| 30-49 | Answers are generally buried in long paragraphs. No consistent definition patterns. Content is narrative-driven rather than answer-driven. |
| 0-29 | No identifiable answer blocks. Content is entirely narrative, conversational, or fragmented. AI would struggle to extract any quotable passage. |
What to look for:
- Definition patterns: "X is [definition]." / "X refers to [explanation]." / "X means [meaning]."
- Answer-first structure: The answer appears in the first sentence, followed by supporting detail.
- Quantified answers: "The average cost of X is $Y" rather than "Many factors affect the cost of X."
- Comparison answers: "X differs from Y in three ways: [list]" rather than "X and Y are often confused."
High-citability example:
Content delivery networks (CDNs) are distributed server systems that cache and serve
web content from locations geographically close to end users. A CDN reduces latency
by 50-70% on average by serving assets from edge servers rather than a single origin
server. The three largest CDN providers as of 2025 are Cloudflare (serving approximately
20% of all websites), Amazon CloudFront, and Akamai Technologies.
Word count: 58. Self-contained: Yes. Facts: 3 specific data points. Definition pattern: Yes.
Low-citability example:
If you've ever wondered why some websites load faster than others, the answer might
surprise you. There's this amazing technology that has been around for a while now.
It's changed the way we think about web performance. Let me explain how it works and
why you should care about it for your business.
Word count: 52. Self-contained: No (no topic identified). Facts: 0. Definition pattern: No.
Category 2: Passage Self-Containment (25% of total score)
This measures whether individual passages can be extracted and understood without needing the surrounding content.
Scoring Criteria:
| Score | Criteria |
|---|---|
| 90-100 | 80%+ of content blocks are fully self-contained. Each passage names its subject explicitly. No reliance on pronouns referencing earlier content. Contains specific facts within the passage. |
| 70-89 | 60-79% of content blocks are self-contained. Most passages name their subject. Occasional pronoun references that require context. |
| 50-69 | 40-59% of content blocks are self-contained. Mixed use of explicit subjects and pronouns. Some passages require reading prior sections. |
| 30-49 | 20-39% of content blocks are self-contained. Heavy reliance on pronouns and contextual references. Most passages need surrounding text. |
| 0-29 | Under 20% self-contained. Content reads as a continuous narrative where extracting any paragraph loses meaning. |
Self-containment checklist for each passage:
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FAQ
What is 'citability' for AI?
It's how easily an AI system can extract a piece of your text and present it as a direct answer, much like a citation.
Why does AI prefer certain types of text?
AI is trained to find information efficiently. Texts with clear answers at the beginning, facts, and organized structure are easier for it to process and cite.
Is this the same as SEO?
No. SEO focuses on keywords for search engines like Google. Citability focuses on how easy it is for an AI to extract and use your text directly.
Details
Original description by the author
AI citability scoring and optimization.
Popularity
- GitHub stars
- 48k
- Ranking position
- #3101
- License
- MIT
- Updated
- 10/15/2026
Comments
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