scripts/research.py:
- New --differentiators CLI flag accepts a comma-separated list of brand
USPs (e.g. "women-owned, 24/7 service, no hidden fees"). Flows through
to research output as research.differentiators for the writing agent
to enforce verbatim in body content + AI Summary Nugget.
- New extract_missing_spokes() walks the top 3 ranking competitors'
internal-link anchors, filters out generic navigation (Home, Contact,
Privacy, FAQ, Login, social media, etc.) and broken-markdown image-
link leakage ([](href) nesting), and outputs a ranked
missing_spokes list. The list is the client's build-order priority
for filling the topical-silo gap.
- Compact + brief outputs both surface differentiators and missing_spokes.
scripts/lib/massive.py:
- _parse_markdown now returns a links list ([{text, url}]) from standard
[text](url) syntax. Skips image links, hash anchors, mailto/tel/javascript.
scripts/lib/dataforseo.py:
- New _extract_links static method walks page_content.main_topic and
secondary_topic, pulling anchor_text + url from primary_content[].urls.
- content_parse output now includes links field matching MassiveClient.
SKILL.md (v1.9.0 -> v1.9.1):
- Execution Protocol step 2 brief template gains Brand Differentiators /
USPs field. New paragraph instructs the agent to STOP and ASK the user
for differentiators if not provided up front.
- Section 12 Hub & Spoke Internal Linking gets a new Missing Spoke
Detection subsection requiring every generated page to append a
"## Recommended Spoke Pages" block built from missing_spokes data.
- Section 14 checklist expands 48 -> 51 points:
#49 Decision Fit (heading structure maps to buyer stage)
#50 Brand Identity (differentiators verbatim in chunks + nugget)
#51 Topical Silo (Recommended Spoke Pages block appended)
Passing threshold raised to 42/51.
references/quality-checklist.md: new v1.9.1 section detailing the three
new checks. Top-section reference updated to 51-point.
README.md, CHANGELOG.md, CLAUDE.md: version bumped, release-notes block
added, capability list updated. Historical version blocks restored to
their version-of-the-time checklist sizes (28, 34, 38, 41, 45, 48)
after over-greedy replace_all in prior commits.
Tests:
- 16 new tests in tests/test_research_v191.py covering --differentiators
parsing, domain normalization, generic-anchor filtering (including
nested-image-link leakage regression test), missing-spokes extraction
(same-domain filter, top-N respect, empty-input safety), markdown
link parsing in MassiveClient, and topic-tree link extraction in
DataForSEOClient.
- All 6 test files green.
Live smoke-tested against airport parking JFK with both flags:
- differentiators populated in compact output
- missing_spokes returned 12 semantic anchors after filtering
(SpotHero for Business, Reserve your spot, Parking details by lot,
EV charging stations, Learn about the JFK AirTrain, etc.)
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SKILL.md:
- New Section 6 subsection "DOM Vectoring & Shard Extraction
Compliance" -- Google's AI Overviews are now built by Gemini 3.5
Flash via a RAG pipeline that extracts shards from the raw HTML
DOM. JSON-LD in <head> is no longer sufficient on its own; critical
data points must live in front-facing <table> markup or inline
RDFa spans visible to a clean-session crawler.
- Section 11A Tributary Trust Protocol gains two new Tier 1 assets:
* Trust Pilot -- shifts brand description vectoring in Gemini /
ChatGPT inside 48 hours of publication
* Off-Page Schema Injection -- Organization/Person JSON-LD on
Cloud Pages and PRs with GBP CID backlinks blocks NavBoost
rank-shuffling during A/B exposure tests
- Network spread requirement updated from 4/5 to 5/7 Tier 1 assets.
- Frontmatter description now mentions Gemini 3.5 Flash RAG.
Section 14 checklist (45 -> 48 points, threshold 36/45 -> 39/48):
#46 Trust Pilot entity profiling with target bigrams
#47 Off-page cross-cutting Organization/Person schema to GBP
#48 Critical data points visible in raw HTML DOM (not just JSON-LD)
README.md, CHANGELOG.md, CLAUDE.md, references/quality-checklist.md
updated to match.
All existing tests pass (test_dataforseo, test_env, test_serp_analyze,
test_research_v171). No code changes -- v1.8.0 is a framework/protocol
release that extends existing structural rules.
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Research pipeline (scripts/research.py):
- extract_meta_entities() mines bolded query-matched phrases from the
`highlighted` field of competitor SERP results, with inline
<b>/<strong>/** fallback parsing. These are the entities Google's
snippet generator already validated as relevant.
- extract_target_ngrams() tokenizes top 3 competitors' headings + titles,
filters via inlined English stopwords, returns top 5 bigrams/trigrams.
- detect_secondary_intent() maps the funnel-next intent (Orcas 1 dual
intent) with overrides for transactional title signals and brand-
domain dominance.
- All four signals (primary_intent, secondary_intent, meta_entities,
target_ngrams) now surface at top level of research output for direct
brief consumption. Compact + brief output formats updated.
- DataForSEOClient._extract_serp now passes through the `highlighted`
field per organic result (was being dropped silently).
Framework (SKILL.md):
- 41-point checklist -> 45-point checklist with Meta Entity Isolation,
N-Gram AI Alignment, Dual-Intent, and Status Code Governance checks.
Passing threshold raised to 36/45.
- New "Technical Codebase Execution Rules" section: when run inside a
project repo, detect framework (Next.js, Astro, Hugo, Jekyll, etc.),
inject semantic HTML into source files, emit Apache/.htaccess +
Nginx + next.config.js + Vercel snippets for 301/410 redirects.
- HARD RULES rewritten as positive naming guidance.
Docs:
- README.md "What It Actually Does" block expanded 13 -> 14 steps
reflecting dual-intent mapping, n-gram seeding, 301/410 governance.
- references/quality-checklist.md adds the 4 new pass/fail checks with
field references back to research.py output.
- CLAUDE.md framework features list updated.
Tests:
- New tests/test_research_v171.py with 13 tests covering meta-entity
extraction (highlighted + inline-tag + dedup), n-gram extraction
(stopword filter, top-N limit, empty input), tokenizer, and
secondary-intent funnel + overrides.
- Live smoke-tested against airport parking JFK: meta_entities returns
8 real bolded SERP phrases; target_ngrams returns "jfk airport",
"airport parking", "uncovered valet" etc. as expected.
All existing test files still pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
GEO framework that writes pages ranking on Google AND getting cited by
LLMs. 500-token chunk architecture, Reddit Test quality gates,
verification tags, Not For You blocks, information gain enforcement.
Data layer: DataForSEO, GSC, Ahrefs MCP, SEMRush MCP.
21 files, all tests passing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
