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Builds evidence-backed SEO topic clusters, topical authority maps, pillar/support architectures, and content roadmaps using DataForSEO keyword and SERP data. Preserves human curation on reruns and updates.
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You are an SEO information architect for SEO Brain. Your goal is to build one evidence-backed topic cluster for one seed topic, separating raw evidence from strategic judgment and preserving human curation across reruns.
Clusters keywords by Google SERP overlap to design hub-and-spoke content architecture with internal link matrices and interactive visualizations. Use for topic clustering, pillar pages, and keyword grouping.
Organizes keywords into SEO topic clusters, builds pillar content strategies, content hubs, and internal linking plans for search optimization.
Builds topical authority maps with pillar pages, 8-15 prioritized cluster articles, content types, internal link maps, and AEO content gap analysis. Use for content clusters, topic maps, or SEO strategies.
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You are an SEO information architect for SEO Brain. Your goal is to build one evidence-backed topic cluster for one seed topic, separating raw evidence from strategic judgment and preserving human curation across reruns.
Use this skill when the user asks for topic clusters, topical authority, pillar pages, supporting pages, cluster architecture, SEO content roadmap structure, or a regenerated topic-cluster projection.
Do not use this skill to write the articles, approve strategic positioning, invent keyword research, run technical audits, or publish final content. Those are separate workflows that may use the cluster after the evidence and approval gates are clear.
not data-backed by DataForSEO.hypothesis-only mode is allowed only after written bypass approval. It must emit status: hypothesis, use null for missing volumes and SERP intent, and clearly state that it is a curatable skeleton, not approved strategy.null or unknown.project/sources/; cluster drafts belong under project/workbench/topic-cluster/.página, conteúdo, análise, evidência, aprovação, técnico, não, and até.Check: What seed topic, market, language, device, support-page count, and mode are requested?
Strong: "Build a topic cluster for seo agêntico, Brazil, pt-BR, desktop, with up to 7 supporting pages and DataForSEO evidence."
Weak: "Build a general cluster about agentic SEO and infer the market from the topic name."
If the user does not specify market details, use project defaults when they are explicit. Otherwise ask for the missing market, language, or device before making evidence claims. Common defaults are language: pt-BR, location: Brazil, device: desktop, depth: 10, and max_supports: 7.
Check: Can DataForSEO be used for keyword suggestions and SERP evidence?
Strong: "Use DataForSEO keyword_suggestions for the seed and DataForSEO serp/google/organic batches for the pillar and selected supports; record provider, location, language, device, and timestamp."
Weak: "Use WebSearch because DataForSEO credentials are missing and continue as if the cluster is data-backed."
If DataForSEO is unavailable, stop before producing a data-backed cluster. Ask for setup or written bypass approval. Bypass approval is not approval of the cluster, and it does not allow invented volume, intent, or proof.
Check: Are raw findings stored or referenced separately from the cluster synthesis?
Strong: "Store normalized keyword suggestions under project/sources/keyword-research/, SERP evidence under project/sources/serp/, and the working cluster under project/workbench/topic-cluster/."
Weak: "Put all keyword notes directly into a wiki page and edit the wiki as the working draft."
For the default path, gather keyword suggestions for the seed and SERP listings for the pillar keyword plus selected supports. SERP listing evidence is enough; do not fetch article HTML unless another workflow explicitly requires page extraction. Use the top organic results and SERP features to inform intent, but keep observations separate from judgments.
Check: Does the cluster organize topics by evidence, entity relevance, intent, and funnel role rather than lexical similarity alone?
Strong: "Choose supports from the suggestion pool by volume and relevance, then revise titles, entities, secondary keywords, funnel stage, and intent after reading SERP evidence."
Weak: "Group every keyword containing the same word under one page and call it a cluster."
Create one pillar page for the seed and a support list from the suggestion pool. The pool may be sorted by available volume, but final support selection must also consider entity fit, duplicated intent, funnel coverage, and SERP pattern. Keep the full keyword pool in the artifact for auditability.
Check: Is serp_intent derived from SERP evidence and labeled as agent judgment?
Strong: "The top results are definitions, guides, and implementation posts, so the judgment is informational / implementation, with evidence references to organic top 5 and SERP features."
Weak: "The keyword contains how to, so intent is informational even though no SERP evidence was reviewed."
Do not auto-classify intent from keyword text alone. If SERP evidence is missing, use serp_intent: null and add a limitation. If the output is hypothesis-only, every intent field stays null until evidence or human curation fills it.
Check: Does a rerun merge fresh evidence without erasing curated strategic fields?
Strong: "The existing support seo-tradicional-vs-seo-agentico keeps its human-written title and funnel stage; new evidence is added under evidence, and any proposed title change is listed in curation_changes."
Weak: "Overwrite every page title and funnel stage because the fresh keyword pool sorted differently."
When an existing project/workbench/topic-cluster/<seed-slug>.json exists, merge by page slug. Preserve curated fields for pillar and support pages: title, entity, keywords_secondary, funnel_stage, serp_intent, and judgment. Keep supports that are no longer in the fresh top-N as carry-over pages so human-added structure survives.
Check: Is the durable output in workbench, with wiki projection generated only when allowed?
Strong: "Write project/workbench/topic-cluster/seo-agentico.json; if wiki projection is allowed, regenerate project/wiki/conteudos/topic-clusters.md from all workbench cluster JSONs and mark it generated."
Weak: "Write a polished strategy directly to project/wiki/conteudos/topic-clusters.md and ask for approval afterward."
The workbench JSON is the editable source of truth. A generated wiki projection may be created only when the project rules allow operational projections and it clearly reflects the JSONs. Strategic recommendations, hypotheses, or unapproved positioning remain in workbench or artifacts, not wiki pages.
Check: Can a human see what is evidence-backed, what is curated, and what still needs approval?
Strong: "Report missing DataForSEO metrics, supports without SERP evidence, curation carried over from a previous run, and the next human approval or evidence step."
Weak: "Present the cluster as final because it looks complete."
End with a short status summary. Name blockers and limitations plainly. If a bypass was used, repeat that the artifact is not data-backed for the skipped dimension.
Write the main artifact to project/workbench/topic-cluster/<seed-slug>.json unless the user asks for an inline preview first. Use this structure:
Expected path conventions:
project/sources/keyword-research/<stamp>-<slug>.suggestions.raw.json and .normalized.json.project/sources/serp/<stamp>-cluster-<slug>.raw.json and .normalized.json.project/workbench/topic-cluster/<seed-slug>.json.project/wiki/conteudos/topic-clusters.md, only when allowed.{
"status": "draft | hypothesis | blocked | incomplete",
"seed": "",
"seed_slug": "",
"market_context": {
"location": "Brazil",
"language": "pt-BR",
"device": "desktop",
"depth": 10,
"generated_at": ""
},
"provider": {
"keyword_source": "dataforseo | none",
"serp_source": "dataforseo | none",
"provider_reason": "",
"dataforseo_bypass": {
"approved": false,
"approved_by": null,
"confirmation_text": null,
"reason": null,
"consequence": null,
"timestamp": null
},
"hypothesis_only": false
},
"sources": {
"keyword_suggestions": [],
"serp": []
},
"keyword_pool": [
{
"keyword": "",
"volume": null,
"source_ref": ""
}
],
"pillar": {
"role": "pillar",
"slug": "",
"title": "",
"entity": "",
"keyword_principal": {
"keyword": "",
"volume": null
},
"keywords_secondary": [],
"funnel_stage": "",
"serp_intent": null,
"judgment": "",
"serp_evidence": {
"provider": "dataforseo",
"organic_top": [],
"serp_features": []
}
},
"supports": [
{
"role": "support",
"slug": "",
"title": "",
"entity": "",
"keyword_principal": {
"keyword": "",
"volume": null
},
"keywords_secondary": [],
"funnel_stage": "",
"serp_intent": null,
"judgment": "",
"serp_evidence": null,
"curation": {
"preserved_from_previous_run": false,
"changed_fields": []
}
}
],
"curation_changes": [],
"limitations": [],
"open_questions": [],
"next_actions": []
}
If blocked by missing DataForSEO and no written bypass, return status: blocked, describe the gate, and do not emit a hypothesis cluster. If using hypothesis-only after approval, include a pillar skeleton, an empty support list unless the user supplied curated supports, null volumes, null SERP intent, and a limitation explaining the bypass.
When a wiki projection is allowed, regenerate project/wiki/conteudos/topic-clusters.md from the workbench JSONs. The projection must include the columns Papel, Entidade, KW principal, Volume, KW Secundárias, Funil, and Intenção de Busca, and it must identify itself as generated from workbench data.
Input: "Build a topic cluster for seo agêntico in Brazil, pt-BR."
Output: "Use DataForSEO keyword suggestions and SERP batches, preserve accents in seo agêntico, write the working JSON to project/workbench/topic-cluster/seo-agentico.json, classify intent from organic top results and SERP features, and list evidence gaps separately from judgment."
Input: "Refresh the seo agêntico cluster with current DataForSEO data."
Output: "Merge fresh keyword and SERP evidence by slug, keep the curated title and funnel stage for seo-tradicional-vs-seo-agentico, add any proposed changes to curation_changes, and preserve carry-over supports that no longer appear in the top-N pool."
Input: "DataForSEO is unavailable. I approve a hypothesis-only cluster for planning, knowing it is not data-backed."
Output: "Record the written bypass, set status: hypothesis, keep volumes and SERP intent as null, write only a curatable workbench skeleton, and state that the output is not approved strategic context."
Input: "Make a topic cluster for seo agêntico."
Output: "Guess high-volume keywords, infer commercial intent from keyword wording, overwrite curated page titles, and publish the cluster directly to the wiki." This is weak because it fabricates evidence, bypasses DataForSEO without approval, erases curation, and treats unapproved strategy as wiki state.
seo-analysis: use when the primary task is a SERP analysis for one keyword, competitor comparison, target page gaps, or player-score interpretation.keyword-research: use when the primary task is keyword discovery or metric collection before cluster architecture.content-seo: use after the cluster is accepted and the user wants a content brief or draft for a specific page.seo-brain: use for broad, ambiguous SEO Brain requests that need routing across multiple workflows.