ai-search-readinesslisted
Install: claude install-skill markbaindesign/bain-studio
# AI Search Readiness Audit
Run a technical audit of how ready a site is to be crawled, understood, and cited by AI
crawlers and answer engines — as opposed to traditional search engine crawlers, which
`/seo-audit` already covers.
## When to use this vs. /seo-audit
- `/seo-audit` — titles, meta descriptions, canonicals, sitemaps, PageSpeed/Core Web Vitals.
- `/ai-search-readiness` (this skill) — AI-bot-specific robots.txt rules, llms.txt,
structured data as an AI-citation signal, and JS-rendering dependency (many AI crawlers
do not execute JavaScript).
They're complementary — run both for a full picture. If the user asks for "AI readiness,"
"AI SEO," "AI search," or similar, use this skill. If they cross-reference Google Analytics,
also check for an "AI Assistant" / AI-referral channel in GA4 (via `/ga-report`) as a
real-world signal that AI tools are already sending traffic.
## Steps
### 1. Identify URL and pages
Use the URL from the invocation argument. Default to the homepage; add up to 5
project-specific pages if the user names them or if the project's CLAUDE.md identifies
key content pages (evergreen educational/guide content is the highest-value target —
that's what AI answer engines cite most).
### 2. Determine output path
Save alongside other audits for this engagement — typically
`context/ai-search/ai-search-readiness-{YYYY-MM-DD}.md` in the current project directory,
or the equivalent working folder if this is prospecting/portfolio research rather than