Rankcontrol

Operate the user's RankControl workspace (rctrl.com) from the command line - AI search visibility and citations (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews), SEO content planning, article generation and publishing to their CMS, backlinks and outreach, social repurposing, brand memory, and reports. Use this whenever the user asks about AI visibility, AI citations, GEO/AEO, being cited by ChatGPT, their content calendar, publishing articles, AI traffic attribution, or anything in their RankControl account, even if they don't name RankControl explicitly.

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)

npx skills add rankcontrol/rankcontrol --skill rankcontrol

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rankcontrol/rankcontrol.git /tmp/rankcontrol
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/rankcontrol/. ~/.claude/skills/rankcontrol

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

# RankControl CLI

RankControl (https://rctrl.com) wins Google rankings and AI citations for a
website: it plans content, writes articles, publishes them as native posts on
the customer's own CMS, and tracks citations and traffic across AI
search engines. The `rankcontrol` CLI is the whole workspace in the terminal.
Every command prints JSON.

Full reference: https://rctrl.com/docs (also https://rctrl.com/docs/llms.txt)

## Install and authenticate

```bash
# Install (or use `npx rankcontrol ...` without installing)
npm install -g rankcontrol

# A human at the keyboard: browser device authorization
rankcontrol login

# Headless / CI / agent sandboxes: use an API key from
# Dashboard -> Settings -> API Keys
export RANKCONTROL_API_KEY=rctrl_pk_...
```

Verify before doing anything else:

```bash
rankcontrol score
```

If it errors, stop and sort out auth first. An `HTTP 401` means no valid key;
an `HTTP 403` means the key is missing a scope for that command (scopes are
set per key in the dashboard; read-only keys are common). Tell the user which
scope is missing rather than retrying.

## Ground rules

1. **Do what the user asked.** Commands marked **dry run** below do nothing
   until `--confirm` is added. When the user asked for the action, run it
   with `--confirm`. Run the dry run first only when the request is unclear
   or the user wants to see it. Never add `--confirm` for an action the user
   did not ask for.

Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name: rankcontrol
Repository: rankcontrol/rankcontrol
License: MIT
Repo updated: 29 October 2026

FAQ

What does the Rankcontrol skill do?

How do I install the Rankcontrol skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add rankcontrol/rankcontrol --skill rankcontrol. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Rankcontrol popular?

It lives in rankcontrol/rankcontrol, which has 5 GitHub stars and 0 forks.

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