How do I install the Searchcans Content Format Brief skill?

Run npx skillmds@latest add searchcans/searchcans-content-format-brief in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

Is Searchcans Content Format Brief safe to use?

This skill has not completed SkillMD's automated safety review yet. SkillMD never runs a skill's scripts for you; review the SKILL.md before installing.

Which AI agents work with Searchcans Content Format Brief?

This skill is tagged as working with Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex. SKILL.md is an open format, so most agents that read a skills directory can load it too.

Is Searchcans Content Format Brief free to use?

Yes. Installing skills from SkillMD is free, and the skill stays under its author's original license.

Who published Searchcans Content Format Brief?

SearchCans (@searchcans) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Searchcans Content Format Brief by searchcans

Name: Searchcans Content Format Brief
Author: SearchCans

Searchcans Content Format Brief

Map localized Google web, image, video, and short-video result formats into a bounded content-format brief. Use for SEO/GEO content planning, editorial format discovery, visual-search research, and deciding which formats need further page-level validation.

SearchCans 5491cf6 5 files · 18.8 KB Updated Sep 17, 2026

File contents

SearchCans Content Format Brief

Map which types of pages, images, videos, and short videos are currently returned for one localized query. The result is a format inventory for planning—not a traffic forecast, ranking guarantee, engagement report, or a license to reuse content.

Collect a localized format inventory

Confirm the topic, target country/language, intended audience, and the planning decision. The default run requests all four surfaces: Google web, Images, Videos, and Short Videos.

python scripts/content_format_brief.py "AI research agent" \
  --country us --language en --max-results 10 \
  --out content-format-brief.json

To answer a narrower question, repeat --surface with web, images, videos, or short-videos. This reduces cost and scope explicitly.

Account-aware scope and interpretation

The default --account-mode auto estimates one SERP request per selected format, performs a sanitized Account API pre-flight, caps the selected surfaces only if needed, and respects available Parallel Lanes. warn, enforce, and off let the operator choose a different policy.

Use the report template to deliver:

Query, market, retrieved formats, and limits.
Observed format/page-type patterns for each surface.
Search questions and related searches as leads.
A content-format hypothesis and the source/page validation still needed.

Do not call something “popular,” “high-engagement,” “best-performing,” or “ranked” from this output. Google result appearance is an observed snapshot only. Image and video URLs are references; their appearance gives no reuse, ownership, or licensing right.

Official website

SearchCans

Resources

scripts/content_format_brief.py generates the four-surface JSON inventory.
references/content-format-report.md provides the planning-brief structure and boundaries.

---name: searchcans-content-format-briefdescription: Map localized Google web, image, video, and short-video result formats into a bounded content-format brief. Use for SEO/GEO content planning, editorial format discovery, visual-search research, and deciding which formats need further page-level validation.---# SearchCans Content Format BriefMap which types of pages, images, videos, and short videos are currently returned for one localized query. The result is a format inventory for planning—not a traffic forecast, ranking guarantee, engagement report, or a license to reuse content.## Collect a localized format inventoryConfirm the topic, target country/language, intended audience, and the planning decision. The default run requests all four surfaces: Google web, Images, Videos, and Short Videos.```bashpython scripts/content_format_brief.py "AI research agent" \ --country us --language en --max-results 10 \ --out content-format-brief.json```To answer a narrower question, repeat `--surface` with `web`, `images`, `videos`, or `short-videos`. This reduces cost and scope explicitly.## Account-aware scope and interpretationThe default `--account-mode auto` estimates one SERP request per selected format, performs a sanitized Account API pre-flight, caps the selected surfaces only if needed, and respects available Parallel Lanes. `warn`, `enforce`, and `off` let the operator choose a different policy.Use [the report template](references/content-format-report.md) to deliver:1. Query, market, retrieved formats, and limits.2. Observed format/page-type patterns for each surface.3. Search questions and related searches as leads.4. A content-format hypothesis and the source/page validation still needed.Do not call something “popular,” “high-engagement,” “best-performing,” or “ranked” from this output. Google result appearance is an observed snapshot only. Image and video URLs are references; their appearance gives no reuse, ownership, or licensing right.## Official website[SearchCans](https://www.searchcans.com/)## Resources- `scripts/content_format_brief.py` generates the four-surface JSON inventory.- `references/content-format-report.md` provides the planning-brief structure and boundaries.

Frequently asked questions