A skill your agent uses when applies to key landing pages, blog posts, product pages, and any page targeting competitive queries.

MITAuto-check passedFrontend & Design

Install Word Count

skills CLI
$ npx skills add thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist --skill word-count -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist word-count --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/word-count .claude/skills/word-count && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
word-count
GitHub stars
74k
Token cost
~577 tokens
SKILL.md length
273 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
390
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when applies to key landing pages, blog posts, product pages, and any page targeting competitive queries.

  • Applies to key landing pages
  • SKILL.md covers Quick Reference, Check, Fix and Explain, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Any page targeting competitive queries

What it does

Word Count is an agent skill from thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist. Use when applies to key landing pages, blog posts, product pages, and any page targeting competitive queries. Use when diagnosing poor rankings or after a Google Helpful Content update.

Its SKILL.md is about 580 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/rule.md`).

It sits in Frontend & Design, covering Landing pages and Blog and article writing. The repository describes itself as: 🗂 The essential checklist for modern web development, for humans and AI agents. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Applies to key landing pages
  • Any page targeting competitive queries
  • Diagnosing poor rankings
  • After a Google Helpful Content update

Example prompts

  • “/word-count”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit e8d14d0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • frontendchecklist.io

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Word Count loads about 577 tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.9k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 49 tokens; SKILL.md has 273 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~49
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~577
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~1.9k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist at commit e8d14d0, republished under its MIT licence (© thedaviddias). 273 words, ~577 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/word-count/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
word-count
description
Use when applies to key landing pages, blog posts, product pages, and any page targeting competitive queries. Use when diagnosing poor rankings or after a Google Helpful Content update.
metadata.category
seo
metadata.priority
medium
metadata.difficulty
beginner
metadata.estimatedTime
10
metadata.source
frontendchecklist.io
metadata.url
https://frontendchecklist.io/rules/seo/word-count

Avoid thin content on key pages

Google's quality systems penalise pages that provide little original value — thin pages on important topics lose rankings to competitors with more comprehensive, useful content.

Quick Reference

  • Thin content is not defined by word count alone — a 200-word page that fully answers a query is not thin
  • Pages with very little unique content (under ~200 words) that don't satisfy user intent risk being considered low-quality
  • Google's Helpful Content guidance emphasizes depth, accuracy, and usefulness over raw word count
  • Compare content depth to top-ranking competitors for the target query rather than applying a fixed word count

Check

For key pages, count visible body text words (excluding navigation, headers, footers). Flag pages under 200 words of unique body content. For content pages targeting informational queries, compare depth to the top 3 ranking pages. Identify pages with boilerplate text or thin CMS templates.

Fix

Expand thin pages by addressing topics users are actually looking for: add FAQs, examples, comparisons, how-to steps, or data. Remove or consolidate thin pages that cannot be meaningfully expanded. Add noindex to thin utility pages that should not compete in search.

Explain

Explain what thin content means in Google's quality systems, why word count alone is not a valid metric, and how to evaluate content depth relative to user intent and competitive content.

Code Review

Review metadata generation, rendered HTML, structured data, and response headers related to Avoid thin content on key pages. Flag exact routes or templates where search-facing output violates the rule, and describe how to verify the final page output.


For full implementation details, code examples, and framework-specific guidance, see references/rule.md.

Rule page: https://frontendchecklist.io/rules/seo/word-count

© thedaviddias, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in skills/word-count of thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/rule.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit e8d14d0

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Questions about Word Count

What does Word Count do?

A skill your agent uses when applies to key landing pages, blog posts, product pages, and any page targeting competitive queries. Word Count is an agent skill from thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist. Use when applies to key landing pages, blog posts, product pages, and any page targeting competitive queries.

When should I use Word Count?

Word Count fits situations like: applies to key landing pages; any page targeting competitive queries; diagnosing poor rankings; after a Google Helpful Content update.

How do I install Word Count in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist --skill word-count -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/word-count in thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist) into .claude/skills/word-count in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Word Count in Codex?

Run `npx skills add thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist --skill word-count -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/word-count in thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist) into .agents/skills/word-count in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Word Count in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist --skill word-count -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/word-count, .gemini/skills/word-count, .github/skills/word-count and .opencode/skills/word-count in your project.

What does Word Count need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Word Count is instructions for the agent only.

Does Word Count access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: frontendchecklist.io. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Word Count safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Word Count use?

Word Count is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Word Count use?

About 577 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 1.3k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Word Count?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Word Count: Skill Finder (Affitor/affiliate-skills, 701 stars), Auteur (agiwhitelist/auteur, 1k stars), Landing Page Copywriter (julianromli/ai-skills, 191 stars) and Bio Link Deployer (Affitor/affiliate-skills, 701 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Word Count?

thedaviddias (a GitHub user) maintains it in thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist, which has 74,421 GitHub stars. The repository holds 390 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.

Source: thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.