Agent skill · writing content · kostja94
url-slug-generator
When the user wants to create, optimize, or validate URL slugs for content pages. Also use when the user mentions "URL slug," "URL path," "blog URL," "article URL," "short URL," "clean slug," "permalink," "slug optimization," "URL structure," "SEO-friendly URL," "create URL slug," or "SEO slug." For site-wide URL policy, use url-structure.
Why this skill is useful
Provides specific guidelines and best practices for generating SEO-friendly URL slugs that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
About 3k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-06-09. 860 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Components: URL Slug Guides creation of SEO-friendly URL slugs for blog posts, articles, and content pages. Research on 11.8M Google results shows shorter URLs tend to rank higher; position #1 URLs average 50–60 characters. When invoking: On first use, if helpful, open with 1–2 sentences on what this skill covers, then provide the main output. On subsequent use or when the user asks to skip, go directly to the main output. Scope URL slug: The path segment after the base (e.g., ai-people-search in /blog/ai-people-search) Applies to: Blog posts, articles, guides, category pages, product pages Best Practices Length Guideline Target ----------- -------- Slug length Under 60 characters total (including path prefix) Word count 3–5 words Principle Shorter = easier to read, share, remember; less truncation in SERPs; see serp-features Example: "The Complete Guide to AI Search Engine for Finding People" → ai-people-search (3 words) or ai-search-finding-people (4 words), not ai-search-engine-finding-people-speed-discovery-outreach (9 words, 51 chars). Format Rule Do Avoid ------ ----- ------- Separators Hyphens (-) Underscores (), spaces, periods Case Lowercase only Mixed case (causes duplicate content) Characters Letters (a-z), numbers (0-9), hyphens Special chars Stop words Remove when possible: the, a, and, or, to Keep when needed: "how-to" Content Rule Guideline ------ ----------- Primary keyword Include near start; one focus per URL Descriptive Clear what page is about from slug alone No keyword stuffing One keyword mention is enough No dates Omit unless time-specific (news, annual roundups) Non-ASCII Characters Scenario Rule ---------- ------ Accented letters Convert to ASCII: é→e, ü→u, ñ→n, ç→c Non-Latin scripts Use UTF-8 percent-encoding if required; prefer ASCII for compatibility Example jalapeno not jalapeño; cafe not café Common Mistakes Copy-pasting full title: Summarize instead — long title → short slug Auto-generated IDs: /post/12847 — always customize Tracking p …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills kostja94/url-slug