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Answer extractability pass

An assistant quotes a span it can lift without rewriting. Prose that buries the answer three clauses into a paragraph is readable by a human and useless to a model choosing what to cite. This skill restructures existing content so the answer is extractable, without turning it into a listicle.

CATEGORY
AI search (GEO)
FORMAT
answer-extractability-pass.md
STEPS
6
PRICE
Free - no account
WHEN TO REACH FOR THIS

Use when a page ranks well but is never quoted by AI assistants, and you need to make its claims liftable rather than merely present.

The skill file

answer-extractability-pass.md 
---
name: answer-extractability-pass
description: Use when a page ranks well but is never quoted by AI assistants, and you need to make its claims liftable rather than merely present.
---

# Answer extractability pass

An assistant quotes a span it can lift without rewriting. Prose that buries the answer three clauses into a paragraph is readable by a human and useless to a model choosing what to cite. This skill restructures existing content so the answer is extractable, without turning it into a listicle.

## What you need first

- A page that ranks but is not cited
- The questions it should answer, in the words people actually use

## Method

1. For each question the page addresses, find the sentence that answers it. If no single sentence does, that is the defect - write one.
2. Move that sentence to the first position under its heading. Assistants weight the opening of a section far more heavily than its middle.
3. Make the answer self-contained. A sentence beginning "it does this by" cannot be quoted, because the antecedent is in the previous paragraph and will not travel with it.
4. Convert the heading into the question itself where that is honest. A heading reading "Pricing" answers nothing; "What does it cost?" matches the query and marks the span that follows as its answer.
5. Attach a concrete figure, date or name to each claim. Assistants prefer citable specifics over adjectives, and a claim with a number is far more likely to be quoted verbatim.
6. Read each answer sentence in isolation, with no surrounding context. If it does not stand alone, it will not be quoted.

## What this produces

The same page with one self-contained answer sentence in first position under each question-shaped heading.

## Where this goes wrong

- Turning the page into bullet soup, which reads worse to humans and gains nothing
- Writing answer sentences that depend on a pronoun resolved elsewhere
- Adding a FAQ block at the bottom while leaving the body unchanged - the body is what gets read

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From the QuQi skill library - https://www.quqi.io/skills/answer-extractability-pass
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What you need first

  • A page that ranks but is not cited
  • The questions it should answer, in the words people actually use

Method

  1. 01 For each question the page addresses, find the sentence that answers it. If no single sentence does, that is the defect - write one.
  2. 02 Move that sentence to the first position under its heading. Assistants weight the opening of a section far more heavily than its middle.
  3. 03 Make the answer self-contained. A sentence beginning "it does this by" cannot be quoted, because the antecedent is in the previous paragraph and will not travel with it.
  4. 04 Convert the heading into the question itself where that is honest. A heading reading "Pricing" answers nothing; "What does it cost?" matches the query and marks the span that follows as its answer.
  5. 05 Attach a concrete figure, date or name to each claim. Assistants prefer citable specifics over adjectives, and a claim with a number is far more likely to be quoted verbatim.
  6. 06 Read each answer sentence in isolation, with no surrounding context. If it does not stand alone, it will not be quoted.

What this produces

The same page with one self-contained answer sentence in first position under each question-shaped heading.

Where this goes wrong

  • Turning the page into bullet soup, which reads worse to humans and gains nothing
  • Writing answer sentences that depend on a pronoun resolved elsewhere
  • Adding a FAQ block at the bottom while leaving the body unchanged - the body is what gets read

Use this skill in your own AI

The download is a plain markdown file with the name and trigger in its frontmatter. Where an assistant supports skills it can load itself, that frontmatter is what it reads to decide this one applies.

Claude Code Save it as ~/.claude/skills/answer-extractability-pass/SKILL.md and Claude loads it on its own when what you are doing matches the trigger line. Put it in .claude/skills inside a project instead if the whole team should have it.
Claude Upload the file in the skills section of your settings. Once it is there it applies itself in any conversation where the trigger fits, so you do not have to remember it exists.
ChatGPT There is no skills format to install into, so paste the file contents into a Project instruction or a Custom GPT instead. It then applies to every chat in that project rather than only the one you paste it into.
Anything else Paste the markdown into the chat before your question. It works in any assistant, it just has to be pasted again each time.

Questions about this skill

When is an extractability pass the right move rather than writing a new page?

Reach for it when the page already ranks and the traffic is fine, but no assistant ever quotes it. The usual reaction is to write another page, or to bolt an FAQ block onto the bottom, which leaves the body that actually gets read unchanged. This restructures the sentences you already have so an answer can be lifted.

What do I need in hand before starting?

A page you know ranks, and the questions it should answer written in the words buyers actually use rather than as keywords. Without that question list you rearrange paragraphs by instinct and call it done. The question is what tells you which sentence is the answer, and whether the page currently contains one at all.

What do I end up with, and which part of it gets used?

The same page, with one self-contained answer sentence sitting first under each question-shaped heading. The heading rewrite is what gets the section retrieved; the opening sentence is what gets quoted. Test it by reading each answer sentence with nothing around it. If it opens with a pronoun whose antecedent is a paragraph away, it will not travel.

What ruins this most often?

Shredding the prose into bullets. It reads worse to humans, gains nothing in extraction, and you have traded a ranking page for a listicle. The close second is adding an FAQ block at the foot and leaving the body untouched, which costs you the work with none of the benefit, since the body is what gets read.

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