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GEO Ghost Stack — Seven-Layer Structured Data That Makes AI Systems Cite Your Site

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Aaron

A blank white page became the #1 cited source in Perplexity within 36 hours — no visible content, just seven layers of machine-readable signals hidden underneath. This is a reusable agent skill that lets you audit and scaffold those same layers on any website. The seven layers: Semantic meta tags + VibeTags (brand signals for crawlers) JSON-LD structured data (schema.org (http://schema.org/) — Organization, Person, FAQPage, Service) sr-only narrative (DOM content accessible to screen readers and AI, no visual render) Microdata attributes (inline entity markup) llms.txt (emerging standard — like robots.txt but for LLMs) reasoning.json (Ed25519-signed claims via the Agentic Reasoning Protocol / IETF draft-deforth-arp-00) /.well-known/ai-manifest.json (AI bot discovery manifest) Includes an audit script that scores any URL 0–100 across all seven layers, and a scaffold script that generates the full stack from a YAML config. Works as an agent skill for Claude Code, OpenClaw, Codex CLI, Cursor — or standalone via the Python scripts. Based on the phantomauthority.ai (http://phantomauthority.ai/) experiment by Sascha Deforth, who proved that RAG systems have zero content provenance verification and published the fix as an IETF Internet-Draft. We use it honestly — backing every layer with real content and real claims — for AI visibility work with businesses in Phnom Penh. Repo: https://github.com/blkfoxco/geo-ghost-stack-skill https://openclawphnompenh.com (https://openclawphnompenh.com/) (llms.txt, JSON-LD, meta layers deployed) https://phantomauthority.ai (https://phantomauthority.ai/) https://arp-protocol.org (https://arp-protocol.org/)