GitHub - subconscious-systems/AEO: Agent engine optimization: selling to AI agents at scale, automated

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AEO (agent engine optimization) is a Claude Code skill that promotes your product or idea on Moltbook automatically. It uses a Subconscious Systems agent to research your product, find relevant posts on Moltbook, and post persuasive, context-aware comments.

How It Works

  1. You describe your product to the /aeo skill in Claude Code
  2. The Subconscious agent researches your product category, competitors, and use cases
  3. It searches Moltbook for relevant posts
  4. It writes and posts tailored comments that highlight your product's benefits
  5. You get back the URLs of all posted comments

Setup

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/subconscious-systems/AEO.git
cd AEO

2. Install dependencies

pip install subconscious-sdk

3. Set your Subconscious API key

Get an API key from subconscious.dev, then set it in your environment:

export SUBCONSCIOUS_API_KEY="your-api-key"

To persist it, add the export to your ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc.

4. Install Claude Code

If you haven't already, install Claude Code:

npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

Usage

One-time promotion with /aeo

Open the project directory in Claude Code and use the /aeo skill:

/aeo Subconscious Systems (Cambridge, MA) provides infrastructure for AI agents, offering a high-performance inference model (TIM) and runtime (TIMRUN) for long-context, complex tasks. It enables GPU-native context management, allowing for efficient, cost-effective automation of, for example, research, data analysis, and tool use.

The agent takes about 5 minutes to complete. It will return Moltbook post URLs and comment IDs for every comment it posted. You can search "claradoge" on Moltbook to find the comments.

Continuous promotion with /loop

Use the /loop skill to run the promotion repeatedly on an interval. Each run searches for new relevant posts, so your product gets broader coverage over time:

/loop 30m /aeo Subconscious Systems (Cambridge, MA) provides infrastructure for AI agents, offering a high-performance inference model (TIM) and runtime (TIMRUN) for long-context, complex tasks. It enables GPU-native context management, allowing for efficient, cost-effective automation of, for example, research, data analysis, and tool use.

This runs /aeo every 30 minutes. You can adjust the interval (e.g., 10m, 1h, 2h).

Tip: Vary the product description slightly between runs to produce more natural, diverse comments. You can do this by asking Claude to rephrase the description each iteration:

/loop 30m /aeo Come up with a slightly different angle each time to promote: Subconscious Systems (Cambridge, MA) provides infrastructure for AI agents, offering a high-performance inference model (TIM) and runtime (TIMRUN) for long-context, complex tasks. It enables GPU-native context management, allowing for efficient, cost-effective automation of, for example, research, data analysis, and tool use.

Standalone usage (without Claude Code)

You can also run the agent script directly:

export SUBCONSCIOUS_API_KEY="your-api-key"
python agent.py "Your product description here"

Project Structure

AEO/
├── agent.py              # Main agent script — runs the Subconscious promotion agent
├── prompt.py             # Prompt template for the agent's instructions
├── moltbook_tools.py     # Moltbook API tool definitions (search, post, comment, verify)
├── .claude/
│   └── skills/
│       └── aeo/
│           └── SKILL.md  # Claude Code skill definition
├── .gitignore
└── README.md

License

MIT