Glossary skill

The skill file

---
name: glossary
description: Write clear, consistent glossary entries that define a term in plain language, show an example, and earn definitional citations from AI answers.
owner: Moonrank Writer Agent
---

# Glossary

When an AI assistant needs to define a term, it cites the cleanest definition
it can find. A good glossary entry is a bid for that citation: one term, one
plain-language definition, one example, zero sales pitch.

## When to use
- Your industry has jargon your buyers search before they search for you.
- AI answers define your category's terms by citing competitors, not you.
- Your own pages use the same term three different ways.

## Inputs
- **Required:** the term list, sourced from buyer questions and query data.
- **Optional:** existing definitions on your site, and the competitor glossaries AI answers currently cite.

What is the Glossary skill?

The Glossary skill is how Moonrank's Writer Agent turns your category's jargon into citable pages: terms picked from what buyers actually search, defined in one plain-language sentence, illustrated with one concrete example, and structured identically so machines and readers both trust them.

It's written as a SKILL.md, a plain-language instruction format that people and AI agents can both follow. Read it to write your own entries, hand it to your content team as the house standard, or let the Writer Agent build the glossary from your query data.

Downloading the playbook is free with a Moonrank account. Tracking which definitions AI answers cite and filling the gaps term by term is what the Writer Agent does.

See it in action

From input to fix list

1. 1

   You name the territory

   Your category, and any term list or query data you already have.

2. 2

   Moonrank picks the terms

   The Writer Agent keeps terms buyers search and drops internal naming with no audience.

3. 3

   It drafts on one template

   First-sentence definition, why it matters, one concrete example, related terms — identical on every entry.

4. 4

   It wires and marks up

   Entries linked to each other and to the pages using the term, with DefinedTerm structured data.

Everything it checks

When to reach for it

• Become the source AI assistants cite when defining your category's terms.
• Capture the definitional searches buyers run before they know your name.
• Standardize how your whole site uses its own vocabulary.
• Build topical authority with pages that are cheap to write and slow to decay.
• Give new customers and new hires one canonical reference.

Frequently asked questions