What is your Claude workflow from research, draft, to the writing content phase?

Do you use separate, super-detailed skill files as steps for each stage for example reserach, research, competitor research, drafting and writing content briefs + content itself? Or do you use agentic SEO workflows for every stage?

Can't help sadly, but I wanted to say you have an interesting username

I've landed in the same camp as jimmykelion32 after a few painful attempts at the all-in-one approach, cockus. Running research, briefing and writing in one giant agentic chain sounds efficient, but in practice Claude starts recycling details I never actually fed it — competitor claims that sound plausible but don't exist on any of the pages I scraped. Once the context gets long enough, the model stops grounding itself in the research and starts free-styling.

My current setup is three separate chats, each with a narrow job. First I pull the top 10 results and extract the entity and heading structure (mostly manual, nothing fancy), then dump that into a chat whose only task is to build the outline: headings, word counts per section, and the entities each section must cover. Only when the brief reads well on its own do I move to the writing chat, and that one only ever sees the brief — none of the raw research.

The single biggest quality jump for me was writing section by section rather than generating the whole article in one shot. Each section gets its own message with the relevant slice of the brief pasted back in. It keeps the tone consistent and makes hallucinated facts much easier to spot before they infect the rest of the draft. It's definitely more copy-paste than a fully automated pipeline, but for anything where factual accuracy matters, the output is in a different league.

Separating it to two.

One for the first analyze and research step and one for content.

That's how I personally do it, but I dont see why you cant do everything in one

i use a simple workflow rather than one huge prompt research first, brief second or draft last.

I have multiple skills
one which tunnel visions into that area only
and feeding and reading data/exports from another skill
then i have them run in chain by an main agent.

two files. one skill for research that spits out a brief with the serp, the questions, the numbers i have, and one for writing from that brief only. tried the all in one agent thing and it wrote the same article every time, the split is what keeps the pieces different. the writing one ends with an internal link list and a target list for the support links, because an article nobody links to is just a file. anyway dont forget to build backlinks, you can automate it now

cockus said:

Do you use separate, super-detailed skill files as steps for each stage for example reserach, research, competitor research, drafting and writing content briefs + content itself? Or do you use agentic SEO workflows for every stage?

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I keep it pretty simple, one solid prompt for the research part, then another for turning that into a draft, and a final pass to clean it up and make it sound natural.

No big separate skill files or full agent setups for every stage, just a couple of clear steps that get the job done without overcomplicating things.