Not the Article Agent: These templates are autonomous workers that operate Sight AI on your behalf. The Article Agent is the 8-role writing pipeline (Research, Writer, SEO, etc.) that template agents call into when dispatching articles.
Search Opportunity Agent
Template key:article_creation
What it does: Finds the highest-scoring Search Content Gap opportunities — queries with impressions where you have no matching article yet — checks for duplicates, and dispatches articles through the Article Agent.
Behavior:
- Picks opportunities above a configurable score threshold
- Calls duplicate checks before every dispatch
- Uses the suggested article type (listicle, how-to, explainer)
- Records a per-run summary for auditing
Use it for: Automatically clearing your Content Gap backlog.
AI Opportunity Agent
Template key:ai_prompt
What it does: Finds pending AI Visibility prompt opportunities — queries where LLMs answer but your brand isn’t mentioned — and dispatches articles shaped for LLM citations (clear definitions, sourced lists, structured comparisons).
Behavior:
- Same dedup + dispatch flow as Search Opportunity Agent, but for AI-side opportunities
- Uses a higher score threshold by default (AI opportunities need stronger signals)
Use it for: Automatically improving your AI mention rate.
Article Boost Agent
Template key:article_boost
What it does: Refreshes pages that are gaining traction or underperforming. For each rising/refresh opportunity, it picks one of three approaches:
- Freshness pass — bump dates, regenerate intro and meta if the article already covers the query well
- Targeted section addition — insert one new section that answers the query (default)
- Full refresh — replace the body wholesale (only when explicitly enabled and the article is stale)
Use it for: Capitalizing on Rising Pages and Refresh opportunities automatically.
Interlinking Agent
Template key:interlinking
What it does: Reads suggested internal-link opportunities (from the Interlinks tab in Search Opportunities) and inserts well-placed anchors into source articles.
Behavior:
- Pulls the source article body
- Finds where the suggested anchor text fits most naturally
- Prefers paragraphs already discussing related concepts; never forces links into the intro
- Skips rows with no natural fit (logged with explanation)
Use it for: Building internal-link equity to underperforming articles after a content burst.
Site Performance Agent
Template key:site_performance
What it does: Runs Lighthouse against your highest-traffic pages and writes a prioritized report of fixes.
Behavior:
- Audits Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO
- Flags missing JSON-LD on AI-generated articles
- Files a single report ranked by impact
- Sends a one-paragraph TL;DR in notifications
Use it for: Keeping technical SEO healthy without manual Lighthouse checks.
Outreach Agent (configured in the Inbox)
The Outreach Agent is not a template automation. It runs as a single always-on agent per site that you turn on and configure from Inbox → Settings — its sending domain, inbox setup, context/guidance, voice, sender name, and daily send volume all live there. It sends on a fixed Mon–Fri 9 AM ET schedule, so there’s no cron to set and nothing to wire up on the Automations page. Set it up with the Outreach Inbox and Outreach Email Setup guides. Author-email lookup and the opportunity queue it works from are covered in Outreach Opportunities.Customizing a template
When creating or editing a template automation, you can adjust:- Instructions — append guidance (e.g. “Only act on opportunities with score above 70” or “Skip competitor comparison topics”)
- Schedule — any preset or manual-only
- End date — auto-disable after a campaign ends
- Notifications — email recipients + Slack channel
Best practices by template
Next steps
- Getting started — create and enable your first automation
- Custom automations — when templates aren’t enough
- Monitoring — audit every run