Backlink prospecting is a tab-hopping chore: dashboard → export CSV → eyeball → copy domains → switch to email. It's a filter-and-rank problem, which is exactly the kind of thing an agent should do for you. So here's how to do the whole thing from inside Claude Code (or Cursor / Cline / Zed / Windsurf) with one prompt, using a free MCP server.
No affiliation required to follow along — the data is the public Common Crawl webgraph, and the MCP wrapper is open source.
What we're building toward
By the end you'll be able to type this into your agent and get back a ranked, de-noised list:
"Find the sites linking to competitor-a.com, competitor-b.com and competitor-c.com but not to my-site.com, and draft a short outreach email to each."
