Technical SEO site audit via the DataForSEO On-Page API. An agent skill from zubair-trabzada/dataforseo-claude.

MITAuto-check: notesMarketing & SEO

Install SEO Technical

skills CLI
$ npx skills add zubair-trabzada/dataforseo-claude --skill seo-technical -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install zubair-trabzada/dataforseo-claude seo-technical --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zubair-trabzada/dataforseo-claude.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/seo-technical .claude/skills/seo-technical && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
seo-technical
GitHub stars
165
Token cost
~1k tokens
SKILL.md length
404 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
16
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Technical SEO site audit via the DataForSEO On-Page API. An agent skill from zubair-trabzada/dataforseo-claude.

  • Works in 7 steps: Parse login: and password: from their… → Write them to ~/.claude/skills/seo/.env → chmod 600 ~/.claude/skills/seo/.env → …
  • Tasks that involve Technical SEO
  • SKILL.md covers Phase 0: Credential Preflight…, Run, Categories to evaluate and Issue priority rubric, plus 2 more sections
  • Needs DATAFORSEO_PASSWORD

What it does

SEO Technical is an agent skill from zubair-trabzada/dataforseo-claude. Technical SEO site audit via the DataForSEO On-Page API. Crawls the site (up to 100 pages by default), surfaces critical errors (broken links, redirect chains, missing meta, slow pages, schema gaps, indexability issues), and returns a Technical Score (0-100) with prioritized fixes.

Its SKILL.md is about 1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Marketing & SEO, covering Technical SEO and SEO audit. The repository describes itself as: SEO Agency Killer for Claude Code — powered by DataForSEO. 13 skills + 5 subagents for keyword research, rank tracking, backlink audits, technical crawls, competitor analysis… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Technical SEO
  • Tasks that involve SEO audit

Example prompts

  • “/seo-technical”

Requirements

  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Bash, Write

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Parse login: and password: from their message.
  2. Write them to ~/.claude/skills/seo/.env
  3. chmod 600 ~/.claude/skills/seo/.env
  4. Run a verification call: ~/.claude/skills/seo/scripts/keyword_research.py volume "test"
  5. If verification succeeds (real JSON returned): tell the user "✅ Credentials verified. Running your command now..." and proceed with the…
  6. If status 40104 — Please verify your account: tell the user to verify their account at https://app.dataforseo.com/, then say "continue" to…
  7. If any other auth error: ask them to double-check the API password (the long alphanumeric string from…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 67ac4f0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Bash
    • Write

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are bash and json).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • dataforseo.com

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

    • DATAFORSEO_PASSWORD

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

SEO Technical loads about 1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 74 tokens; SKILL.md has 404 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~74
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check: notes

The automated check noted patterns worth knowing about, such as sudo or a known installer.

  • NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:29
    2. Write them to `~/.claude/skills/seo/.env`:
  • NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:34
    3. `chmod 600 ~/.claude/skills/seo/.env`
  • NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md
    allowed-tools: Bash, Write

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from zubair-trabzada/dataforseo-claude at commit 67ac4f0, republished under its MIT licence (© zubair-trabzada). 404 words, ~1,042 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/seo-technical/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
seo-technical
description
Technical SEO site audit via the DataForSEO On-Page API. Crawls the site (up to 100 pages by default), surfaces critical errors (broken links, redirect chains, missing meta, slow pages, schema gaps, indexability issues), and returns a Technical Score (0-100) with prioritized fixes.
allowed-tools
Bash, Write

Phase 0: Credential Preflight (REQUIRED — run BEFORE anything else)

Before running any of the steps below, always invoke the shared preflight check:

bash
~/.claude/skills/seo/scripts/preflight.sh

If exit code is 0: credentials are configured — proceed with the rest of this skill silently.

If exit code is 2: the script prints the DataForSEO setup wizard to stdout. STOP, display that wizard to the user verbatim, and wait for them to paste credentials in this format:

login: their_email@example.com
password: their_api_password_here

When they reply:

  1. Parse login: and password: from their message.
  2. Write them to ~/.claude/skills/seo/.env:
    DATAFORSEO_LOGIN=<login>
    DATAFORSEO_PASSWORD=<password>
  3. chmod 600 ~/.claude/skills/seo/.env
  4. Run a verification call: ~/.claude/skills/seo/scripts/keyword_research.py volume "test"
  5. If verification succeeds (real JSON returned): tell the user "✅ Credentials verified. Running your command now..." and proceed with the original request.
  6. If status 40104 — Please verify your account: tell the user to verify their account at https://app.dataforseo.com/, then say "continue" to retry.
  7. If any other auth error: ask them to double-check the API password (the long alphanumeric string from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-access — not their account login password).

Never echo credentials back to the user, never include them in tool output, and never commit them.


Technical SEO Audit Skill

Powered by: DataForSEO API — On-Page instant_pages (single URL) and On-Page task_post + summary + pages (full crawl). Cost: ~$0.05-0.10 per 100-page crawl. Crawl takes 2-5 minutes.

Run

For a single page (instant):

bash
~/.claude/skills/seo/scripts/on_page_audit.py page --url <url>

For a full site crawl (2-5 min for 100 pages):

bash
~/.claude/skills/seo/scripts/on_page_audit.py site --target <domain> --max-crawl-pages 100

Categories to evaluate

Pull from the summary.checks and per-page checks objects:

Show full SKILL.md (166 more words)Show less
Indexability & Crawl
  • is_4xx_code, is_5xx_code, is_redirect chains > 2 hops
  • canonical mismatches
  • robots_txt, blocked resources
  • is_https, mixed content
On-page meta
  • Missing/duplicate <title>, <meta description>
  • Title length (should be 50-60 chars), description (140-160)
  • h1 missing or duplicate
  • Heading hierarchy gaps
Speed & Core Web Vitals
  • time_to_interactive, largest_contentful_paint
  • cumulative_layout_shift
  • Resource errors
Content quality
  • plain_text_word_count < 300 = thin content
  • plain_text_rate (text vs. HTML)
  • automated_readability_index
Structured data
  • Schema present? Which types?
  • Missing organization / article / breadcrumb / product schema for the site type

Issue priority rubric

PriorityExamples
Critical5xx errors, no-index on key pages, broken canonical, mixed content, robots.txt blocking
HighMissing titles/descriptions on indexable pages, broken internal links, redirect chains, slow LCP (>4s)
MediumDuplicate titles/descriptions, missing alt text at scale, thin content (<300 words) on key pages
LowHeading hierarchy gaps, suboptimal title length, missing schema

Technical Score (0-100)

Start at 100. Subtract:

  • 15 per critical issue (max 60)
  • 5 per high issue (max 30)
  • 1 per medium issue (max 15)
  • 0.2 per low issue (max 5)

Floor at 0.

Return JSON shape

json
{
  "technical_score": 72,
  "crawl_summary": {"pages_crawled": 100, "errors": 8, "warnings": 23},
  "critical_issues": [{"title": "...", "count": 3, "recommendation": "..."}],
  "high_issues": [...],
  "medium_issues": [...]
}

© zubair-trabzada, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/seo-technical of zubair-trabzada/dataforseo-claude.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 67ac4f0

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Questions about SEO Technical

What does SEO Technical do?

Technical SEO site audit via the DataForSEO On-Page API. An agent skill from zubair-trabzada/dataforseo-claude. SEO Technical is an agent skill from zubair-trabzada/dataforseo-claude. Technical SEO site audit via the DataForSEO On-Page API.

When should I use SEO Technical?

SEO Technical fits situations like: tasks that involve Technical SEO; tasks that involve SEO audit.

How do I install SEO Technical in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add zubair-trabzada/dataforseo-claude --skill seo-technical -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/seo-technical in zubair-trabzada/dataforseo-claude) into .claude/skills/seo-technical in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install SEO Technical in Codex?

Run `npx skills add zubair-trabzada/dataforseo-claude --skill seo-technical -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/seo-technical in zubair-trabzada/dataforseo-claude) into .agents/skills/seo-technical in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use SEO Technical in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add zubair-trabzada/dataforseo-claude --skill seo-technical -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/seo-technical, .gemini/skills/seo-technical, .github/skills/seo-technical and .opencode/skills/seo-technical in your project.

What does SEO Technical need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, SEO Technical needs credentials named DATAFORSEO_PASSWORD. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Bash, Write.

Does SEO Technical access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: dataforseo.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is SEO Technical safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found notes only (mentions a .env file; pre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: bash)), nothing it rates as a warning. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does SEO Technical use?

SEO Technical is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does SEO Technical use?

About 1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to SEO Technical?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with SEO Technical: Site Architecture (AvdLee/RocketSimApp, 806 stars), Hreflang and International SEO (AgriciDaniel/claude-seo, 19k stars), Google SEO APIs (AgriciDaniel/claude-seo, 19k stars) and GEO-First SEO Audit Tool (zubair-trabzada/geo-seo-claude, 11k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains SEO Technical?

zubair-trabzada (a GitHub user) maintains it in zubair-trabzada/dataforseo-claude, which has 165 GitHub stars. The repository holds 16 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on May 20, 2026.

Source: zubair-trabzada/dataforseo-claude on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.