SEO Orchestrator (the open suite that beats Visibly / Semrush / Ahrefs)

You orchestrate the full SEO + GEO workflow. The pitch from incumbents (Semrush, Ahrefs, Visibly AI, Conductor, Moz, BrightEdge): pay $129-$999/month for a closed dashboard that wraps Google's data plus a handful of features they've bolted on. The pitch here: your own code, your own data, the same coverage plus the 2026 AI-search layer they're not yet covering.

This is the front door. Behind it sit 10 sub-skills, each doing one job extremely well. The orchestrator runs them in the right order, dedupes their findings, and presents a single ranked action list.

============================================================ === HOW THIS BEATS VISIBLY AI HEAD-TO-HEAD ===

Capability	Visibly AI	This suite
Crawling agent (sitemap + JS-rendered)	✅	✅ via /seo-audit-2026 + /internal-link-graph
SEO analyst (GSC + GA4 integration)	✅	✅ via /gsc-pull
Strategist (topical clusters + keyword plans)	✅	✅ via /internal-link-graph cluster analysis + /seo-content-brief
Copywriter (drafts content)	✅	✅ via /wp-content-write + /seo-content-brief
Chief Editor (E-E-A-T + quality checks)	✅	✅ via /seo-audit-2026 Phase 6 + /geo-optimize Phase 5
Consultant (insights / advice)	✅	✅ via this orchestrator's punch list
AI search citation tracking (ChatGPT / Perplexity / Claude / Gemini / AI Overviews)	❌	✅ via /ai-citation-tracker
Cannibalization detection + resolution patches	partial	✅ via /content-cannibalization
Semantic internal linking (not keyword matching)	partial	✅ via /internal-link-graph
llms.txt + schema generation	partial	✅ via /geo-optimize
AI crawler parity testing (GPTBot / PerplexityBot / ClaudeBot)	❌	✅ via /seo-audit-2026 + /geo-optimize
Entity density audit (15+ entity threshold)	❌	✅ via /geo-optimize
E-E-A-T author entity (Person + sameAs chain)	partial	✅ via /geo-optimize + /seo-audit-2026
Open data (your DB, exportable)	❌	✅ SQLite / Postgres / BigQuery — your choice
Open code (your repo, auditable, extensible)	❌	✅ everything generated, nothing hidden
Composable with non-SEO agents	❌	✅ chains with any skills-hub skill
Cost	€39-€399/month	API costs only (~$10-50/month for citation polling)

============================================================ === PRE-FLIGHT ===

• Site URL + property: domain + GSC property + GA4 property (if available).
• Brand list: canonical brand name + aliases + key personnel.
• Competitor list: 5-15 brands for share-of-voice tracking.
• Target query universe: 50-500 priority queries. Bootstrap from GSC top queries if unsure.
• API keys:
  • Google Search Console API (service account)
  • Google Analytics 4 API (optional)
  • One of: OpenAI (ChatGPT), Anthropic (Claude), Perplexity API, Google AI Studio (Gemini)
  • SerpAPI / Bright Data SERP (for AI Overviews tracking — no first-party API)
• CMS access (WordPress, Hugo, Ghost, Next.js MDX, etc.) — needed for content publishing + redirect/canonical patches.
• Storage: SQLite for solo / Postgres for team / BigQuery for enterprise.
• Cadence preference: daily, weekly, or on-demand?

Recovery:

• Missing GA4: skill suite still functional — falls back to GSC clicks only.
• Missing AI engine APIs: degrades to Playwright headless polling for those engines (slower, more brittle).
• No competitor list: derive top 5 from AI citation polling after 1 week, then ask user to confirm.

============================================================ === PHASE 1: ONE-TIME SETUP ===

First run only. Bootstraps the data layer.

# 1. Initialize storage
mkdir seo/ && cd seo/
sqlite3 seo.db < schema.sql   # composed schema from all sub-skills

# 2. Wire credentials (env file)
cat > .env <<EOF
GSC_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_PATH=./creds/gsc-sa.json
GSC_SITE_URL=sc-domain:example.com
GA4_PROPERTY_ID=...
OPENAI_API_KEY=...
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=...
PERPLEXITY_API_KEY=...
GOOGLE_AI_API_KEY=...
SERPAPI_KEY=...
EOF

# 3. Initial backfill (one-time, ~30 min)
/gsc-pull --backfill 16months
/internal-link-graph --crawl
/ai-citation-tracker --backfill 4weeks    # seeds historical baseline
/seo-audit-2026 --full

VALIDATION: Setup completes; all integrations green; baseline data in DB.

============================================================ === PHASE 2: DAILY WORKFLOW (cron) ===

Runs every day at 02:00. Generated cron:

# Cron: 0 2 * * *
cd /path/to/seo

# Pull yesterday's GSC data
/gsc-pull --daily

# Poll top 25 priority queries across all engines
/ai-citation-tracker --priority-queries

# Detect critical regressions
/seo-orchestrator --daily-deltas

Daily output: daily_alert_{date}.md — sent to Slack if any of:

• Top-10 query lost > 30% clicks
• Top-10 query lost > 3 positions
• Newly cited competitor on tracked query
• Brand mention sentiment swing > 0.3

VALIDATION: Daily run finishes in < 5 minutes. Alert fires only on genuine regressions.

============================================================ === PHASE 3: WEEKLY WORKFLOW ===

Runs Monday 03:00. The "Monday morning intel briefing."

# 1. Refresh data
/gsc-pull --weekly                   # 7-day rollup + WoW delta
/internal-link-graph --recrawl       # weekly fresh crawl
/ai-citation-tracker --full-universe # all priority queries

# 2. Run analyses
/seo-audit-2026 --priority-pages     # focus on movers + cannibalized clusters
/geo-optimize --punch-list           # GEO findings
/content-cannibalization              # cluster analysis
/internal-link-graph --recommendations # new semantic link recs

# 3. Compose
/seo-orchestrator --weekly-report

Generates weekly_report.md:

# SEO Weekly — {site} — {week}

## Headline
- Total clicks WoW: +X (+Y%)
- AI Overview citations: gained N, lost M
- ChatGPT citations: gained N, lost M  
- Perplexity citations: gained N, lost M
- Cannibalization clusters: N detected, M resolved this week
- New orphan pages: N (from /internal-link-graph)
- Audit P0 issues: N open (from /seo-audit-2026)

## P0 — Do this week
1. [Cannibalization] "best CRM" cluster → 301 /blog/reviews to /blog/best-crm. Expected: +180 clicks/week. Effort: 30 min.
2. [GEO] Add Organization + Person schema to homepage. Expected: +AI Overview eligibility. Effort: 1 hour.
3. [Citation gap] "API rate limits" — competitor X cited in ChatGPT + Perplexity. Run /seo-content-brief to plan response. Effort: 4 hours content.

## P1 — Do this month
{ordered list}

## Trends
- Branded vs nonbranded split: {chart}
- AI search share-of-voice trajectory: {chart}
- Position distribution: top-3 vs 4-10 vs 11+ {chart}

VALIDATION: Weekly report under 2 pages, every P0/P1 has expected impact + effort.

============================================================ === PHASE 4: ON-DEMAND WORKFLOWS ===

Common explicit asks:

"Write content for query X":

/ai-citation-tracker --query "X" --inspect    # what's already cited
/seo-content-brief --query "X"                 # 2026 brief w/ entities + intent
/wp-content-write --brief brief_X.md           # if WordPress

"Fix our checkout page rankings":

/gsc-pull --page /checkout
/seo-audit-2026 --url /checkout
/internal-link-graph --target /checkout       # find link gaps

"Competitor X just launched a new pillar — analyze":

/ai-citation-tracker --competitor X
/content-cannibalization --against X

"Site migration — minimize SEO damage":

/seo-audit-2026 --pre-migration       # baseline
# ... migrate ...
/seo-audit-2026 --post-migration --diff
/gsc-pull --post-migration-monitoring

VALIDATION: Each on-demand workflow chains the right sub-skills with the right inputs.

============================================================ === PHASE 5: PUNCH LIST PRIORITIZATION ===

The orchestrator's core job: dedupe findings across sub-skills and rank by impact × confidence × inverse effort.

Each finding has shape:

{
  "id": "uuid",
  "source_skill": "geo-optimize | seo-audit-2026 | ...",
  "category": "P0_BLOCKING | P1_HIGH | P2_MEDIUM | P3_POLISH",
  "title": "...",
  "description": "...",
  "expected_impact": {"metric": "clicks_weekly", "delta": 180, "confidence": 0.8},
  "effort_hours": 0.5,
  "blocked_by": [],
  "files_to_change": ["..."],
  "fix_snippet": "..."
}

Dedup rules:

• If two sub-skills flag the same URL with similar fix, merge into one finding with both sources cited.
• If a fix is blocked by another (e.g., cannibalization 301 depends on internal link audit), respect blocked_by order.

Rank: score = expected_impact.delta * confidence / effort_hours. Surface top 20.

VALIDATION: Top 20 has no duplicates. Score reasoning is auditable per finding.

============================================================ === PHASE 6: CMS PUBLISHING INTEGRATION ===

For each fix that touches a page, generate a CMS-specific patch:

CMS	Patch format
WordPress	REST API call OR migration .sql OR Redirection plugin CSV
Hugo / Jekyll / Astro / Next.js MDX	git diff (markdown) committed to repo
Webflow	CMS export JSON + Designer notes
Squarespace	Manual step (CMS doesn't have a programmatic write API for blocks) — generate exact text + screenshot of where to paste
Shopify	Admin API call OR theme.liquid patch
Ghost	Admin API call

Generate publish_queue/ with one patch file per pending fix. Optionally chain /wp-publish to push WordPress.

VALIDATION: Each patch is syntactically valid for its CMS.

============================================================ === PHASE 7: COST DASHBOARD ===

Track API spend across sub-skills:

## SEO Suite — Monthly Cost — {month}

| Source | Calls | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| GSC API | 2,400 | $0 (free) |
| GA4 API | 600 | $0 (free) |
| OpenAI (ChatGPT browsing) | 750 polls | $4.20 |
| Anthropic Claude | 750 polls | $3.80 |
| Perplexity | 750 polls | $2.10 |
| Gemini | 750 polls | $1.30 |
| SerpAPI (AI Overviews) | 1500 calls | $7.50 |
| OpenAI embeddings | 5M tokens | $0.10 |
| **Total** | | **$19.00** |

Compare to: Visibly AI Pro €119/mo, Semrush $129/mo, Ahrefs Lite $129/mo, Conductor $$$$

VALIDATION: Cost summary matches actual API billing.

============================================================ === SELF-REVIEW ===

Score 1-5:

• Complete: All sub-skills wired? Daily + weekly + on-demand workflows working?
• Robust: Single sub-skill failure doesn't break orchestration?
• Clean: One ranked punch list, no duplicates?
• Competitive: Side-by-side with Visibly / Semrush, does this win on the AI-search dimension AND match on classic SEO?

Common gap: data freshness inconsistency — citation data from Monday but GSC data from Sunday makes the report incoherent. Pin all weekly sub-skills to the same as_of timestamp.

============================================================ === LEARNINGS CAPTURE ===

~/.claude/skills/seo-orchestrator/LEARNINGS.md.

============================================================ === STRICT RULES ===

• Never run sub-skills in parallel without explicit data-freshness coordination. Pin the as_of to a single timestamp per run.
• Never run the full weekly pipeline more than once per week. Daily deltas vs weekly trends — different cadences, different intent.
• Never publish CMS patches autonomously without human review for the first 30 days. Trust takes time; one bad 301 hurts.
• Never skip the cost dashboard. AI engine polling adds up; budget visibility is a feature, not optional.
• Always preserve the punch list history. Month-over-month resolution counts are how you prove value.

============================================================ === INSTALL & QUICKSTART ===

# 1. Install via skills-hub CLI
npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install seo-orchestrator
npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install ai-citation-tracker gsc-pull internal-link-graph content-cannibalization
npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install seo-audit-2026 geo-optimize seo-content-brief

# 2. Initial run
/seo-orchestrator --setup

# 3. Schedule daily + weekly via cron (or use /schedule)
/seo-orchestrator --schedule daily weekly

You now have a production SEO suite running on your data, your code, your stack — for ~$20/month in API costs.