# astro-seo

Audits SEO settings in Astro projects and can update project files to address findings. Use it to review metadata, structured data, and indexing setup.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 500 installs · ★ 109
- Author: jdevalk
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/jdevalk/skills/tree/HEAD/astro-seo/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-07-05
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/astro-seo

## What it does

The skill first checks that the project is an Astro site, then reviews its SEO setup and reports actionable findings. Checks include head metadata, JSON-LD, content schemas, Open Graph images, sitemaps, and robots.txt. For multilingual sites, it also considers `hreflang` alternates.

It can create or edit project files to address issues. Its main package for fixes is `@jdevalk/astro-seo-graph`; generated SEO strings are passed to `metadata-check`, and the workflow ends with a build check. The `site` value in `astro.config` needs to point to the production origin. A missing value or `http://localhost` is treated as a blocking issue.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add jdevalk/skills --skill astro-seo -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/astro-seo/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/astro-seo/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add jdevalk/skills --skill astro-seo -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/astro-seo/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add jdevalk/skills --skill astro-seo -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/astro-seo/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install jdevalk/skills astro-seo
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/astro-seo/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add jdevalk/skills --skill astro-seo -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/jdevalk/skills --path astro-seo
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/astro-seo/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add jdevalk/skills --skill astro-seo -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/jdevalk/skills/tree/HEAD/astro-seo/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- audit metadata across Astro pages
- find gaps in JSON-LD entities and references
- check sitemap setup and its robots.txt reference
- create or edit files to address SEO findings
- check rendered images for alt attributes

## Example prompts
- Audit my Astro project’s SEO setup and list specific findings.
- Review the page metadata and JSON-LD, then fix the issues you find.
- Check the sitemap and robots.txt setup, apply needed fixes, and run the build.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: astro-seo
description: >
  Audits and improves SEO for Astro sites. Use when the user asks to audit,
  set up, or improve SEO on an Astro site, or mentions head metadata,
  structured data, JSON-LD, sitemaps, IndexNow, Open Graph images, schema
  endpoints, NLWeb, hreflang, or search engine indexing in an Astro project.
  Produces drop-in code routed through `@jdevalk/astro-seo-graph` and chains
  into `metadata-check` for generated SEO strings.
---

# Astro SEO

Audits and improves the SEO setup of an Astro site against the full stack described in [Astro SEO: the definitive guide](https://joost.blog/astro-seo-complete-guide/). The skill covers nine areas — technical foundation, structured data, content, site structure, performance, sitemaps and indexing, agent discovery, redirects, and analytics — and produces drop-in code for anything missing or weak.

The opinionated spine of this skill is [`@jdevalk/astro-seo-graph`](https://github.com/jdevalk/seo-graph). Most of the fixes route through it. If the project doesn't use it yet, installing it is the first recommendation.

**Code recipes live in `AGENTS.md`** — read it when you need to implement a specific fix. This file has the workflow and audit checklist.

## Workflow

1. **Detect the project** — confirm this is an Astro site and understand its shape.
2. **Audit** — score nine categories and produce actionable findings.
3. **Improve** — generate or modify files to close the gaps. Recipes are in `AGENTS.md`.
4. **Metadata pass** — invoke `metadata-check` on every short string the skill generated (titles, descriptions, schema `description` fields, FAQ answers, frontmatter excerpts).
5. **Verify** — run the build, check validations pass, remind the user about non-file tasks (Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools, IndexNow key verification).

---

## Phase 0: Detect the project

Confirm the basics before auditing:

- `astro.config.mjs` / `astro.config.ts` exists.
- `package.json` has `astro` as a dependency.
- **`site:` is set in `astro.config`** — canonicals, sitemaps, and OG image URLs all derive from this. If it's missing, empty, or `http://localhost`, flag it as a blocking issue before anything else. This is the single most common misconfiguration.
- Content collections in `src/content/` (or legacy `src/pages/` markdown).
- **Deployment target** — read `package.json`, `vercel.json`, `netlify.toml`, `wrangler.toml`, or `public/_headers` to determine the host. This drives redirect and header syntax in Phase 2.
- **Is `@jdevalk/astro-seo-graph` already installed?** If yes, record the version and which features are wired (grep for `<Seo`, `seoGraph(`, `createSchemaEndpoint`, `createSchemaMap`, `FuzzyRedirect`, `createIndexNowKeyRoute`, `createMarkdownEndpoint`, `createApiCatalog`, `gitLastmod`). **Check the installed version against the latest on npm** with `npm view @jdevalk/astro-seo-graph version`. If the project is behind, recommend an upgrade in Phase 2 before auditing feature gaps — the package ships new defaults and fixes regularly, and an outdated version is a plausible cause for any audit finding. Phase 2 branches on this.
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