geo-optimizer-skill

The open-source Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) & Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) toolkit.

Audit, optimize, and track whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Google AI Overviews can crawl, understand, and cite your website.

One command scores your site 0–100 on AI-search readiness, tells you exactly what to fix, and checks whether AI engines actually cite you.

Quick Start · Live Demo · Pricing · Sign Up · Documentation · Changelog

16 CLI commands · 8 scoring categories · 47 research-backed methods · 7 output formats · 1,720 tests · academic foundation (KDD 2024, ICLR 2026) · runs in CI/CD, as a Python library, an MCP server, or an Astro integration

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What is GEO Optimizer?

GEO Optimizer is a free, open-source command-line tool (and Python library, MCP server, and Astro integration) that measures how visible your website is to AI answer engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Claude — and tells you how to get cited by them.

This discipline goes by several names; this tool covers all of them: Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), AI SEO, LLM SEO, AI Search Optimization, and AI visibility / LLM visibility monitoring. If you're searching for an "open-source AEO tool", a "tool to check if ChatGPT cites my website", or an "llms.txt checker" — that's this.

# Zero install — score any site against 8 AI-readiness categories
uvx --from geo-optimizer-skill geo audit --url https://yoursite.com

It scores your site against 47 research-backed methods (Princeton KDD 2024, AutoGEO ICLR 2026) and generates the exact fixes — robots.txt bot rules, llms.txt, JSON-LD schema, and the content patterns models quote.

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Why AI visibility matters in 2026

AI search engines give one synthesized answer and cite a handful of sources. If your site isn't one of them, you're invisible — even if you rank #1 on Google.

User asks ChatGPT: "What's the best mortgage calculator?"

ChatGPT: "According to [Competitor.com], the formula is..."
          ↑ They get cited. You don't.

• ChatGPT alone serves 900M weekly users — a growing share of sessions that used to be Google searches.
• 28.3% of ChatGPT's most-cited pages have zero organic visibility on Google (Ahrefs) — AI engines reward different signals than classic SEO.
• Proper JSON-LD schema lifts LLM extraction accuracy from 16% to 54% (Semrush test on GPT-4).
• 844,000+ sites already ship an llms.txt. Yours?

Does AI actually cite your brand? Ask it directly.

geo citations queries real answer engines with the questions your customers ask, then reports whether your brand is mentioned and your domain is cited as a source — and which competitors get cited instead of you.

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AEO / GEO is not traditional SEO

SEO and AEO/GEO answer different questions:

• SEO optimizes for ranking and clicks in traditional search result pages — crawlability, backlinks, keyword signals.
• AEO / GEO measures whether an AI answer engine can read, parse, understand, and cite your content when generating a response.
• A site can rank well on Google and still be largely opaque to AI systems — missing structured data, no llms.txt, bot access blocked, thin factual density.

GEO Optimizer focuses on the technical and structural signals AI answer engines use: robots.txt bot permissions, llms.txt presence and depth, JSON-LD schema richness, brand entity coherence, multi-page topical authority, and content citability across 47 methods. These complement traditional SEO rather than replacing it.

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Try it online

Free audit	geoready.dev — single-URL GEO score, no account required
Free tools	llms.txt generator — build a starter llms.txt from your sitemap
Pricing	geoready.dev/pricing — plans and feature comparison
Sign up	app.geoready.dev/signup — Pro/Studio/Agency available now

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Open-source vs GeoReady Platform

	GEO Optimizer CLI	GeoReady.dev Free	GeoReady Pro / Studio / Agency
License / access	MIT, open-source	Free, no account	Self-serve — sign up
Core use	Local audit engine, CI/CD integration, JSON output	Web audit, score preview, educational pages	Monitoring, score history, regression alerts, agency reporting
Target	Developers, automation	Developers, SEO specialists	Ongoing clients, multi-site portfolios
Pricing	Free forever	Free forever	From $19/month — see geoready.dev/pricing

The CLI and web audit remain MIT-licensed and free. The GeoReady platform adds server-side continuity — monitoring, history, and team features — that a local CLI cannot provide on its own.

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Quick Start

pip install geo-optimizer-skill

No install? One-shot audit with uv:

uvx --from geo-optimizer-skill geo audit --url https://yoursite.com

# Audit any site — get a score 0-100 with actionable recommendations
geo audit --url https://yoursite.com

# Audit a full sitemap and surface weakest pages first
geo audit --sitemap https://yoursite.com/sitemap.xml --max-urls 25

# Compare before/after versions of a page
geo diff --before https://yoursite.com/page-old --after https://yoursite.com/page-new

# Save history and detect regressions over time
geo audit --url https://yoursite.com --save-history --regression

# Show the saved trend for a site
geo history --url https://yoursite.com

# What changed since the last snapshot? (severity + category deltas; CI: --fail-on warning)
geo drift --url https://yoursite.com

# Passive AI visibility snapshot for a domain
geo monitor --domain yoursite.com

# Ask real AI engines: is my brand mentioned? Is my domain cited as a source?
# BYO API key — PERPLEXITY_API_KEY recommended (real web citations)
geo citations --brand "YourBrand" --domain yoursite.com --topic "your product category"

# Save or query archived AI answer snapshots
geo snapshots --query "best GEO tool" --from 2026-03-01 --to 2026-03-30

# Score citation quality inside an archived answer snapshot
geo snapshots --quality --snapshot-id 12 --target-domain yoursite.com

# Run recurring monitoring and generate an HTML trend report
geo track --url https://yoursite.com --report --output ./geo-track-report.html

# Auto-generate all missing files (robots.txt, llms.txt, schema, meta)
geo fix --url https://yoursite.com --apply

# Generate llms.txt from sitemap
geo llms --base-url https://yoursite.com --output ./public/llms.txt

# Generate JSON-LD schema
geo schema --type faq --url https://yoursite.com

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What it checks

Area	Points	What GEO Optimizer looks for
Robots.txt	/18	27 AI bots across 3 tiers (training, search, user). Citation bots explicitly allowed?
llms.txt	/18	Present, has H1 + blockquote, sections, links, depth. Companion llms-full.txt?
Schema JSON-LD	/16	WebSite, Organization, FAQPage, Article. Schema richness (5+ attributes)?
Meta Tags	/14	Title, description, canonical, Open Graph complete?
Content	/12	H1, statistics, external citations, heading hierarchy, lists/tables, front-loading?
Brand & Entity	/10	Brand name coherence, Knowledge Graph links (Wikipedia/Wikidata/LinkedIn/Crunchbase), about page, geo signals, topic authority
Signals	/6	<html lang>, RSS/Atom feed, dateModified freshness?
AI Discovery	/6	.well-known/ai.txt, /ai/summary.json, /ai/faq.json, /ai/service.json?

Score bands: 86-100 Excellent · 68-85 Good · 36-67 Foundation · 0-35 Critical

Bonus checks (informational, do not affect score):

Check	What it detects
CDN Crawler Access	Does Cloudflare/Akamai/Vercel block GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot?
JS Rendering	Is content accessible without JavaScript? SPA framework detection
WebMCP Readiness	Chrome WebMCP support: registerTool(), toolname attributes, potentialAction schema
Negative Signals	8 anti-citation signals: CTA overload, popups, thin content, keyword stuffing, missing author, boilerplate ratio
Prompt Injection Detection	8 manipulation patterns: hidden text, invisible Unicode, LLM instructions, HTML comment injection, monochrome text, micro-font, data-attr injection, aria-hidden abuse
Trust Stack Score	5-layer trust aggregation (Technical, Identity, Social, Academic, Consistency) — composite grade A-F
RAG Chunk Readiness	Content segmentation for RAG retrieval: section word counts, definition openings, heading boundaries, anchor sentences 🆕 v4.7
Content Decay Prediction	Detects temporal, statistical, version, event, and price decay patterns — evergreen score 0-100 🆕 v4.7
Platform Citation Profile	Per-platform readiness scores for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI 🆕 v4.7
Multimodal Readiness	Image alt coverage, captions, VideoObject/AudioObject schema, subtitle tracks, transcripts — the text scaffolding multimodal engines (Gemini, GPT-4o) need 🆕

Plus a separate Citability Score (0-100) measuring content quality across 47 methods: Quotation +41% · Statistics +33% · Fluency +29% · Cite Sources +27% · and 43 more.

Additional tools

geo coherence --sitemap https://example.com/sitemap.xml  # Cross-page terminology consistency
geo logs --file access.log                                # AI Crawler Activity — crawler evidence from user-agent logs
geo access --url https://example.com                      # Agent Access Audit — browser vs AI bot access simulation
geo citations --brand "Acme" --domain acme.com            # AI Citation Check — are you cited by answer engines? (BYO key)
geo authority --sitemap https://example.com/sitemap.xml   # Topic Authority — multi-page entity coverage, clusters, pillars
geo drift --url https://example.com                        # Semantic Drift — what changed since the last snapshot
geo perception --url https://example.com                  # AI Perception Snapshot — what an AI would extract from the page

Topic authority — AI engines map entities and multi-page coverage, not single pages. geo authority clusters your site by topic and scores depth, interlinking, and pillar pages:

GEO Optimizer checks whether websites can be crawled, understood, cited, and monitored by AI answer engines:

• Crawled — robots.txt, CDN access, AI-bot reachability
• Understood — schema, llms.txt, content structure
• Cited — citability signals across 47 research-backed methods
• Monitored — geo logs (crawler evidence) and geo access (access simulation)

Note on wording: AI Crawler Activity reports crawler evidence from server-log user-agents. Agent Access Audit reports citation readiness (whether bots can reach and parse the page). For actual answer-engine checking — "does the AI mention my brand and cite my domain?" — use geo citations with your own API key (Perplexity Sonar returns the real source URLs; OpenAI/Anthropic/Groq reveal parametric brand knowledge).

Optional LLM-powered analysis (pip install geo-optimizer-skill[llm]): brand sentiment, citation attribution, multi-turn persistence, cross-platform citation map, prompt library.

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Output formats

geo audit --url https://example.com --format text     # Human-readable (default)
geo audit --url https://example.com --format json      # Machine-readable
geo audit --sitemap https://example.com/sitemap.xml    # Batch sitemap audit (text)
geo audit --sitemap https://example.com/sitemap.xml --format json  # Batch sitemap audit (JSON)
geo audit --url https://example.com --format rich      # Colored terminal
geo audit --url https://example.com --format html      # Self-contained report
geo audit --url https://example.com --format sarif     # GitHub Code Scanning
geo audit --url https://example.com --format junit     # Jenkins, GitLab CI
geo audit --url https://example.com --format github    # GitHub Actions annotations
geo monitor --domain example.com                       # Passive AI visibility readiness
geo snapshots --query "best GEO tool"                 # Saved AI answer archive
geo snapshots --quality --snapshot-id 12              # Citation quality tiers for a saved answer
geo history --url https://example.com                  # Saved score trend
geo track --url https://example.com --report           # Monitoring HTML report

The JSON output format is intended to remain stable across minor versions and acts as the machine-readable integration contract for the GeoReady platform.

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CI/CD Integration — fail the build when AI-readiness drops

Treat AI visibility like test coverage: gate every deploy on it. The GitHub Action scores your site, fails the build below a threshold, and uploads results to the Security tab.

# .github/workflows/geo.yml
- uses: Auriti-Labs/geo-optimizer-skill@v4.16.0
  with:
    url: https://yoursite.com
    min-score: 70        # Fail the build if the GEO score drops below 70
    format: sarif        # Upload findings to the GitHub Security tab

Works with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, and any CI that runs Python. For longitudinal checks, persist snapshots and fail on regression or semantic drift:

geo audit --url https://yoursite.com --save-history --regression
geo drift --url https://yoursite.com --fail-on warning   # exit non-zero if signals degraded

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MCP Server

Use GEO Optimizer from Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, or any MCP client:

pip install geo-optimizer-skill[mcp]
claude mcp add geo-optimizer -- geo-mcp

Then ask: "audit my site and fix what's missing"

Tool	Purpose
geo_audit	Full audit with score + recommendations
geo_fix	Generate fix files
geo_llms_generate	Generate llms.txt
geo_citability	Content citability analysis (47 methods)
geo_schema_validate	Validate JSON-LD
geo_compare	Compare multiple sites
geo_gap_analysis	Explain the gap between two sites and prioritize fixes
geo_ai_discovery	Check AI discovery endpoints
geo_check_bots	Check bot access via robots.txt
geo_trust_score	5-layer trust signal aggregation
geo_negative_signals	8 anti-citation signal detection
geo_factual_accuracy	Audit unsourced claims, contradictions, and broken citations

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Use as AI Context

Load the right file into your AI assistant for GEO expertise:

Platform	File
Claude Projects	ai-context/claude-project.md
ChatGPT Custom GPT	ai-context/chatgpt-custom-gpt.md
Cursor	ai-context/cursor.mdc
Windsurf	ai-context/windsurf.md
Kiro	ai-context/kiro-steering.md

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Internal Skill System

The repository now includes a structured internal skill catalog for maintainers at src/geo_optimizer/skills/catalog/ plus validation rules and examples. See docs/skill-system.md for the v1 architecture.

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Python API

from geo_optimizer import audit

result = audit("https://example.com")
print(result.score)                      # 85
print(result.band)                       # "good"
print(result.citability.total_score)     # 72
print(result.score_breakdown)            # {"robots": 18, "llms": 14, ...}
print(result.recommendations)            # ["Add FAQPage schema..."]

Async variant:

from geo_optimizer import audit_async
result = await audit_async("https://example.com")

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Show your GEO score

Add a live GEO score badge to your README — like a coverage badge, but for AI visibility:

[![GEO Score](https://geoready.dev/badge?url=https://yoursite.com)](https://geoready.dev?utm_source=badge)

HTML variant for docs sites:

<a href="https://geoready.dev?utm_source=badge"><img src="https://geoready.dev/badge?url=https://yoursite.com" alt="GEO Score"></a>

Colors: 86-100 green · 68-85 cyan · 36-67 yellow · 0-35 red. Re-audited and cached hourly — improve your site, watch the badge change. No account needed.

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Astro Integration

Make an Astro site GEO-ready at build time — generates llms.txt, /.well-known/ai.txt, and /ai/summary.json from your built routes (never overwrites hand-curated files):

// astro.config.mjs
import geoReady from 'astro-geoready';
export default defineConfig({
  site: 'https://yoursite.com',
  integrations: [geoReady({ siteName: 'Your Site' })],
});

See integrations/astro-geoready/ — geoready.dev itself builds with it.

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Plugin System

Extend the audit with custom checks via entry points:

[project.entry-points."geo_optimizer.checks"]
my_check = "mypackage:MyCheck"

See examples/example_plugin.py for a working example.

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Research Foundation

Paper	Venue	Key Finding
GEO: Generative Engine Optimization	KDD 2024	9 methods tested on 10k queries. Cite Sources: +115%, Statistics: +40%
AutoGEO	ICLR 2026	Automatic rule extraction. +50.99% over Princeton baseline
C-SEO Bench	2025	Most content manipulation is ineffective. Infrastructure matters most

We focus on technical infrastructure (robots.txt, llms.txt, schema, meta) over content rewriting. The research confirms: if crawlers can't find and parse your content, prose optimization doesn't matter.

GEO Optimizer translates these findings into technical and content-level signals that can be operationally audited and tracked over time.

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Roadmap

This project follows a deliberate release cadence — focused waves, not noisy patches.

Version	Window	Codename	Status
v4.10.0	Apr 2026	Veil	Shipped
v4.11.0	May 2026	Static	Shipped
v4.12.0	May 2026	Ledger	Shipped
v4.13.0	Jun 2026	Echo	Shipped
v4.14.0	Jun 2026	Quiet Glass	Shipped
v4.15.0	Jul 2026	Aperture	Shipped
v4.16.0	Aug 2026	Ground Truth	Shipped
v4.17.0-rc1	Jan 2027	Threshold	Planned
v4.17.0-rc2 / v4.18.0	Mar 2027	Pale Signal	Planned
v5.0.0	May 2027	Black Archive	Exploring

Next focus areas: signal architecture, retrieval surface analysis, scoring recalibration, and structural pattern recognition. The v5.0 cycle represents a broader architectural evolution.

Full release calendar, philosophy, and direction → docs/ROADMAP.md

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FAQ

What is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)? AEO is the practice of structuring your website so AI answer engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Claude — can find, understand, and cite it as the direct answer to a user's question. It is also called Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), AI SEO, LLM SEO, or AI Search Optimization. GEO Optimizer audits and scores your site for all of it.

How do I check if ChatGPT or Perplexity cites my website? Run geo citations --brand "Your Brand" --domain yoursite.com with a Perplexity or OpenAI API key. It asks the engine customer-style questions and reports whether your brand is mentioned, whether your domain is cited as a source, and which competitors are cited instead. No account needed for the free web version.

Is this an llms.txt generator and checker? Yes. geo llms generates an llms.txt from your sitemap, the audit scores its presence and depth, and the Astro integration creates one at build time. There's also a free online llms.txt generator.

Is it free and open source? Yes — MIT licensed, free forever via pip install geo-optimizer-skill or uvx. The hosted GeoReady platform adds continuous monitoring, score history, citation tracking, and team features on top of the same engine.

Which AI engines does it cover? ChatGPT (GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot), Perplexity (PerplexityBot), Claude (ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot), Google (Googlebot, Google-Extended, Gemini), plus 27 AI bots total and per-platform readiness profiles for ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.

How is it different from a traditional SEO tool? Traditional SEO tools optimize for Google rankings and backlinks. GEO Optimizer measures AI citation readiness — whether answer engines can crawl, parse, and quote your content — using signals (llms.txt, AI-bot access, schema richness, citability, topical authority) that classic SEO ignores.

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Security

All URL inputs are validated against private IP ranges (RFC 1918, loopback, link-local, cloud metadata) with DNS pinning before any request. See SECURITY.md for reporting vulnerabilities.

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Contributing

git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/geo-optimizer-skill.git
cd geo-optimizer-skill && pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest tests/ -v   # 1720 tests, all mocked

Bug reports · Feature requests · CONTRIBUTING.md

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