open-seo-mcp-skills

open-seo-mcp-skills is a set of MIT-licensed SEO skills for Claude: site audits, keyword research, rank tracking, competitor gaps, backlinks, and AI-visibility checks. The pitch that sets it apart is real. Instead of estimating your rankings from scraped search results, it reads your actual Google Search Console, GA4, and Ads data, so the numbers are yours, not a guess.

Here is the catch, and it is the whole thing. The skills are free, but they run through the Ryze MCP connector, a commercial hosted service you sign into and connect your Search Console, Analytics, and ad accounts to. DataForSEO is wired in behind it for the data Google will not hand over. So "free and open source" describes the skill files. The data pipeline is a third party you are granting access to your analytics.

If you already live in Claude and want SEO analysis on your real data without paying for Semrush, this is a useful setup, and the honesty about the DataForSEO markup that hosted competitors hide is refreshing. Just go in clear-eyed: you are connecting your accounts to Ryze, not running a self-contained tool. If you will not grant that access, the skills alone do not do much.