SEO audit bureaucracy, packaged for the Codex CLI

What it does

Codex SEO is a skill-suite port of an existing Claude SEO toolkit, adapted to live inside OpenAI’s Codex CLI. It installs an orchestrator and two dozen TOML agent profiles into your local Codex environment, then routes natural-language requests through 26 specialist workflows—technical crawls, schema validation, Core Web Vitals, local/maps intelligence, GEO/AEO readiness, and backlink checks. The runners write shared cache artifacts and unified reports in Markdown, JSON, HTML, or PDF rather than leaving everything in a chat buffer.

The interesting bit

The project treats Codex less like a conversational assistant and more like a headless job scheduler. By pinning analysis to deterministic scripts and TOML agent definitions, it attempts to make LLM-driven SEO auditing repeatable—a problem usually solved by hoping the model remembers your site between sessions.

Key highlights

• 26 specialist workflows covering everything from hreflang to e-commerce product schema
• 24 TOML agent profiles that parallelize analysis slices through the orchestrator
• Deterministic runners that write to a shared .seo-cache and emit premium HTML/PDF reports
• Integrations with DataForSEO, Firecrawl, Google Search Console/PageSpeed, and Gemini image workflows
• Ported from claude-seo and synchronized to upstream, so it inherits a mature audit taxonomy

Verdict

Worth a look if you already live in the Codex CLI and need programmatic, repeatable SEO audits that survive beyond a single chat session. If you rely on no-code dashboards or do not use Codex, this is a non-starter.