Terms of use

Last updated: 10 July 2026

These terms cover the official seo command-line tool, library, MCP server, documentation, and seoskill.dev website.

Open source licence

The software is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. That licence controls your right to use, copy, modify, and distribute the code. Third-party packages keep their own licences.

These terms do not take away rights granted by an applicable open source licence. They cover use of the official website, documentation, name, Google integration, and distributed project services that sit outside the source-code licence.

Use the tool responsibly

You are responsible for the commands you run and the sites, accounts, and data you use with them. Only crawl, inspect, or analyse a site when you are allowed to do so. Follow applicable laws, access controls, robots policies, provider terms, and reasonable rate limits.

Do not use the project to gain unauthorised access, disrupt a service, evade a technical restriction, expose another person’s data, or carry out unlawful activity.

Google and other third-party services

Google Search Console and Google Analytics access is optional and read-only. Your use of Google APIs is also subject to Google’s terms and policies. Google can change API behaviour, quotas, scopes, or availability without notice to this project.

The software can request public websites, run browser tooling, and use package registries or operating system services. Those products are controlled by their respective operators. The project is not responsible for their content, availability, security, or data practices.

Reports are evidence, not a guarantee

SEO reports can be incomplete because websites change, providers retain or cap data, crawls stop, and search systems do not publish every ranking signal. The software is designed to show those limits, but bugs and incorrect findings are still possible.

Reports are general technical information. They do not promise rankings, traffic, revenue, indexing, rich results, AI citations, or any other outcome. Check important findings against the live site and the relevant provider before making a consequential change.

Your local data

You are responsible for protecting local tokens, configuration, caches, reports, exports, backups, and environment variables. Keep secrets out of public issues, logs, screenshots, repositories, and shared report files.

The privacy policy explains what the software stores and how to remove it.

Availability and changes

The project may change commands, reports, integrations, or documentation in a future release. A feature can be fixed, replaced, or removed when needed for security, correctness, provider policy, or maintainability.

There is no promise that the website, package registry, Google integration, or project support will always be available.

Warranty and liability

The software and website are provided without warranties or guarantees. The Apache License 2.0 contains the warranty and liability terms for the licensed software.

To the fullest extent allowed by applicable law, the project maintainer is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or business losses arising from use of the software, website, reports, or third-party services. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded.

Changes to these terms

The date at the top will be updated when these terms change. Earlier versions remain available in the public Git history. Continued use after a change means the new terms apply to later use.

Questions about these terms

Open an issue in the public GitHub repository. Do not include OAuth tokens, private reports, personal data, or other secrets in a public issue.