Claude SEO v2.2.5: Reliability and Google Currency

Claude SEO v2.2.5 is a reliability and Google-currency release. It hardens installation, managed runtime behavior, JSON-LD validation, rendered-page analysis, and the official Google Search guidance used by the skill.

Highlights

• Packages deterministic data assets in both manual installers and adds the required lxml_html_clean dependency.
• Enforces the managed claude-seo run runtime across user-facing guidance.
• Traverses JSON-LD graphs safely, rejects malformed graph members, and reduces placeholder false positives.
• Restores bounded Chromium accessibility-tree capture and reports empty or partial Agent-UX results honestly.
• Preserves full render JSON by default, with explicit text bounds when requested.
• Refreshes Google Search guidance through August 25, 2026, including the August spam update, Preferred Sources, Search Console platform properties, merchant schema, review transparency, canonical timing, AMP, Lighthouse 13.4.1, and PageSpeed Insights Agentic Browsing.

Verification

• 439 tests passed locally.
• Post-merge GitHub CI passed on the tagged commit: test suite, Python syntax, and secret scan.
• Portability: 33 skills, 0 errors, 0 warnings.
• Consistency: 380 files, 0 errors, 0 warnings.
• pip-audit: no known vulnerabilities.
• Native Claude plugin validation and Bash installer syntax passed.

Known limitation

The PowerShell installer is covered by static regression tests, but a native Windows PowerShell smoke run was not available for this release.

See the v2.2.5 changelog and PR #261 for the complete change and verification record.