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The current version of AEOForged is v2.2 (August 2026) — Citation Board & Monitoring Ownership. This page records every release in reverse-chronological order, tagged New, Improved, or Fixed.
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AEOForged current version: v2.2 (Citation Board & Monitoring Ownership, August 2026). Total tools: 30 MCP/API tools. Latest additions: Citation Board, page-tier monitoring ownership, Fix Programme, agent-first self-serve, and Original Research Engine (aeo_study).
| Version | Release | Date | Key features |
|---|---|---|---|
| v2.2 | Citation Board & Monitoring Ownership | August 2026 | Citation Board, page-tier monitoring accuracy, client + agent self-serve ownership, retainer agent loops |
| v2.1 | Agent-First Packages & Fix Programme | July–August 2026 | Fix Programme, agent-first self-serve, ask_human decisions, free-audit & task-pack skills |
| v2.0 | Research Engine, Sector Intel & Honest Measurement | July 2026 | Original Research Engine (aeo_study), sector intel, Authority Profile, AI-Ready coverage, local/geo, grounding |
| v1.9 | Launch Hardening | June 2026 | Launch hardening: 30 tools, consolidated verbs, async parity, deterministic factcheck, citation honesty |
| v1.8 | Smarter Free Audits + Transparent Audit Depth | June 2026 | Smarter free audits (value-ranked coverage) + transparent credit-metered full-site depth |
| v1.7 | Agency Tools + Export Foundation | June 2026 | Agency tools + export: client-site cap, org-scoped reads, CSV/PDF/JSON export, in-app AI Visibility |
| v1.6 | Query-First AI Visibility & Citation Monitoring | June 2026 | Query-first AI citation tracking, multi-engine monitoring, gap-driven content actions |
| v1.5 | Competitive Edge Suite | May 2026 | AI crawlability audit, llms.txt generator, Share of Voice tracker (25 tools total) |
| v1.2 | Composite Workflow Tools | May 2026 | Four composite workflow tools (audit-improve, strategy, health, quality-gate) |
| v1.1 | Post-Publish Monitoring & Intelligence Platform | May 2026 | Post-publish citation monitoring across 3 engines, alerts, 8-dimension scoring |
| v1.0 | Launch | May 2026 | Public launch — 19-tool content intelligence platform via REST, MCP, and web app |
The client Monitoring tab is now a citation board: questions the client chose, turning green only on a measured page citation. Clients and their agents own the board; room rates, trend, and uptime match that same page-tier honesty. Paid retainers open an agent loop after checkout — setup, monthly strategy delivery, and content lifecycle — without inventing citation guarantees.
Citation Board in the client room — branded and goal lanes, empty capacity slots, milestones over filled slots only, soft “cited instead” competitors on non-green rowsClient + agent ownership of tracked questions — room Citation Board APIs and REST prompt create/update/deactivate (history kept; removals free a slot)Self-serve monitoring controls — Control prompts, optional location bind, goal-lane revenue priority by default, measured competitor accept/dismiss, sector query import for agentsPage vs link estimand — room Monitoring uses page citations for board green, rates, trend, and uptime pips so surfaces cannot disagreeRetainer agent surfaces — post-pay setup, Connect-your-agent for paid Monitor/Grow/Dominate, content lifecycle and content-picks APIs for handoff agents, sector-review confirm for DominateRoom Articles workspace — list/read/save/score and Ready status for programme drafts; content menu tightened for study-backed secondary picksAgent trust panel — read / propose / ship_live permissions so GitHub PRs stay review-gated and CMS apply is explicitPurchases ledger on the client Home tab — stacked package history in one placeMonitoring accuracy — never-checked prompts prioritized in the check loop; Gemini engine strip counts brand/domain mentions while board green stays page-onlyBoard change limit — rolling cap on slot composition changes; trend charts label windows that include a revision as directional onlyPackage entitlement unlocks — Dominate tabs and deliverables follow the active package, not a stale single SKUAgent readiness probes — deeper MCP / Link / RateLimit checks for live operability reportingPublic site — four-layer homepage and pricing refresh; staff login separated from marketing chromeClients connect their own agent with an account API key; Fix Programme delivers a page-first fix kit (developer sheet + agent handoff) without a CMS connection. Free-audit and self-serve skills, human decision gates, and authed task packs make the agent loop discoverable from bootstrap — craft over score on live marketing pages.
Fix Programme — page-first work surface after payment: Pages tab, per-page developer sheets, agent handoff self-mint, verify-page loop, optional depth coverage for unpaid deep pagesAgent-first self-serve — dual-door journey (/for-agents and /start), free-audit skill (aeoforge-free-audit), ongoing self-serve skill (aeoforge-selfserve), Fix Programme skill (aeoforge-fix)aeo_ask_human — durable decision gate (REST /api/v1/decisions + MCP); agents poll until a human answers; wait means stopAgent task packs — bootstrap next_task routing with sticky active_task; content, authority, visibility, study, crawler-logs, and monthly retainer packsaeo_feedback — agent feedback channel (optional auth) for product signals; never a remote control channelWorld-class Fix Programme handoff contract — page-first claim → apply → verify-page → document_fix with craft-over-score rules on live pagesScore bar on submit-for-review — below-bar submissions rejected unless a human authorizes an explicit low-score acknowledgementFoundation Sprint delivery — measured page scope and a published score bar before Send; Site module unlock follows the same barClient packages renamed for clarity — Monitor, Grow, Dominate, plus attachable Site module and Fix Programme (storefront and room copy)Goal-first My packages in the room — eligibility locks, profile confirm readiness floor, and honest wait states for connected work capacityFree audit path — agents may help edit the brand profile; only a human Confirm plus the trigger phrase starts the audit; hard stop at wait_paymentMilestone-only Updates in the client room — quieter timeline focused on what changed for the clientAEOForge becomes a measurement and research platform: original studies clients can publish, sector intelligence reports, a seven-category Authority Profile, AI-Ready answer coverage, and local/geo as a first-class dimension. Grounding, branded vs generic citation rates, and Wilson confidence intervals keep every public number honest.
aeo_study — Original Research Engine (bench, engine, first-party, and comparison lanes): design → measured run → draft → register own-domain article/methodology/dataset; depth floors refuse thin samplesSector Intelligence Reports — /intel storefront, measured engine sweeps with confidence intervals, content-war attribution, buyer addendum on tokened copiesAuthority Profile — seven-category diagnostic (entity, people, topical, primary evidence, distribution, offsite, AI recognition) with archetype and binding constraint; strategy reports integrate itAI-Ready Standard + Answer Coverage — capability pillars plus a per-query map of covered / weak / uncovered / offsite (measured citations first)Local/geo dimension — location-bound tracked queries, per-location scoreboard slices (never blended with global), LocalBusiness scoring, NAP scan via aeo_authorityaeo_citation_sources — which off-site sources real engines cite for tracked queries (Reddit, YouTube, reviews, listicles); opportunities where the client is absentaeo_crawler_logs — parse an access-log export against the AI bot registry; sample-scoped “never seen” honestyGA4 AI-referral attribution — join cited pages to AI-referrer sessions (directional correlation, not causation)Client engagement room — tokenized multi-tab portal (Home, Brand profile, Report, Monitoring, Articles, Socials, Strategy) with Stripe checkout and email railDiagnostic funnel (/start) — URL + email → brand profile build → package recommendation → auto-provisioned roomProduct dossier on the brand profile — structured own-domain product facts for competitive writing, with required limitationsMonthly strategy reports — Visibility Strategy and Citation Strategy (Dominate) composed from measured inputs; publishable to the client roomCitation Programme delivery — ranked content menu from measured gaps, article skeleton validation, social deployment plan, mark-as-posted with measured asset outcomesGrounding gate deepened — research or verified primary sources required at finished boundaries (write, final save, submit-for-review); loud coaching on ordinary savesBranded vs generic citation split — headline rates never blended; share of voice computed on generic queries when a class map existsCapability scorecard on complete audits — 21 deterministic capabilities; Foundation and Site work quote from capability lines, not ticket countsBrand profile foundation — durable suppressions, measured site facts and voice mechanics, readiness floor before ConfirmCompetitor registry — sector roster ∪ profile ∪ extras, ranked by measured citation evidenceStudy design honesty — measured relevance, adversarial critic, bounded claim-only revise loop; methodology is code-authored; negatives are dataPage-type-aware AEO scoring — weights and detectors adapt for docs, commercial, and location pages30 tools across REST and MCP. Consolidated verbs (create, improve, package, diagnose, factcheck, visibility) compose multiple tools behind a single intent-driven call. Long-running tools (diagnose, visibility, research) run async by default with progress polling. Deterministic factcheck replaces LLM-based verification for statistical claims. Citation honesty tightened: measured page-tier citations kept separate from Brave-search proxy signals.
Consolidated verbs — create, improve, package, diagnose, factcheck, visibility — each composing multiple granular tools behind a single intent-driven callaeo_factcheck — deterministic grounding check for statistical claims against research sources (free, no LLM, reproducible)aeo_diagnose — async-default site-wide audit with progress polling via GET /api/v1/tool-runs/{run_id}aeo_document_fix — capture Remediation Stories (problem + fix) for white-label client deliverables (free)aeo_import — import external articles into a workspace with baseline scoring (free)Async parity — diagnose, visibility, and research return 202 + poll_url by default; poll GET /api/v1/tool-runs/{run_id} for progressCitation honesty — measured page-tier citations kept strictly separate from Brave-search SOV proxyGrounding gate enforced — research required before finished boundaries; ungrounded saves return coaching warningsWriting quality measured as AI-tell density (deterministic) — advisory only, never affects AEO scoreThe free complete audit now spends its AI analysis on the pages that actually matter — your homepage plus your most valuable commercial and high-authority pages — and the rest get fast technical checks. Going deeper (every page) is a transparent, credit-metered upgrade with the price shown before you run it.
Smart free coverage — the free audit deep-analyzes discovered pages in value order (homepage, pricing/commercial, key templates, best-linked) instead of crawl orderFull AI audit toggle — analyse every page (up to 40) as a credit-metered upgrade; the credit estimate is shown before you commit and you're only charged for the pages actually analysedPer-tier AI Visibility query quotas — track more queries as you scale (each tracked query is re-checked across every AI engine on a schedule)Honest pricing language — audits are free for the pages that matter; deep full-site analysis is metered rather than advertised as unlimitedMake client sites the agency upgrade lever and ship a real export layer: org-scoped reads so any teammate can pull data, CSV across audits/monitoring/visibility, print-to-PDF, and a one-call per-client JSON archive.
Client-site cap — Solo plans manage 1 client site; Agency tiers unlock unlimited (enforced on client + onboarding creation, with an in-app upgrade prompt)GET /api/v1/projects — org/workspace-scoped article list; GET /api/v1/visibility/scoreboard and GET /api/v1/sov as Bearer-auth read APIsGET /api/v1/clients/[workspaceId]/export — single JSON archive per client (profile + latest snapshot + action items + tracked URLs + visibility), gated to AgencyOwner-only v1 reads (export, project read) are now org-scoped — teammates with an org API key can pull client dataReorient citation tracking around the queries that matter — measured citation share and competitors over time, with 'which page won it' as a drill-down — plus multi-engine monitoring and gap-driven content actions.
Query-gap content actions — gap queries become prioritised action items with a content briefThree new competitive-intelligence tools — AI crawlability auditing, llms.txt generation, and Share of Voice tracking — plus rebalanced citability scoring with enhanced extractability weighting.
aeo_crawlability — Check AI bot access: robots.txt for 11 AI bots, meta noai directives, X-Robots-Tag, llms.txt, sitemap, JS rendering (free)aeo_llms_txt — Generate spec-compliant llms.txt + llms-full.txt with semantic page grouping and deployment instructions (3cr)aeo_share_of_voice — Measure AI answer visibility: SOV %, coverage, avg position, gap keywords across 3 engines for up to 20 keywords vs 5 competitors (10cr)Citability scoring rebalanced — dimension weights adjusted for extractability-focused pagesFour new composite workflow tools that combine multiple pipeline steps into single API/MCP calls with automatic error handling and credit tracking. Available via both REST and MCP.
aeo_workflow_audit_improve — Audit a URL and conditionally generate a refresh plan if score is below threshold (5-13cr)aeo_workflow_strategy — Cluster keywords then research and outline top N pillar topics in one call (~44cr)aeo_workflow_health — Batch-audit up to 10 URLs with a sorted priority dashboard (5cr/URL)aeo_workflow_quality_gate — Score content against a target threshold with pass/fail and actionable fixes (free)Citation tracking across 3 AI answer engines, score decay detection, alert system, monitoring dashboard, and platform proof analytics.
aeo_track — MCP tool to register URLs for citation monitoringAlert system — first citation, lost citation, position changes, score decay, content stalePlatform visibility analytics — Brave-search visibility proxy by score bracket (labelled as a proxy, not confirmed AI citations)Public /proof page — measured answer-engine citation evidence, sample-size and niche-spread gated, reproducible from the evidence ledgerFeedback loop upgrade — per-section scoring, entity gap detection, competitor-aware suggestionsWorkflow UI — guided audit, strategy builder, health dashboard, quality gateThe first public release of AEOForged — a 19-tool content intelligence platform for AI answer engines, available via REST API, MCP, and web app.
aeo_research — Live web research with standard and deep modes, geo-targeting, and recency controlaeo_outline — Structured content outlines with snippet targets and word count planningaeo_write — Section-by-section drafting with verified citations and tone controlaeo_polish — Style pass with brand voice, changelog, and idempotencyaeo_verify — Fact verification with confidence tiersaeo_score — 7-dimension AEO scoring with extractability bonus (free)aeo_schema — JSON-LD generation for Article, FAQPage, and HowTo (free)aeo_extract — Featured snippet, knowledge panel, and PAA formatting with score breakdown (free)aeo_audit — Fetch any URL, score it, get a prioritized improvement plan with missing entities and schema opportunitiesaeo_compare — Head-to-head comparison across all 7 AEO dimensions with margin of victoryaeo_refresh — Fresh research with targeted section-by-section update plan and confidence levelsaeo_cluster — Keyword clustering with pillar/supporting hierarchy, content calendar, and hallucinated keyword detectionaeo_full_pipeline — End-to-end pipeline in draft (12cr) or publish (20cr) modePage last updated