> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.fixaeo.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Templates

> Start an agent from a ready-made recipe or a prebuilt template instead of a blank canvas.

The **Templates** tab in the Agents area is a gallery of ready-made agents you can start from. Instead of building a job step by step, you pick one that already does close to what you want, then adjust it.

Templates are part of the Agents area, which is **Beta**. Everything an agent produces is a draft that waits for your review, and nothing is published to your site, sent, or written anywhere external on its own. Browsing this gallery runs nothing at all.

<Note>
  Building, browsing, and saving are broadly available. **Running** an agent needs an active paid plan. When you try to start one without a plan, FixAEO says so: *"An active paid plan is required to start a workflow. Your saved results remain available."* See [Plans and limits](/plans-and-limits).
</Note>

## Two kinds of template

The gallery holds two things. Both open with a **Use template** button, but they lead to different places.

### Guided recipes

Five guided recipes are live today. Each one is a fixed set of steps FixAEO wrote for a common job:

* **Get content recommendations** — you have a published page and want to know what to improve. It returns a source-linked assessment and a prioritized list of edits.
* **Refresh an existing page** — turn reviewed recommendations into a new draft. You get a before-and-after edit list plus a refreshed draft.
* **Create a brief and first draft** — you're starting a new article and have research sources to use. It produces an editable brief, then a sourced draft.
* **Improve an under-cited page** — let FixAEO pick one of your owned pages that needs citation help, then show its evidence and recommended fixes.
* **Track weekly brand health** — a repeatable week-over-week visibility and citation report, saved as a comparison of two complete weeks of captured answers.

On a recipe, **Use template** opens a short run setup form: pick the brand and fill in a few inputs, such as a page URL or a topic. You can also choose **View workflow** first to preview the steps before you commit to a run.

### Prebuilt agent templates

Alongside the recipes, FixAEO offers prebuilt multi-step **agent templates** — ready-made starting points across the same categories. On one of these, **Use template** drops a copy into the visual builder so you can rename steps, change inputs, and edit the flow before you publish and run it. Think of a recipe as run-it-now and an agent template as edit-then-run.

<Note>
  The agent-template gallery is rolling out gradually, so some accounts see only the five guided recipes for now. New templates appear here as they're published.
</Note>

## Browsing the gallery

Everything sits in one grid, with a few ways to narrow it down.

* **Category chips** across the top: **All**, **Featured**, and the categories that have templates — Content optimization, Content creation, Research, Report, and Outreach. The **Featured** row highlights a few. A category with nothing in it doesn't show.
* **Search templates** — a search box that filters by name, description, and tags as you type.
* **Template details** — selecting any card opens a details dialog with the **Creator**, the **Category**, and a short **Workflow** summary, so you can read what a template does before you use it.

Built-in templates are made by FixAEO; the details dialog names the creator for each one. Opening a card or reading its details never starts a run.

## Using a template

<Steps>
  <Step title="Find one that fits">
    Filter by category, search by keyword, or scan the Featured row. Open a card to read its details.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Preview or use it">
    On a guided recipe, choose **View workflow** to see the steps, or **Use template** to open the run setup form. On a prebuilt agent template, **Use template** opens the visual builder with an editable copy.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Set it up and run">
    Fill in the run inputs (recipe) or adjust the steps and publish (agent template). Running needs a paid plan.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Review before anything is used">
    A recipe run pauses for you to check the plan before it generates, and every agent stops at a review step before its output is used. You approve, edit, or reject. See [Resources and review](/agents/resources).
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Warning>
  A template is a starting point, not a finished answer. Read the evidence an agent cites and review its output before you act on it. Nothing leaves FixAEO or goes live without your approval.
</Warning>

## Submit a template

You can share one of your own saved agents with the community gallery. Use **Submit a template**, pick a custom agent you've saved, choose a category, and write a short public description.

FixAEO reviews the submission before it can appear publicly. What's submitted is a snapshot of the agent's steps — your credentials, run data, and private resource contents are never included. Later edits to your agent don't change a submission you've already sent.

<Tip>
  Want to build from nothing instead? The [Agents](/agents) page covers the visual builder and the plain-language builder, where you describe the job and FixAEO proposes the steps.
</Tip>

## Related

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card icon="robot" title="Agents" href="/agents">
    Build an agent from scratch, visually or by describing it in plain language.
  </Card>

  <Card icon="sparkles" title="Skills" href="/agents/skills">
    Reusable instructions you attach to an agent so it works the way you want.
  </Card>

  <Card icon="calendar" title="Scheduling and automation" href="/agents/automation">
    Run a template on a schedule, from a webhook, or across a batch of rows.
  </Card>

  <Card icon="shield-check" title="Resources and review" href="/agents/resources">
    The building blocks agents draw on, and the approval step before anything is used.
  </Card>

  <Card icon="credit-card" title="Plans and limits" href="/plans-and-limits">
    Which plans can run agents, and the caps on runs.
  </Card>

  <Card icon="comments" title="AI Marketer" href="/ai-marketer">
    The chat assistant that answers from your data and drafts work to review.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>
