seo/reset-indexing clears Yoast’s indexation progress so the next pass starts from the beginning rather than resuming.
It discards progress, not content.
At a glance
| Ability | seo/reset-indexing |
| Toolset | Yoast SEO — toolset/yoast-seo |
| Group | Yoast SEO › Indexation |
| Requires | Yoast SEO, active on the site |
| Capability | manage_options |
| Safety | Writes data |
| Repeatable | Idempotent — running it twice leaves the same result |
| Ships in | AcrossAI Abilities Manager 0.0.34 and later |
How it works
Indexation remembers where it got to, which is right almost always and wrong after the underlying content has changed shape.
The two cases that call for a reset are a bulk import and a permalink change. Both leave existing indexables recording URLs that no longer exist, and a resumed pass will not revisit them — so the stale rows stay stale indefinitely.
After a reset the next pass rebuilds from the start, which on a large site is a substantial amount of background work. That is the cost, and it is worth paying only when the existing index is actually wrong.
Nothing is deleted from the site. The indexables themselves are rebuilt from the content, so a reset cannot lose anything that is not derived.
Idempotent.
Input
This ability takes no input.
What comes back
| Name | Type | What it is |
|---|---|---|
reset | boolean | Whether progress was cleared. |
success | boolean | Whether the call completed. |
message | string | A one-line summary of what happened, suitable for showing a human. |
error_code | string | Present only on failure — a stable machine-readable reason, such as a missing field, a wrong field type or an unmet confirmation. |
Example
Ask your assistant:
We changed the permalinks — make Yoast reindex from scratch.
It resolves to one call:
{
"ability": "seo/reset-indexing",
"parameters": {}
}Worth knowing
- Needed after a bulk import or a permalink change, not as routine maintenance.
- Nothing on the site is deleted — indexables are derived.
- A full rebuild is real background work on a large site.
- Idempotent.
Related abilities
- Request Indexation — ask the rebuild to start
- Get Indexation Status — watch it
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