The Agent Library release
- Contextual AI launchers: one-click prompts now appear across wp-admin — Plugins, Media Library, Users, Comments, and the Dashboard — opening chat pre-seeded with a task-appropriate prompt. Editable before sending, never auto-sent, dismissible per user.
- DB-backed Agent Library: agents now install from a signed library — marketplace purchases are verified with Ed25519 publisher signatures before they can run.
- Declarative manifest agents: build agents with
agent.json+abilities.json— no PHP required, and community agents run sandboxed. - Autonomous work: scheduled tasks and event listeners let agents act on cron schedules or WordPress hooks, hands-free.
- Agents can fetch a human: the escalation tool ships in free; Pro fans requests out to Slack and email.
- WordPress Abilities, inbound & outbound: the WP Abilities tab splits into Inbound (what your agents expose to WordPress core AI) and Outbound (native hooks your agents can invoke).
- Per-agent MCP endpoints + cache tools: every agent gets its own MCP endpoint, plus a
manage_cachetool that detects and purges popular page-cache plugins. - Bigger library: 261 built-in tools, 26 skill packs, and 8 bundled agents — content-writer, seo-optimizer, site-health-sentinel, support-triage and more.
- Pro 3.0.0 alongside: channels (WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram, SMS, email and more), durable workflows, connectors, budget caps and the tamper-evident audit ledger.
User Assistant (Pro) & the connector wave
- User Assistant (Pro): a security-aware agent for managing the people on your site — reviews registrations, privileged and inactive accounts, failed-login signals, and contributor authorship. Account-security actions (lock account, force password reset) run only after your confirmation.
- Google Workspace connector: agents can list and create Calendar events, search and read Drive files, and read and append Docs — with credentials encrypted at rest.
- CRM connector: HubSpot and Salesforce behind one interface — agents can create, update and find contacts, open deals, and log notes.
- Signed outbound webhooks: POST signed JSON to Zapier, Make, n8n or any endpoint — every delivery carries an HMAC signature.
- Facebook Messenger & Instagram DM channels: talk to visitors on Meta's platforms through the same agent runtime.
Usage dashboard rebuilt
- Live cost trends: the Usage page is now a live React dashboard — summary cards, per-agent cost trend chart, and a breakdown table with a 7/30/60/90-day period selector.
- Also in 2.18: Pro now ships in 11 languages, and a dedicated Settings → License tab manages your key, activation status, and renewal in one place.
Observability & evaluation
- End-to-end run traces: every agent run is captured step-by-step — prompt, tool call, result, tokens, cost, and latency — so you can see exactly what happened and why.
- Eval harness: define test prompts and expected behaviours per agent, run them on demand, and see a pass/fail regression diff before rolling out a prompt or model change.
Governance & cost control
- Budget hard-caps: per site, agent, or user — spend is throttled, then stopped, so a runaway agent can never surprise you.
- Egress allowlists + DLP: restrict which domains agent tools may call, and redact PII from outbound request bodies automatically.
- Tamper-evident audit ledger: hash-chained, append-only logging with CSV, JSON, and SIEM-webhook export.
- Role-scoped permissions: map WordPress roles to the agents and scopes each role may use.
Channels, voice & human handoff
- New channels: Discord, Telegram, Microsoft Teams, SMS (Twilio), and a generic authenticated inbound webhook — all routed into the same agent runtime.
- Voice telephony via Twilio: multilingual speech, barge-in, and voicemail-to-agent — one agent across web, WhatsApp, Slack, and phone.
- Human handoff: pause an agent, take the visitor to a live operator in the handoff console, then resume.
Marketplace, Durable Workflows & MCP
- Marketplace: install signature-verified, sandboxed agents in two clicks — with ratings, reviews, semantic search, and version pinning. Publish your own trained agents for sale.
- Durable Workflows: build multi-step agent workflows in a visual node-graph builder — triggered by webhooks, schedules, WordPress hooks, or channel messages, with conditional branching, parallel steps, and human approval pauses.
- Outbound MCP client: agents can consume tools from external MCP servers, with per-tool risk gating through the same approval path as built-in tools.
- Slash Commands moved to Pro: the full command registry, per-agent toggles, and admin UI now live in the Pro plugin.
Consistent vertical navigation everywhere
- Unified admin layout: Activity, Deployment, Knowledge, Approvals, and Tools all now share the same left vertical nav introduced in Settings — easier to scan, easier to navigate, consistent everywhere.
Account tab
- At-a-glance account status: A new Account tab in Settings shows your current plan and which AI providers have an API key configured — displayed as a masked connection status, never shown in full. Free users see a direct link to explore Pro.
Settings redesign & global agent instructions
- Vertical navigation + search: Settings now uses a left-side nav with an instant search box — find any option without scrolling through tabs. Mirrors the layout of familiar desktop AI apps.
- General tab: Set site-wide context that applies to every agent — how agents address admins and visitors, shared background knowledge ("Instructions for Agents"), and a global chat font and accent colour.
Agent Creation Wizard
- "Train an Agent" wizard: A guided 5-step React flow — name, persona, provider/model, autonomy level, optional tools — lets you create and activate a new AI agent in minutes. Accessible from the Dashboard with a single click. No config files, no code.
Settings grouped into clusters
- Basic / Security & Limits / Advanced: Settings tabs are now organised into labelled groups so common options are front and centre and developer-only tabs (APIs, Endpoints) stay tucked away in Advanced mode.
Live Activity dashboard card
- Auto-refreshing React card: The Dashboard activity card is now live — it refreshes automatically and adds a Week / Month period toggle, replacing the static weekly-stats snapshot.
Simplified admin navigation & redesigned Dashboard
- Plain-English menu: "Deploy" renamed to "Publish", "Logs" renamed to "Activity". A new Basic / Advanced interface toggle hides developer tools (Skills, APIs, Endpoints) so the menu stays approachable for non-technical users.
- New Dashboard: Getting Started checklist, estimated usage stats, and quick actions trimmed to the most common tasks.
Multi-agent orchestration, local memory & quick-start templates
- Multi-agent orchestration: Team-lead agents can delegate subtasks to other active agents sequentially, with configurable depth, fan-out, and cost/token budgets. An Editorial Director template that orchestrates your specialist agents ships in the box.
- Local conversational memory: Agents recall relevant context from a user's past conversations — stored entirely on your server, no external cloud service (opt-in: Settings → Security → Local Memory). Respects chat retention windows and GDPR erasure requests.
- Quick-start templates: Four one-click agent templates: Support Triage, SEO Optimizer, Site Health Sentinel, and the Editorial Director team lead.
- WordPress Abilities readiness: A banner and outbound abilities list under Tools → WP Abilities shows your site's readiness for the WordPress native AI runtime (WP 6.9 / 7.0) with actionable guidance.
- Accessible UI: All blocking alert()/confirm() dialogs replaced with accessible toast notifications and keyboard-navigable modals (Esc to cancel, focus trap, screen-reader roles).
Cleaner Quick Start & smarter first-run experience
- Quick Start page: Clearer registration copy, corrected consent wording, and a skip link that lists all supported AI providers on a single line — less friction, more clarity.
- Focused first-run menu: When no LLM provider is configured, the admin menu shows only Quick Start and redirects all other Agent Builder pages there — no dead ends on a fresh install.
- AI Radar 1.2.0: Improved weekly scan prompt, smarter event listeners for robots.txt changes, and updated bot definitions.
Exception handling & security logging across all critical paths
- Hardened runtime: Every critical execution path — tool calls, chat streaming, approval queue, job processor — is now wrapped in try/catch with structured exception logging. Unexpected errors are caught and recorded rather than silently failing or producing a blank screen.
- Granular Security Log: All agent operations now emit structured Security Log entries including start, success, and failure states — easier to diagnose issues without turning on WP_DEBUG.
- Agent update fix: The one-click agent update now correctly handles zip archives that wrap files in a subdirectory (the most common GitHub release format).
Privacy improvements & cleaner activation
- No silent phone-home: The plugin no longer contacts agentic-plugin.com when it is activated — zero external requests fire without explicit administrator consent.
- Non-intrusive setup banner: Activation now shows a dismissable admin notice instead of forcing a redirect to the sign-up page, so WP-CLI and headless installs work correctly.
- Single-request sign-up: The sign-up flow now returns the license key alongside the API key in one request, removing a background HTTP call that happened silently after registration.
- Direct to chat: After completing setup, you land straight in the WordPress AI Assistant — no extra clicks.
New security tools, Forms Builder improvements & freemium UX
- 4 new Security Assistant tools: Publicly accessible files audit, file permissions checker, PHP compatibility scanner, and hosting plugin conflict detector — added after a real-world security incident highlighted these gaps.
- WordPress AI Assistant: Now gives actionable answers including code snippets, settings paths, and step-by-step instructions — the previous read-only restriction was over-broad and has been corrected.
- Forms Builder: Native form styling, new form list tool, and supervised mode fixes. Supports Contact Form 7, WPForms, Gravity Forms, and Fluent Forms.
- WP-CLI: New
wp agent update <slug>command to update agents from the terminal. - Freemium UX: Clearer quota error messages with direct links to buy credits. Dashboard upgrade nudge. 7-day conversation history available on the free tier.
Pro terminology & privacy update
- Privacy: Agent update checks are now strictly opt-in. The plugin will never contact agentic-plugin.com without explicit administrator consent — you'll see a clear consent screen on your first visit to the Agents page.
- Terminology: The plugin consistently uses "Pro" throughout the admin interface, matching the branding on the website and marketplace.
New AI models, Video Assistant & Logs redesign
- New models: Claude Sonnet/Opus/Haiku 4.x, Gemini 2.5 Pro/Flash/Flash-Lite, Grok 3 and Grok 3-mini added to the model picker.
- Video Assistant: New premium agent that generates video clips from text prompts with full post-production — trim, stitch, add background music, and generate captions. Powered by Google Veo via the Agentic service.
- Unified Logs: Audit Log, Conversations, and Security Log redesigned as a single tabbed interface with period filters (Today / Last 7 Days / Last 30 Days).
- Per-role usage limits: Set independent daily AI quotas for anonymous visitors, subscribers, contributors, authors, and editors.
Free Agentic AI included & privacy improvements
- Free AI out of the box: 50 AI chat queries per day at no cost, no API key required — powered by the Agentic AI service. Set up in seconds from the welcome screen.
- Privacy: IP addresses anonymised by default. GDPR data exporters and erasers expanded to cover all plugin data.
- Explicit consent: A clear sign-up screen explains exactly what data is shared before you connect to the Agentic AI service.
3 core free agents + safe Trainer (unlimited custom), daily quotas & Conversations
- Post-gap baseline (see strategy): exactly 3 core free agents (WordPress Assistant, Content Writer, Assistant Trainer) + safe Assistant Trainer for unlimited custom + 5 templates. (Earlier entries listed 10 including Pro/marketplace specialists; free is now precisely 3 + Trainer per F0–F4.)
- Daily usage quotas: Free tier enforces per-user daily limits on chat queries, image generation, and RAG lookups — with clear user-facing messages and a link to buy credits.
- Admin notifications: Email alert when users hit their daily quota.
- Conversations page: Browse and review all user chat sessions from the admin panel.
Redesigned admin menu & agent configuration
- New admin menu: Chat, Agents, Deploy, Tools, Skills, and Integrations — reorganised for clarity.
- Agent memory: Agents can retain information between sessions. Configure retention TTL per agent.
- Response style presets: Choose Balanced, Concise, Detailed, Technical, or Friendly for each agent.
- Suggested prompts: Customise the prompt quick-picks shown to users in each agent's chat.
Context-aware chat, Google Sheets & file uploads
- Context-aware chat: Chat widgets automatically inject the current page title, URL, and referrer into the conversation — agents know where the user is without any extra config.
- Google Sheets channel (Pro): Connect agents to read from and write to Google Sheets spreadsheets using a service account.
- GDPR consent gate: Optionally require visitor consent before the public chat widget activates.
- Image & file uploads: Users can attach images and files directly in the chat interface.
- Multimodal (vision): Agents can analyse image attachments using any vision-capable AI model.
GDPR consent gate & Costs tab
- GDPR consent (REST): The REST API is gated — AI requests cannot be sent until the visitor accepts the consent banner.
- Costs tab: View current AI model pricing across all providers directly inside your WordPress admin — no more tab-switching.
- Branded email alerts: Security events (failed logins, file changes) now trigger styled admin emails.
Knowledge Files & RAG via WP-CLI
- Knowledge Files: Agents declare knowledge files in their configuration and receive the content in their system prompt automatically — give agents reference documents, style guides, or FAQs they can always draw on.
- WP-CLI RAG commands: Manage your knowledge base from the terminal —
wp agent rag status|train|upload|delete|search. - Document formats: PDF, plain text, and Markdown files all supported.
Plugin update checker, deployment tabs & modal widget
- Auto-update checker: Get Agent Builder updates directly in your WordPress Plugins screen — no WP.org directory needed (Pro).
- Deployment tabs: Configure where each agent is deployed — admin chat, public shortcode, Gutenberg block, admin sidebar, or floating modal.
- Modal widget: A floating "chat" button that opens a full agent chat panel on any page — zero-code public deployment.
Plugin Assistant with Gutenberg blocks & MU plugin support
- Plugin Assistant improvements: Generates complete WordPress plugins from a plain-English description including React Gutenberg blocks, WP-CLI commands, REST API endpoints, and MU plugin variants.
- Multi-turn chat: Agents maintain context reliably across long conversations — better follow-up and iteration.
- Assistant Trainer hardening: More accurate agent generation with improved system prompts.
Vision model per provider & Ollama DB storage
- Vision model: Configure a dedicated vision-capable model per AI provider — e.g. use GPT-4o for vision and GPT-4o-mini for text to keep costs down.
- Ollama endpoint: Ollama server URL stored per-provider in the database — no more editing config files.
Anthropic (Claude) integration & write operations ledger
- Anthropic provider: Full Claude integration — tool calling, streaming, response normalisation. Default model set to Claude Sonnet.
- Write operations ledger: Every non-read-only tool call is logged with timestamp, mode (supervised/autonomous), and invocation context (chat/schedule/hook/CLI). 30-day retention.
- AI Radar: Preview robots.txt and llms.txt changes before writing — read-only preview tools bypass the approval queue.
Post scheduling, password reset tool & Gutenberg sidebar
- Post scheduling: Agents can now schedule posts for future publication — not just immediate publish.
- Force password reset: Security agents can flag a WordPress user account for a forced password change on next login.
- Gutenberg sidebar: Provider configuration warning now shown in the sidebar before you type anything — clearer feedback when the provider isn't set up.
- Per-shortcode styling: Each
[agentic_chat]shortcode can set its own theme, colours, and height independently.
Health tab redesign & per-service credit tracking
- Health tab: Completely redesigned — live service status indicators for every connected provider.
- Per-service credits: View your remaining AI credit balance broken down by service (chat, RAG, images, TTS).
- TTS toggle: Enable or disable text-to-speech output globally from the admin settings.
- Tab reordering: Drag settings tabs into any order and reset to defaults with one click.
MCP integration — connect Claude Desktop, VS Code & Cursor
- MCP server: Agent Builder exposes your agents as an MCP server. Connect Claude Desktop, VS Code Copilot, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client and use your site's agents as tools directly from your editor or AI assistant.
- Per-agent MCP servers: Enable MCP on a per-agent basis with configurable tool scopes.
- WP-CLI MCP command:
wp agent mcp-connectto test the connection from the terminal.
Gutenberg sidebar, event triggers & email templates
- Gutenberg editor sidebar: Chat with any agent without leaving the editor — get writing help, SEO suggestions, and content ideas while you're writing.
- Event trigger management: Browse and manage all active WordPress hook listeners from a dedicated UI.
- Email templates: Customise the HTML email templates sent by agent-triggered notifications.
WP-CLI agent execution
- WP-CLI tool: Run agent tasks directly from the command line — ideal for server-side automation, cron jobs, and CI/CD pipelines.
Safety & trust layer — risk levels and approval workflows
- 5-tier risk system: Every agent tool is classified as None / Low / Medium / High / Extreme risk. You decide which risk levels require manual approval before execution.
- Approval queue: High-risk actions pause and queue for administrator review — agents cannot execute destructive operations without human sign-off.
- Tamper protection: Agent configurations are integrity-checked on load to detect unauthorised modifications.
WhatsApp channel integration
- WhatsApp (Pro): Connect your agents to WhatsApp via the Meta Cloud API. Visitors and customers can chat with your AI agents directly through WhatsApp — no app to install on your server.
White-label branding
- White-label: Hide or replace "Agent Builder" branding in the chat interface — ship AI assistants under your own agency or product brand.
Granular permissions & proposal/review system
- Granular permissions: Control exactly what each agent can read and write — content, files, plugins, settings, emails, and more — independently per agent.
- Proposal/review system: Agents in supervised mode describe what they're about to do and wait for your approval before making any changes.
- Automatic backups: Files and database tables are backed up before any agent write operation.
- Write permissions off by default: New agents start in read-only mode for safety.
Real-time event listeners
- Event listeners: Agents react to WordPress hooks in real time — post published, comment added, user registered, plugin activated, and dozens more. No polling required.
- Async task handling: Agent responses in autonomous mode are processed asynchronously so they never block page loads.
Scheduled tasks & Security Monitor
- Scheduled tasks: Agents can run recurring jobs on any cron schedule — daily SEO audits, weekly security scans, monthly reports.
- Security Monitor: Daily autonomous scan for failed logins, outdated plugins, modified files, and suspicious admin accounts.
Agent Builder — initial stable release
- Core AI agent runtime — create, configure, and run AI agents inside WordPress.
- Multi-provider support: OpenAI, Google Gemini, xAI, Mistral, Meta Llama, and Ollama.
- Tool system: content creation, SEO analysis, security scanning, file management, and more — extensible by developers.
- Full audit log of every agent action.
- WP-CLI, WP REST API, and Gutenberg block integrations.
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