AI Assistants in Plain English
Think of AI assistants as specialized helpers that live inside your WordPress dashboard. You talk to them in plain English, and they help you get things done — writing blog posts, checking your site’s health, customizing your theme, or automating routine tasks.
Unlike traditional plugins that add buttons and settings pages, assistants work through conversation. You describe what you want, and they figure out how to do it.
How They Work
- You type a request in the chat interface — for example, “Draft a blog post about our summer sale”
- The assistant thinks about your request using AI (from OpenAI, Anthropic, or xAI)
- It uses tools to interact with your WordPress site — reading your content, checking settings, creating drafts
- It responds with the result — a draft post ready for your review
What Can They Do?
- Write and edit content — Blog posts, page copy, product descriptions
- Answer questions about your site — “How many posts did I publish last month?”
- Help with customization — Theme colors, layout changes, CSS tweaks
- Automate routine work — Scheduled reports, content checks, SEO reviews
- Development tasks — Shortcodes, custom post types, plugin modifications
What They Cannot Do
- Access anything outside your WordPress site
- Make changes without your approval (write actions require confirmation)
- Send emails, charge customers, or perform irreversible actions on their own
- Work without an AI provider API key
Is My Data Safe?
Yes. Assistants run entirely within your WordPress installation. The only external communication is with your chosen AI provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, or xAI) to process requests. Your site data never passes through our servers. See Security & Privacy for details.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need any coding knowledge to use AI assistants?
No. AI assistants work entirely through plain English conversation. You type what you want — “draft a product page for my new sneaker line” or “check why my homepage is loading slowly” — and the assistant figures out how to do it. No code, no settings, no technical knowledge required. If you want to do something more technical like editing theme files or adding custom PHP, the assistant can help with that too, but it will walk you through it conversationally.
Which AI providers does Agent Builder support?
Agent Builder connects to OpenAI (GPT-4o, GPT-4 Turbo), Anthropic (Claude 3.5, Claude 3 Opus), xAI (Grok), Google (Gemini), Mistral, and Ollama for local, offline use. You can configure different providers for different assistants — for example, using Claude for creative writing and GPT-4o for code tasks. See Connecting an AI Provider for cost estimates and recommendations for each provider.
Will the assistant make changes to my site without asking?
No. Any action that modifies your site — creating a post, editing a file, changing a setting — requires your explicit approval first. The assistant describes exactly what it is about to do and waits for you to confirm or reject it. Read-only actions like viewing posts, checking plugins, or listing content happen automatically without a prompt, since they cannot cause harm. You can also switch to supervised mode for even stricter control over medium-risk actions. See Permissions and Safety for the full breakdown.
Can I have multiple AI assistants with different specialisations?
Yes. You can run as many assistants as you need simultaneously. Agent Builder ships with seven bundled assistants covering content writing, SEO, security, site health, AI research, WordPress management, and assistant training. You can also install premium agents from the marketplace or build your own using the Assistant Trainer. Each assistant has its own system prompt, tools, and configuration — so a customer service bot and a developer assistant can run side by side with entirely different personalities and capabilities.
Does Agent Builder send my site content to third parties?
The only external service your site content is ever sent to is your chosen AI provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Google, or Mistral) — and only when you actively send a message to an assistant. Nothing is sent automatically in the background. Your content never passes through Agentic’s servers. Each AI provider has their own data processing policies; links to their data processing agreements are available in GDPR and Data Protection. If you need full data sovereignty, use Ollama to run a local model entirely on your own server.