Aculect AI Companion

Pre-production Notice

Aculect AI Companion is an early release and is not intended for production websites yet. It can create, update, and manage WordPress content through connected AI assistants, so test it only on development or staging sites and enable it only with explicit approval from the site owner.

Aculect AI Companion lets site owners manage their WordPress site using an AI assistant. Instead of navigating WordPress menus, you can ask your AI assistant in plain English to create posts, update pages, moderate comments, upload media, and review safe site information.

Setup is designed to be simple:

1. Copy your connection URL from Settings > Aculect AI Companion.
2. Open your AI tool and add a new connector.
3. Paste the URL when prompted.
4. Approve the connection on the screen that appears.

After approval, Aculect AI Companion checks the connected WordPress user’s permissions before every action. You can also choose exactly what your AI can do and disconnect assistants at any time.

Features

• Create, edit, and publish posts and pages
• Manage categories, tags, and content groups
• Moderate and reply to comments
• Upload and list media
• View site settings, active plugins, and themes
• Connect and disconnect AI assistants

Supported AI Tools

Aculect AI Companion currently includes setup guidance for:

• ChatGPT app with Developer Mode connectors
• OpenAI API integrations that support remote connectors
• Claude app, Claude Desktop, Claude Cowork, and Claude mobile
• Claude Code
• Claude API integrations that support remote connectors

Your AI tool must be able to reach your WordPress site over HTTPS to connect.

Supported Abilities

Admins can enable or disable these abilities from Settings > Aculect AI Companion > Abilities after the first assistant connection is active.

Content:

• List readable content types, including custom post types
• List posts, pages, and custom content items with pagination
• Read one content item by ID
• Create a post, page, or custom content item
• Update title, content, excerpt, slug, or status for an existing item

Content groups:

• List available categories, tags, and custom content groups
• List terms for a supported taxonomy with pagination
• Create a category, tag, or custom content group
• Update a category, tag, or custom content group

Comments:

• List comments for review with pagination
• Read one comment by ID
• Reply to a comment as the connected WordPress user
• Moderate comment content or status

Media:

• List media library attachments with pagination
• Upload media from a public URL with server-side request checks

Site information:

• View safe, non-secret site settings
• View WordPress version, PHP version, active theme, and basic site metadata
• List installed plugins and active state for users who can manage plugins
• List installed themes and active state for users who can manage themes

WordPress abilities:

• Discover supported public WordPress abilities registered by WordPress and plugins
• Inspect one supported public WordPress ability
• Run a supported public WordPress ability using the connected user’s permissions

Third Party Services

Aculect AI Companion does not send site data to an external service on activation, page load, cron, or without a site administrator connecting an AI assistant.

When a site administrator copies the connection URL into an external AI assistant and approves the connection screen in WordPress, that assistant can request the enabled abilities. Depending on the enabled abilities and the connected WordPress user’s permissions, requested data may include post titles, post content, excerpts, slugs, statuses, authors, dates, permalinks, category and tag names, media metadata, comments, and safe site settings such as site name, description, URLs, locale, timezone, date format, time format, permalink structure, and active theme name.

The external service that receives this data is the AI assistant selected and configured by the administrator. Aculect AI Companion’s built-in setup UI includes links for:

• ChatGPT by OpenAI: https://chatgpt.com/, terms at https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use/, and privacy policy at https://openai.com/policies/row-privacy-policy/
• Claude by Anthropic: https://claude.ai/, terms at https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms, and privacy policy at https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy

Administrators should review the terms and privacy policy for the AI assistant they connect. Aculect AI Companion controls the WordPress-side approval and permissions checks; it does not control how a connected external assistant processes data after the administrator authorizes access.

Development

The production package ships built assets and Composer dependencies. Development manifests such as composer.json, composer.lock, and package.json are intentionally excluded from release ZIP files. Generated files under build/ are not committed to the source repository; release automation generates them before packaging.

For source code, build tooling, and exact dependency manifests, use the public GitHub repository:

https://github.com/mehul0810/aculect-ai-companion

Contributing guidelines:

https://github.com/mehul0810/aculect-ai-companion/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md

Security policy:

https://github.com/mehul0810/aculect-ai-companion/security/policy

From the repository checkout, use the Node.js version in .nvmrc and rebuild assets with:

npm ci
npm run build

Composer dependencies for production releases are installed with:

composer install --no-dev --prefer-dist --optimize-autoloader