WooCommerce is shipping read-only abilities across Subscriptions, WooPayments, shipping and marketing extensions, and it published the agent skills used to build them. I’d skip the hype and use those skills on your own plugin: install, audit, register behind a version guard, then verify.
Woo’s WordCamp Europe 2026 post is thin as an event announcement and useful as a roadmap signal. The topics they want to discuss, checkout blocks, MCP, AI workflows, are the ones worth preparing questions for, and the same questions work by email.
Legal answers “it depends” and code needs yes or no. I take Corné Potgieter’s case for machine-readable compliance and shrink it to WordPress size: the five answers to demand from legal, the hooks core already ships, and a purpose gate you can build on a WooCommerce store this week.
Microsoft Fabric’s data agent lets people ask a report questions in plain language and get numbers back. The pattern is heading for WooCommerce, but it assumes a modelled reporting layer most stores don’t have yet. The real work sits below the chat.
WooCommerce 10.9 adds seven canonical product and order abilities and starts retiring the REST-shaped MCP beta. Most stores can wait. If you call /wp-json/woocommerce/mcp you have a migration to plan, and extension authors have two traps to watch for.
Agent features drift from one helper to a sprawl nobody can put a price on. This post maps four operations research models onto real decisions, like which agents to build and how to route requests, then covers where the solver should live on a WordPress site.
A spinner tells users nothing when an AI agent takes 20 seconds to think. These are the patterns I use instead: specific status updates, a thinking toggle, checklists that handle partial success, and a saved audit trail.
I stopped hand-reviewing every line my coding agents write. What I do instead: fine-grained permissions in settings.json, a strict deny list for destructive commands, and a second agent that reviews the first one’s work.
MCP servers are becoming the plugin bloat of the AI era. Why a sandboxed CLI gives an agent more capability per token than a menu of narrow tools, and how to keep shell access from being a liability.
I stopped hand-holding Claude Code and gave it a nightly review instead: a self-reflection skill, a 2 AM cron job, and a rules file it edits itself. This is the setup I run on real WordPress work.