A customer asks you to delete their data, the erasure report says zero items, and your chat plugin still has every conversation stored. ERC research wants exactly those cross-session profiles, and WordPress privacy tools only see what you register.
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.
Advice on agent costs splits between free-roaming agents and tightly scripted ones. Exploring once and replaying the path makes sense, but in WordPress that replay is a cache, and the part that bites is invalidation.
A study tested ChatGPT on econometric code in Python, R and Stata, and it did well except in the language with the least public code. Legacy WordPress and WooCommerce work has the same weak spot, so I benchmark AI output before I trust it.
A recent piece argues most AI agents fail because teams build them top-down and hope the model holds it together. I agree, but WordPress has no long-running PHP process, so that orchestration has to live in hooks, the database and a queue.
Every AI plugin ends up needing a threshold for when to auto-apply an answer and when to hold it for review. The confidence number most of us gate on tracks how fluently the model produced its tokens, which is a different thing from whether the answer is true.
A Towards Data Science tutorial calls a small Python chat loop an AI agent. The client setup is worth keeping, but it has no memory, no tools and no stop condition, and a WordPress build has to add all three.
On client sites, agents write plausible code against a stack that is not there. Specs help when they record what your WordPress install actually runs. These are the facts I pin down first.
WordPress Guidelines keeps agent memory, skills and instructions in an ordinary custom post type, and it’s headed for Core. Here’s what that means for plugins with their own memory stores, which permissions to test first, and when a separate table still makes sense.
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.