An AI feature that works for three turns and then dies with a context length exceeded error has a design flaw. The transcript was never a database. Here’s where the run log belongs and how to keep prompt caching working.
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.
WordPress.com now shows Bluesky, Mastodon, and Fediverse timelines in the Reader, next to the blogs you follow. Here’s how that compares with running ActivityPub and Friends on your own install, and where a WooCommerce store should opt out.
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.
WordPress 7.0 Armstrong puts an AI layer into core: an AI Client, a Connectors API, and one screen for provider keys. I look at what it changes for plugin code, what stays off by default, and what to test before updating client sites.
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.
I read the WordCamp Europe 2026 schedule as a prep list. Register one Abilities API entry on staging, run the WordPress 7.0 upgrade on a copy, and pick the sessions you will actually use before Kraków or the livestream.
AWS shipped the Agent Toolkit, which gives coding agents skills, live docs and an MCP server. The part I care about is the guardrails: IAM condition keys that mark agent calls, and CloudTrail records of what the agent did. Set those up before an agent gets near a client account.
WooCommerce 10.8 brings security fixes, new database indexes and fewer queries, plus a checkout-draft change on the orders REST API that can hide orders from integrations. Here’s what I’d check before updating a client store, and when I’d wait.