Context Assistant

Context Assistant

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Context Assistant adds an AI chat widget to your site — but unlike a
generic chatbot, it is built around three ideas:

  • Page context. The assistant knows where the visitor is: which
    post or product is open, its title and categories. Never the page
    body, never form input, never cookies — only small facts you allow.
  • Answers from your content. Published posts, pages and products
    are synced into a knowledge base; the assistant answers questions
    about your site, grounded in retrieval, not model memory.
  • Safe actions. The assistant can act — search content, draft
    posts, check a customer’s own order, update stock — always with the
    signed-in user’s own WordPress capabilities, and any change only
    after an explicit preview card and an Apply click. Deletions need a
    second confirmation and go to the trash, never permanent removal.

The heavy lifting (models, retrieval, orchestration) runs on a Context
Assistant server; this plugin connects your site to it. Your secret API
key is encrypted at rest and never leaves your server — visitors only
ever hold short-lived tokens.

WooCommerce: with WooCommerce active, the assistant additionally
searches the catalog with live prices and stock, shows a signed-in
customer the status of their own orders, and lets shop managers update
stock through the preview/Apply flow.

For developers: add your own assistant tools with the
context_assistant_tools filter, extend the page context with
context_assistant_page_context, and control widget visibility with
context_assistant_should_render. WP-CLI: wp context-assistant sync.

External services

This plugin does not work on its own: the models, retrieval and
orchestration run on a Context Assistant server that you configure
in Settings Context Assistant (the API URL). That server is
either your own self-hosted instance or the hosted Context Assistant
service — the plugin talks only to whichever URL you enter.

What the plugin sends to that server, and when:

  • When a visitor opens the chat — a short-lived embed token is
    minted for the browser, and the page context you allowed (page URL,
    titles, public taxonomy terms; each behind its own privacy toggle,
    never the page body or form input) is attached to the conversation.
  • On each message — the visitor’s message text and that page
    context, so the assistant can answer. Visitors are identified by an
    anonymous cookie, not by name.
  • When knowledge sync is enabled — the text of your published
    posts, pages and products (never drafts or private content), so the
    assistant can answer from your own content.
  • When the Remote Tools bridge is enabled — the server calls back
    into your site to run tools under the signed-in user’s own WordPress
    capabilities; your secret API key stays encrypted on your server and
    is never sent to the browser.

Conversation transcripts are stored on that server and can be exported
or deleted (see the FAQ). No data is sent anywhere else.

If you use the hosted Context Assistant service, it is operated
under its own terms of service and privacy policy:
Terms: https://contextassistant.io/terms/
Privacy: https://contextassistant.io/privacy/

Details

Plugin code:
context-assistant
Plugin version:
0.1.0
Outdated:
No
WP version:
6.2 or higher
PHP version:
8.0 or higher
Test up to WP version:
7.0.3
Total installations:
0
Last updated:
2026-08-07
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