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