Uncanny Agent, the AI assistant built into Uncanny Automator, does more than answer questions. It can take real actions on your WordPress site for you, and it checks with you before important actions. This article is a tour of the kinds of work you can hand to it.
Build Uncanny Automator recipes
Uncanny Agent can turn a description of an automation into a working recipe. A recipe is a deterministic automation: triggers, conditions, and actions that run the same way every time. You can say things like:
- “When a user buys the Gold membership in WooCommerce, enroll them in the Member Onboarding course in LearnDash and add them to the Members group.”
- “Post the previous week’s top-selling products to our internal Slack channel.”
- “When a form on the Contact page is submitted, create a HubSpot contact and send me an email.”
Uncanny Agent checks which integrations are connected, picks suitable triggers and actions, sets up the tokens, and saves the recipe switched off (Recipe off). It switches the recipe on only if you ask it to, so if you didn’t, review the recipe and switch it on yourself.
Help from inside the recipe builder
While you work on a recipe yourself, Uncanny Agent is a click away in the recipe builder:
- Ask Uncanny Agent: in the ⋮ More actions menu, it starts a conversation about the recipe you have open. Triggers, actions, and recipe blocks offer it too, for help with that one item.
- Fix with Uncanny Agent: shown with validation messages, for example when the builder won’t switch a recipe on and lists what to fix. It asks Uncanny Agent to fix the problems listed.
- Suggest title: shown beside the title of a recipe that has no name yet. It asks Uncanny Agent to name the recipe.
Create content
Uncanny Agent can create posts, pages, WooCommerce products, LearnDash courses and lessons, and other content types. Give it a topic, a tone, an outline, or a link for inspiration. It drafts the content and then, depending on what you ask for, either saves it for your review or publishes it to your site and connected social channels.
Build pages
When Uncanny Page Builder is enabled on the site, Uncanny Agent builds and refines whole pages from a description: the layout, the content, and the styling. See Building pages with Uncanny Agent and Getting started with Uncanny Page Builder.
Look up information about your site
Ask Uncanny Agent questions about your data, not only general WordPress documentation:
- “How are my sales trending month over month and year over year?”
- “Show me the top 5 customers by lifetime value.”
- “Which products are often purchased together?”
- “What integrations do I have connected?”
Diagnose recipes that aren’t working
If a recipe isn’t doing what you expect, describe the problem. Uncanny Agent checks the logs, looks at how the recipe is set up, and suggests a fix. It can often spot a missing token, a misconfigured Filter block, or an integration that has lost its connection.
Explain features and walk you through tasks
You can also use Uncanny Agent as a patient tutor. Ask how a feature works, whether a Loop block should loop through users or posts for what you have in mind, or how to set up a webhook trigger. Uncanny Agent explains it in the context of your site and the plugins you have installed.
Related: Tips for getting better results from Uncanny Agent, Getting started with Uncanny Agent, Using AI safely with WordPress, Reviewing what Uncanny Agent did
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