Tactical — AI Agent Detection for WooCommerce

Most AI retrieval crawlers — the bots that feed ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google’s AI answers — do not run JavaScript, so JavaScript-only analytics (including standard site analytics) never see them. This plugin adds server-side detection: when a known AI crawler requests a page, Tactical records it — no JavaScript required. Human visitors are untouched (an event fires only on a matched AI user-agent), so there’s zero measurable impact on page speed.

AI shopping agents and crawlers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI visit your storefront every day — fetching products, comparing prices, deciding what to recommend. This plugin makes that traffic visible: which AI fetched which product pages, what shopping agents did on-site, and which humans arrived from AI answers.

This plugin connects your WooCommerce store to Tactical, a third-party agent-traffic intelligence service operated at https://tactical-app.work. The plugin handles install, snippet injection, and WooCommerce webhook registration; the dashboard, alerts, and reporting live in your Tactical account on tactical-app.work.

What you get:

Agent Traffic Monitor — real-time counts of agent visits broken down by agent type, day, and product

Intent Signals — score every session by browse vs. buy intent; compare agent vs. human conversion

Competitive Exposure (paid plans) — see which competitors are sending agents to check your prices

Why agent traffic matters now:

Standard analytics filter agent traffic out as “bot noise”. As of Q2 2026, AI agents make up an estimated 8–12% of e-commerce site visits — and that share is growing month over month. The merchants who see this traffic are the ones positioned to capture the buyers it represents.