OpenStation vs SmartCloud AI-Kit – On-Device AI Tools

wp-admin forgets. OpenStation doesn’t. You know the moment. You’re deep in a post and you need one image from the Media Library. You click over, find it, click back, and everything you had going is gone. Your scroll position, your half-typed thought, the three other things you had queued up in your head. That’s not a bug you hit. That’s the design. wp-admin shows you one screen at a time, and every navigation throws the last one away. It has worked this way since 2003, like a fridge that empties itself every time you close the door. WordPress has rebuilt almost everything else. The editor, the site editor, the patterns, the styles. The admin’s one-screen-at-a-time model is the layer nobody touched. OpenStation touches it. Install it and admin screens become draggable, resizable windows. Edit a post while the Media Library sits open next to it. Drag an image from one window straight into the other. Keep comments open in the corner. Reload the browser and your window layout — open pages, positions, sizes, and window states — comes back where you left it. OpenStation itself is free, GPL, and opt-in per user. One click in the admin bar turns it on for you. One click turns it off. Nobody else on your site sees anything change, and deactivating the plugin restores the classic admin exactly. No Core patches and no lock-in. Optional AI providers may charge for their service. Built and maintained by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, and Tumblr. Work on more than one thing at once Admin pages open as windows, including pages added by most other plugins. Drag them, resize them, snap them, tile them, minimize them to a taskbar. The admin menu becomes a dock of icons. Two editors open at once is one click away. Never lose your place Moving between open windows leaves each page in place. Across reloads, OpenStation remembers your open pages, window positions, sizes and states, virtual desktops, and focus. Closing a window with unsaved changes warns you first. A desk you can actually put things on Drop posts, media, and links right onto the wallpaper. Sort them into folders. Trash them to a Trash that actually holds things. The stuff you’re working on this week can just sit out where you can see it. One desktop per job Virtual desktops, the way your operating system does them. One for writing. One for the store. One for comment triage. One for that redesign you keep poking at. Switch between them without closing anything. Find anything with Cmd+K The full WordPress command palette, plus slash commands from your plugins, all under one keystroke. Turn on the optional AI assistant and you can ask it things like “which post had the comment asking for the recipe?” and it searches your own content to answer. (Requires an AI provider configured in Settings → Connectors on WordPress 7.0+. Details under “External services” below.) See how your site fits together The Corkboard is an interactive, zoomable map of how your posts, pages, and products link to each other. Pan around it. Find the orphans. Find the hubs. Running a store? Orders, Products, Coupons, and Customers become browsable folders with stock and sale ribbons. Open a customer to see their lifetime spend and what they buy most. Follow a product to its buyers, or a coupon to who redeemed it. Make it yours Wallpapers, from color presets to animated scenes to your own photo. Live widgets pinned to the desktop: drafts, stats, recent comments, a focus timer. Uploadable desktop themes, including a built-in Legacy theme that brings the old WordPress blue back in one click. And Mio, a soft-body desk companion that drifts across your wallpaper and gets bumped around by your windows. Off by default. You’ll turn it on. For developers Extend OpenStation through documented PHP and JavaScript APIs. Register windows, icons, wallpapers, widgets, commands, and settings tabs through stable openstation_register_* PHP APIs and a typed JavaScript API; customize dock items through documented hooks; add AI tools with the WordPress Abilities API. Copy-paste examples live in the developer docs on GitHub. External services No external service is required for OpenStation’s desktop interface. The optional AI Assistant and two user-initiated enrichment features make the external requests described below. AI Assistant The optional AI Assistant sends data to the AI provider you configure in WordPress’s Settings → Connectors (for example OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google). Generation is routed through WordPress 7.0’s built-in AI Client, which supplies the credentials stored in Connectors. The plugin never handles an API key itself. With no provider configured in Connectors, no external AI requests are made. When the AI Assistant is enabled and a user invokes it (via Cmd+K or the slash-command palette): What is sent: the user’s prompt, the conversation history for the active session, and tool-call metadata. The plugin’s built-in tools (search_posts, search_pages, search_comments) run WordPress’s native keyword search and may include excerpts of the matching posts/pages/comments in tool results, which are then sent back to the provider as part of the agentic loop. When it is sent: on user-initiated AI requests, and (if an administrator enables “Score new comments with AI”) on comment-save hooks for spam analysis. Posts, pages, and taxonomy terms are not sent automatically. Why it is sent: to obtain model completions and tool-call decisions that drive the AI Assistant. Who provides the service: whichever provider you configured in Settings → Connectors. Which provider (and endpoint) receives the data depends entirely on that configuration. Review the chosen provider’s own terms and privacy policy (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google). URL shortcut favicons When an authorized user creates a desktop shortcut to an external URL, OpenStation asks that URL for its page HTML and favicon so the shortcut can display the site’s icon. The request is made from your WordPress server and sends the requested URL, the server’s IP address, an OpenStation user-agent string, and normal HTTP request metadata to the operator of that site. This happens only when a user creates the shortcut. The destination site’s terms and privacy policy apply. WordPress.org plugin information When an authorized user opens or refreshes parts of OpenStation’s Plugins window, OpenStation may request public plugin details, update metadata, and review excerpts from WordPress.org. These requests send plugin slugs, the site’s locale, and normal HTTP request metadata to WordPress.org. This information is used only to display and manage plugins. Review the WordPress.org Privacy Policy. OpenStation’s OAuth relay does not contact a service by itself. Third-party plugins that configure the relay may contact their own providers and are responsible for disclosing those services. Credits OpenStation is brought to you by Automattic. The plugin is open source under GPLv2-or-later; contributions are welcome on GitHub. Third-party libraries The plugin bundles the following third-party JavaScript library, loaded on demand only when a feature that needs it is in use: PixiJS (MIT License) — used by the Corkboard window, built-in canvas wallpapers (e.g. the animated WordPress logo), the Mio desk companion, and the Inkfall typing game. PixiJS is loaded from the plugin’s own assets/vendor/ directory; no CDN requests are made. Data files The Inkfall game’s word list (assets/games/inkfall/words.txt) is generated from the following sources (attribution also ships in the file’s header): FrequencyWords by Hermit Dave (CC-BY-SA 4.0) — English word-frequency ranking derived from the OpenSubtitles corpus. english-words by dwyl (Unlicense) — used as a validity filter. LDNOOBW English list (CC-BY 4.0) — used as an exclusion filter.

AI-Kit brings practical AI helpers to WordPress while keeping privacy first. AI-Kit is part of the WP Suite product family by Smart Cloud Solutions, Inc. WP Suite keeps WordPress as the CMS and editing layer, while optional connected features can extend selected workflows into modular AWS-backed services for identity, AI, APIs, workflows, protected routes, and static delivery. The free AI-Kit features described here do not require a WP Suite account, subscription, or AWS backend unless you explicitly configure an external service or upgrade-only backend feature. Free (local-only) mode AI-Kit uses Chrome’s built-in on-device AI capabilities (when available). In this mode, content is processed locally in the browser. Key features * Media Library: SEO image metadata generation * Works in the Media Library list view and grid view * Supports both the attachment details panel and the attachment edit screen * Includes bulk workflows (preview and accept/save items one-by-one) * Gutenberg: AI-Kit Sidebar * Post metadata generation * Text generation (topic + instructions + tone + length + language) * Gutenberg: Inline tools (toolbar group) * Proofread, rewrite, and translate selected/editable text blocks * Gutenberg: SEO Metadata panel for image-like blocks * Adds a dedicated panel for core/image, core/cover and core/media-text, to generate SEO metadata for images * PRO: AI-Kit Chatbot * Add an on-site chatbot widget configurable from WP Admin (appearance, labels, behavior) * Customize chat UI labels (e.g., title and placeholder), language and text direction (LTR/RTL/auto) * Customize the open button (position, label, optional base64 icon) * Use Preview to instantly try your current settings without saving * PRO: AI-Kit Feature block * Add front-end buttons to summarize, write, rewrite, translate, and proofread * PRO: [smartcloud-ai-kit-feature] shortcode * Use the same “AI-Kit Feature” functionality in other editors/builders via a shortcode * Developer API * AI-Kit exposes a small JS surface under globalThis.WpSuite.plugins.aiKit.features so developers can integrate AI-Kit features in their own plugins and custom code. You can find the plugin’s continuously expanding documentation at: WP Suite – Docs This plugin is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google, Amazon Web Services, or the WordPress Foundation. All trademarks are property of their respective owners. Free and Premium Usage Notice AI-Kit works in Free mode without registration or subscription, using local-only (on-device) AI inside supported desktop Chrome browsers. Pro features are optional and become available after connecting your WordPress site to a WP Suite workspace: * AI-Kit Chatbot (on-site widget + customizable settings + Preview) * Front-end AI-Kit Feature Gutenberg block * Front-end smartcloud- shortcode * Optional backend-only / backend-fallback modes (when on-device AI is unavailable or when you explicitly choose backend processing) When backend is used, requests go to an API endpoint you configure — typically an AWS API deployed into your own AWS account using the “wpsuite-ai-kit” SAR template. Machine-readable resources AI plugin manifest: https://wpsuite.io/.well-known/ai-plugin.json OpenAPI spec: https://wpsuite.io/.well-known/openapi.yaml External Services This plugin may integrate with the following external services, depending on configuration: Google reCAPTCHA v3 What it is & what it’s used for: Client-side bot detection. If enabled, AI-Kit can request reCAPTCHA tokens in the browser to protect certain interactions. What data is sent & when: The browser may contact Google to retrieve a reCAPTCHA token (client-side). Configuration in WordPress: Enter your reCAPTCHA site key in AI-Kit → Settings (or the relevant WP Suite settings screen, depending on your setup). Links: About reCAPTCHA: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/about/ Google Terms: https://policies.google.com/terms Google Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy Customer-configured AI backend endpoint (Pro only) What it is & what it’s used for: An API endpoint you configure for backend-only or backend fallback processing when on-device AI is unavailable or when you choose to run on the backend. What data is sent & when: Text and/or image-related inputs required to fulfill the specific feature request (e.g., rewrite input, summarization text, metadata prompts). Where it goes: Requests are sent to the API URL you provide — typically an AWS API deployed to your own AWS account (e.g., via the “wpsuite-ai-kit” SAR template). How it’s called: Standard HTTPS requests (fetch) from the browser. WP Suite platform connection (optional; site/workspace linking & shared features) When it applies: When you use WP Admin → SmartCloud → Connect your Site to WP Suite to link this WordPress site to a WP Suite workspace, or to switch/disconnect later. What it’s used for: Storing and retrieving Pro feature configuration (e.g., API/chatbot/feature settings) and enabling an admin-side preview experience so you can try Pro features in WP Admin before enabling them on the live site. What data may be sent: Minimal account/session data required for authentication, and minimal site/workspace linking data required to associate a WordPress site with a workspace (e.g., site/workspace identifiers and the site’s URL/domain). Where it goes / how it’s called: Secure HTTPS requests from the browser to WPSuite.io services (e.g. wpsuite.io and api.wpsuite.io). Links: WPSuite.io Privacy Policy: https://wpsuite.io/privacy-policy WPSuite.io Terms of Use: https://wpsuite.io/terms-of-use Amazon Cognito (optional; authentication for WP Suite Hub and/or protected APIs) When it applies: When using the WP Suite Hub, users authenticate (sign in / sign up) before creating/selecting a workspace and linking a site. If a plugin is configured to access protected endpoints that rely on Cognito, authentication/token flows may also be used for those requests. What it’s used for: User authentication and token-based authorization for subsequent API calls (e.g., to WPSuite.io APIs). Links: AWS Service Terms: https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/ AWS Privacy: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/ Stripe (optional; subscription/purchase flow) When it applies: Only when the user opens the optional WP Suite subscription / purchase flow in the shared admin component. What it’s used for: Displaying hosted pricing/subscription UI for optional paid features. What data may be sent: Browser/session data required by Stripe to render the hosted purchase UI and process the purchase flow. Links: Terms: https://stripe.com/legal/consumer Privacy: https://stripe.com/privacy Trademark Notice Google Chrome and reCAPTCHA are trademarks of Google LLC. Amazon Web Services, AWS, Amazon Cognito, and Amazon Bedrock are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. AI-Kit is an independent project and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Google, Amazon Web Services, or the WordPress Foundation. Source & Build Public (free) source code: All code that ships in the public (free) version of AI-Kit is available here: https://github.com/smartcloudsol/ai-kit Build & distribution: AI-Kit is shipped to WordPress.org as a pre-built distribution. Build steps and developer notes are maintained in the GitHub repository documentation. Shared WP Suite components: Some admin UI modules may originate from shared WP Suite components to support workspace linking, license validation, and subscription management across WP Suite plugins. Pro-only features (source availability): AI-Kit Pro includes additional functionality (such as the AI-Kit Chatbot, backend-powered processing, and the front-end Feature block/shortcode experience). The code that enables these paid-only features is distributed to Pro users but is not published in the public repository.