Connecting an AI Assistant

Each Promptless plugin has its own connector: a small program on your computer that lets an AI assistant such as Claude Desktop work on the site through that plugin’s API. The assistant acts as the WordPress user who set the connector up, with that user’s permissions — no more.

Connector	What the assistant can do	Needs
Promptless WP	Build and edit pages, the design system, header, footer and announcement bar, menus, media, redirects, and check the whole site	A paid Promptless WP licence
Promptless CPT Pages	Create record types, fields and groupings; create, update, import and remove records	—
Promptless Forms	Create and edit forms, send test submissions, read entries when allowed	—
FlowMint Workflows	Create and test workflows, read run history, replay runs	Promptless Forms

How to set them up

Every connector is set up the same way, from its own screen in WordPress: generate a connection, copy the command it shows, run it in Terminal, then quit and reopen Claude Desktop. The commands add separate entries to the same Claude Desktop configuration, so one conversation can use all four.

The full walkthrough, including Windows and Linux and the common problems, is in Setting Up the Promptless Connector; FlowMint’s differences are in its Connector Setup page.

Before the first task in a conversation, ask the assistant to run each connector’s preflight check. It reports the site, the connected user’s permissions, and a link to that plugin’s rulebook, which the assistant reads before making changes.

What the assistant cannot do

• More than the connected user can. Connect with an administrator only when the assistant should be able to change the whole site. On Promptless WP, the site-wide tools (design settings, fonts, header, footer, popups, scaffold and reset) need Developer access.
• Anything without an active Promptless WP licence, for the Promptless WP connector. The three free connectors keep working.
• Delete without a way back, by default. Pages and records go to the trash unless a permanent delete is explicitly requested.
• Run unlimited requests. The Promptless WP, CPT Pages and Forms connectors limit how often a tool can be called and answer with a retry time when a limit is reached. FlowMint’s connector has no limit of its own; only a signed-in account with the connector switched on can reach it.

Order matters across connectors

• Create a form before the page that embeds it. The page refers to the form by its id, [pforms_form id="…"]; a missing form renders as nothing.
• Create a record type and its fields before a post grid that shows them, and set fields as filterable before turning on a grid’s filters.
• Create the form before the FlowMint workflow that listens to it.

After a round of changes, ask the assistant to validate the whole site (wordpress_validate_site). It lists what is wrong, page by page, with the fix.

Related pages

• Installing the Stack — The order to install the Promptless products, their WordPress and PHP requirements, where each one is downloaded and how it is updated.
• Setting Up the Promptless Connector — Connect Claude Desktop to your site from Promptless WP → Connector, check it works, fix the common setup problems, and disconnect it.
• What the Assistant Can Do — Every tool an AI assistant gets through the Promptless connector, grouped by task, with the limits and permissions that apply to each.
• Connector Overview — The 32 connector tools grouped by task, how to turn the connector on, permissions, rate limits, version conflicts, and how deleting records and types works.
• The Forms connector — What an AI assistant can do with your forms through the connector, how to connect it, the two access switches, and every tool it gets.
• Connector Overview — The 16 FlowMint connector tools grouped by task, the permission they need, the REST API behind them, and what an assistant cannot do through them.