=== SiteAgent for Aura === Contributors: benkalsky Tags: ai, automation, maintenance, updates, wordpress management Requires at least: 6.2 Tested up to: 7.1 Requires PHP: 7.4 Stable tag: 2.16.2 License: GPLv2 or later License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Let AI update and maintain WordPress with Aura's guardrails: optional per-action approval, an audit trail, and auto-rollback on safe batch updates. == Description == **SiteAgent** turns every WordPress site into one an AI agent can safely operate — update, maintain, audit, and fix. Once the site is connected to Aura and its approval key is provisioned, mutating actions are gated behind human approval and recorded in a full audit trail; safe batch updates and block edits are snapshotted so they can be rolled back. It's the on-site half of [Aura](https://my-aura.app), the governed control room agencies use to run whole fleets of client sites alongside their servers, CDN, and DNS. Plugin and core updates are the riskiest thing you do on a live client site. SiteAgent makes them safer: safe batch updates run behind health checks and **roll back automatically** if the site breaks, and every plugin in that path is zip-snapshotted first. With Aura's approval key in place, an agent can't silently push a change — mutating actions wait for a human to approve them. Think of it as the undo button for AI on your clients' sites. Install this plugin on any WordPress site to connect it to Aura — no SSH, no wp-admin juggling, no manual logins. = What You Can Do = * **Monitor site health** — See WordPress version, PHP version, installed plugins & themes, database info, and disk usage in real time. * **Update plugins, themes & core remotely** — Push updates to any connected site from the Aura dashboard, no wp-admin login. * **Safe batch updates with auto-rollback** — Run chunked updates with health checks; if an update breaks the site, the plugin restores the previous version automatically. * **Per-plugin rollback** — Every update is zip-snapshotted first; restore any plugin to its last good state on demand. * **Bulk translation & database upgrades** — Update all language packs and run WordPress database migrations remotely. * **One-click connect (magic link)** — Connect a site to Aura straight from wp-admin — no manual token copy/paste. * **AI-agent ready (27 MCP tools)** — Exposes machine-readable, JSON-schema tools for AI-driven management, including SEO/accessibility/performance/broken-link auditors, on-site SEO-meta read/write (Rank Math, Yoast, SEOPress), and Gutenberg block read/edit. Read tools run on demand; mutating tools are approval-gated through Aura, and every call is audited. * **Zero frontend impact** — The plugin only registers REST API endpoints. No scripts, no styles, no database queries on visitor-facing page loads. = How It Works = After activation, click **Connect to Aura** on the **Settings → SiteAgent** page for a one-click magic-link connection, or copy the Site Token shown once and paste it into your Aura dashboard manually. From that point, Aura communicates with your site over a signed, authenticated REST API to pull health data and push updates. = Security = Defence-in-depth protects every request: 1. **WordPress Application Password** — Standard WordPress auth with capability checks (`manage_options` / `update_*`). Only authorized administrators can trigger actions. 2. **Hashed Site Token** — A per-site token sent via the `X-Aura-Token` header. Only a SHA-256 **hash** is stored (never the raw token), compared timing-safely. Tokens from older versions migrate to a hash automatically. 3. **Brute-force throttling** — Repeated bad-token attempts from an IP are blocked. 4. **Signed magic-link connect** — The onboarding callback is HMAC-signed with a one-time secret and timestamp, so the token exchange can't be hijacked or replayed. 5. **IP / Domain allowlist** (optional) — Restrict API access to your Aura instance, with Cloudflare and reverse-proxy header support. You can rotate the token anytime from **Settings → SiteAgent → Regenerate Token**. = REST API Endpoints = Core endpoints under `/wp-json/aura/v1/`: * `GET /status` — Full site health report * `GET /updates` — Check available updates (core, plugins, themes, translations) * `POST /update/core` / `/update/plugin` / `/update/theme` / `/update/translations` — Apply updates * `POST /update/database` — Run WordPress database upgrades * `POST /connect` — Magic-link token exchange (public, HMAC-signed, 10-minute expiry) Version 2 endpoints under `/wp-json/aura/v2/`: * `GET /health` — HTTP, PHP fatal, white-screen and DB connectivity checks * `POST /update/batch` — Chunked batch updates with auto-rollback on health failure * `POST /rollback/{plugin}` — Restore a plugin from its most recent backup * `POST /rules` — Receive Aura's signed operator ruleset; carrying `unbind: true` it ends this site's binding instead While a site is disconnected by Aura, every write endpoint answers `403 aura_site_unbound` and reads keep working; the disconnect answer carries `cleanup_complete` and `leftovers` (what the site still holds), and `GET /status` reports `unbound` until the site is reconnected or the remaining Aura data is removed from the settings screen. MCP tools under `/wp-json/aura/mcp/`: * `POST /tools/list` / `POST /tools/execute` — Enumerate and run AI-agent tools * `GET /context` — Full site context for AI decision-making = AI Agent Tools (MCP) = SiteAgent ships **29 built-in tools** for AI agents. Read tools return information and run on demand; write tools change the site and are queued for human approval through Aura — an agent can never silently mutate a production site. Read tools: * `get_site_context` — WordPress/PHP/theme/plugin/disk/performance snapshot with detected issues * `get_database_info` — Database size, largest tables, autoloaded-options weight, expired transients * `scan_security` — Scored security posture (file-edit lockdown, debug exposure, SSL, default admin/prefix, open registration, PHP version) * `scan_seo` — SEO posture (search-engine visibility, permalinks, XML sitemap, site title) plus a sampled content audit (thin content, missing excerpts/featured images) * `scan_a11y` — Accessibility audit over sampled content (images missing alt text, non-descriptive link text, heading structure, document language) * `perf_check` — Performance posture (persistent object cache, OPcache, page-cache plugin, PHP version, autoload weight, active plugin count, memory limit) * `scan_broken_links` — Link triage over a content sample with no outbound HTTP (empty/anchor-only links, dev/staging hosts, unresolved internal links) * `list_users` — Users with roles and post counts, administrators flagged (never returns secrets) * `check_health` — Live health gate: HTTP status, PHP fatals, white-screen, database connectivity * `scan_error_log` — Tails and severity-groups the error log, surfacing recent fatals * `check_vulnerabilities` — Plugin update-currency check against WordPress.org (a version check, not a vulnerability/CVE feed; covers wp.org-hosted plugins) * `check_core_checksums` — Core-file integrity against the official WordPress.org checksum manifest (modified/missing/unexpected files, fetched over HTTPS only) * `scan_executable_files` — Uploads-directory observations: PHP/executable files, .htaccess overrides, and symlinks (reported, never followed) * `audit_admin_accounts` — Privileged-account facts: administrators with recency, admin capabilities outside the role, application-password counts, multisite super admins * `audit_cron` — Bounded WP-Cron inventory with sub-60-second-schedule and unresolved-callback fact-flags * `audit_mcp_exposure` — Which other MCP servers are registered on this site, and how many abilities pass the discovery rule such a server applies (abilities are registered site-wide, not per-plugin, so a server resolving targets from that registry picks up mutating ones outside SiteAgent's approval path). The counts describe the abilities, not what any server currently serves. Reports only; changes nothing * `audit_rules` — Whether a signed operator ruleset is present and how old it is, 24h block/warn counts, expired-but-listed rules, and the enforcement points in this build. Reports only; changes nothing * `get_seo_meta` — Read a post/page's SEO title, description, and focus keyword from the active SEO plugin (Rank Math, Yoast, or SEOPress) * `list_page_blocks` — Read a page's Gutenberg block structure (block names, attributes, nesting) * `snapshot_get` — Retrieve a stored snapshot of page content (reversible write metadata) Write tools (approval-gated): * `elementor_replay_ability` — Executes an approved held Elementor write (destructive, requires Aura approval): claims the hold, re-judges it against the current ruleset, and runs the original Elementor mutation as the user who asked * `update_plugin_safely` — Backup, update, health-check, auto-rollback on failure * `clear_caches` — Flush object/opcode caches and detected page-cache plugins * `cleanup_transients` — Remove expired transients to reduce autoload bloat * `cleanup_orphaned_assets` — Find and remove unused media (dry-run by default) * `backup_plugins` — Zip-snapshot one or all active plugins as a rollback safety net * `set_seo_meta` — Write a post/page's SEO title / description / focus keyword on the active SEO plugin (Rank Math, Yoast, or SEOPress) — on-site, so it works even when a WAF blocks the plugin's own REST endpoint * `update_page_block` — Update a Gutenberg block's content or attributes (snapshot-first, reversible) * `create_page_from_blocks` — Create a new page from a Gutenberg block spec (draft-first) Tools are classified by verb so the Aura Fleet gateway applies the right risk and approval policy automatically. = Pro: the SiteAgent Power Pack = Everything above is free and ships in this plugin. Agencies that need an agent to *fix* a site — not just report on it — can add the **SiteAgent Power Pack**, a separate companion plugin that registers higher-capability tools through this plugin's own tool registry. It is **not** included in this download and is **not** distributed on WordPress.org — the tools it adds execute code, so they don't belong in a hosted repository. It comes with the Aura **Agency** and **Studio** plans, or as **SiteAgent Pro**. What it adds: * `read_file` — read a text file from inside wp-content (jailed; refuses wp-config.php). * `db_query` — a single read-only SQL statement (SELECT / SHOW / EXPLAIN), row-capped. * `write_file` — write a file inside wp-content, snapshot-first so it can be rolled back. * `run_wp_cli` — run an allowlisted WP-CLI command, with no shell and no metacharacters. * `execute_php` — run a PHP snippet against the full WordPress API. These are governed harder than anything in the free set, deliberately: 1. **Off until you arm them.** The write and code tools do nothing until the site owner sets an explicit constant in `wp-config.php` for each one. Installing the Power Pack alone enables no writes and no code execution. 2. **Human approval, cryptographically enforced.** Once the site holds Aura's approval key (provisioned when you connect the site), each of these calls requires a single-use, signed grant bound to that exact tool and its exact parameters — one only the Aura dashboard can mint, after a human approves the action. A leaked Site Token cannot run them. (Until a site has that key, the gate is dormant — so connect the site from Aura before arming anything.) 3. **Reversible where it can be.** File writes are snapshotted first, so there's a previous state to restore. The safety model is governance, not a sandbox: `execute_php` is powerful by design. The controls are the constant you set, the human who approves the call, and the audit trail — not a promise that arbitrary code is safe. Learn more at [my-aura.app/siteagent](https://my-aura.app/siteagent). = About Aura = Aura is a full-stack operations dashboard by [Digitizer](https://digitizer.studio) that brings servers, applications, DNS zones, and CDN pull zones from Cloudways, Hostinger VPS, Cloudflare, and Bunny.net into a single unified interface. SiteAgent extends that reach into every WordPress installation — so you can manage your entire infrastructure, including WordPress sites, from one place. = Free to Use = The plugin is completely free and open source (GPLv2+). You need a free or paid Aura account to connect your sites. [Sign up at my-aura.app](https://my-aura.app). = Links = * [Aura Dashboard](https://my-aura.app) * [Documentation](https://my-aura.app/siteagent) * [GitHub Repository](https://github.com/Digitizers/SiteAgent) * [Digitizer](https://digitizer.studio) == Installation == = Via WordPress Admin (Recommended) = 1. Go to **Plugins → Add New** in your WordPress admin. 2. Search for **SiteAgent**. 3. Click **Install Now**, then **Activate**. 4. Navigate to **Settings → SiteAgent**. 5. Click **Connect to Aura** for one-click magic-link onboarding — or copy the Site Token (shown once) and paste it into your Aura dashboard manually. = Via WP-CLI = `wp plugin install digitizer-site-worker --activate` = Manual Upload = 1. Download the plugin ZIP from WordPress.org. 2. Go to **Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin**. 3. Upload the ZIP and click **Install Now**, then **Activate**. 4. Navigate to **Settings → SiteAgent** to connect or get your Site Token. == Frequently Asked Questions == = Do I need an Aura account? = Yes, you need an Aura account to connect your WordPress sites. Aura offers a free tier that includes up to 3 WordPress sites. [Sign up at my-aura.app](https://my-aura.app). = Is this plugin safe to use? = Yes. The plugin uses defence-in-depth: WordPress Application Passwords (the same standard mechanism used by the block editor), a per-site token stored only as a SHA-256 hash and verified timing-safely, per-IP brute-force throttling, an HMAC-signed onboarding handshake, and an optional IP/domain allowlist. No data is transmitted unless a request is made by your Aura instance. = How do I enable the approval gate for write actions? = SiteAgent can require a per-action, cryptographically signed approval before it runs a state-changing **MCP tool** (cleanups, cache flushes, SEO writes, safe plugin updates run through the tool interface). Once enabled, each such write must carry a single-use signature that only the Aura dashboard can mint, after a human approves the action — so a leaked Site Token cannot run those tools on its own. This gate turns on automatically once the site holds Aura's approval key, which is provisioned securely during connection. **If you installed or updated the plugin but have not reconnected the site since, the gate is dormant** and the site runs in the standard token-only mode. To activate it, simply **reconnect the site from your Aura dashboard** — no reinstall is needed. Note: the approval gate currently covers the MCP tool path. Core, plugin, and theme updates performed over the plugin's direct REST update endpoints are still authorized by the Site Token alone (the standard site-management model), so treat the Site Token as a sensitive credential regardless. Grant coverage for those update endpoints is on the roadmap. = Does it slow down my site? = No. The plugin registers only REST API endpoints. It does not load any code, scripts, or database queries on frontend page loads. Your visitors experience zero impact. = What WordPress versions are supported? = WordPress 6.2 or higher is required. This is needed for full Application Password support. The plugin has been tested up to WordPress 7.1. = What PHP versions are supported? = PHP 7.4 or higher. PHP 8.0+ is recommended. = Can I restrict which IP addresses can access the API? = Yes. The plugin supports an optional IP whitelist. If configured, only requests from the specified IP addresses will be accepted. Cloudflare and reverse proxy headers (`CF-Connecting-IP`, `X-Forwarded-For`, `X-Real-IP`) are fully supported for IP detection. = Does this work with WordPress multisite? = The plugin is designed for single WordPress installations. Multisite support is not currently available but is on the roadmap. = Where is the Site Token stored? = Only a SHA-256 **hash** of the Site Token is stored, in the WordPress option `aura_worker_site_token` — the raw token is never persisted. It is generated on first activation and shown once so you can copy it; the Aura dashboard keeps the only raw copy. Tokens created by older versions are upgraded to a hash automatically on first use. = Can I regenerate the Site Token? = Yes. Use **Regenerate Token** on the **Settings → SiteAgent** page. The new token is shown once. Regenerating invalidates the old token and disconnects the site from Aura until you reconnect with the new one. = How do I disconnect a site from Aura? = Remove the site from your Aura dashboard, or deactivate or delete the plugin. If you deactivate the plugin, the REST API endpoints are unregistered and Aura can no longer communicate with the site. Since 2.13.0, disconnecting from the Aura dashboard happens in two phases. The site is marked disconnected immediately and refuses every change from that moment on — reads keep working — and Aura then has it revoke the Application Password it minted, clear the stored ruleset and gateway key, and finally delete the site token. If the site was mid-disconnect when it lost contact, it finishes the job by itself on its next page load. = Aura disconnected my site but something is left behind — what do I do? = Open **Settings → SiteAgent**. A disconnected site says so ("Disconnected by Aura at …") and offers **Remove remaining Aura data**, which revokes what is left and clears the disconnect record — but only once everything it names, the site token included, is proven gone. If it tells you it cannot say which user holds an Application Password, revoke it under **Users → Profile → Application Passwords** and try again. Reconnecting the site to Aura also clears the record, after settling what the previous connection still owed. = Does Aura store my wp-admin credentials? = No. Aura uses WordPress Application Passwords, not your main admin password. Application Passwords are scoped specifically for REST API access and can be revoked at any time from **Users → Your Profile** in wp-admin. = Is the plugin open source? = Yes. SiteAgent is open source under the GPLv2 or later license. The source code is available on [GitHub](https://github.com/Digitizers/SiteAgent). == Screenshots == 1. Settings → SiteAgent in wp-admin: site token status, optional IP / domain allowlists, one-click Connect to Aura, and a live connection test. 2. Aura → Apps → Connection tab: connection status, plugin version, release channels (stable / beta), re-test, disconnect, and credential rotation. 3. Health tab: WordPress / PHP / MySQL versions, server info, settings, active theme, and the full plugin inventory with status. 4. Updates tab: SiteAgent rollout control (release channel, auto-update, policy and risk state), update status, and per-plugin database migration status. 5. Fleet AI: the catalog of agent tools every connected site exposes — each tagged Read or Power — runnable across the whole fleet from one control plane. 6. SiteAgent Power Pack: the companion plugin's write and code tools, each off until armed in wp-config.php and approval-gated through Aura. 7. Connections: provider connections (Cloudways, Cloudflare, Bunny, Hostinger, Vultr, xCloud) with resource counts, status, and credential-rotation reminders. == Changelog == = 2.16.2 = * `/status`'s door fragment carries `observation`, a per-site door-version witness bumped atomically by every door-state mutation (never by a mere poll) and clock-floored so a restored backup can never reissue a value it already served, so Aura can order overlapping polls by the site's own witness instead of request timestamps; `elementor.governor` reports the current value. The observation witness requires InnoDB for wp_options and 64-bit PHP; without them ordering falls back to Aura's own request order for that site (`elementor.governor` reports why via `observation_unsupported`: `engine` or `php32`). * `/status` also accepts `door_observation_seen` — Aura's own last accepted observation, echoed back — so the site can bump its witness forward, clock-floored, when a restore rewound its own copy behind Aura's. Accepted for ANY non-negative integer the site's own witness could ever report (no magnitude ceiling — the witness only counts up); honoured only within a fixed headroom below the class ceiling, silently ignored (200, no bump, no error) above it. * `elementor.governor` reports `counters_as_of` beside the four `_30d` rolling counters, which `observation` does not cover; the counters themselves are `int|null`. * `interrupted` / `running` / `held` are `null`, not `[]`, when their own queue could not be read, and `observation` is withheld entirely whenever any read behind the fragment was unreadable. * New `door_write_unsupported` reason `reconnect_guard_unavailable`: a governed write refuses outright on a `$wpdb` replacement that cannot disable reconnects, rather than risk a mutation replaying on a session this plugin no longer controls. * Door writes report a `committed` tri-state (`true` / `false` / unknown) and answer a retryable 503 with `may_have_run: true` whenever a commit cannot be proven — claims, holds, acks, and rotations alike; `replay()` now forwards `claim()`'s own error instead of a generic one. * Hold references and pending log-row reservations are derived from the request's own identity, so a retry after an ambiguous commit finds and reuses its own prior write instead of risking a duplicate. = 2.16.1 = * `/status` door fragment and `audit_mcp_exposure`'s `elementor.governor` carry `binding`, the site's current binding generation, so Aura can label a departed client's door-log entries without inferring the generation from the rows. = 2.16.0 = * Elementor MCP door governance: every write through Elementor >= 4.3's official MCP server is held for approval in Aura unless an operator `allow` rule covers it; `block` refuses; every write that runs is snapshotted first on the site and recorded in a per-site door log Aura drains. New tools `elementor_replay_ability`, `snapshot_get`; new routes `/aura/v1/door/reject`, `/aura/v1/door/ack`; `/status` carries `door`; `audit_mcp_exposure` carries `elementor.governor`. Rules gain the `allow` effect and the `design_system` / `page_create` targets. = 2.15.0 = * audit_mcp_exposure reports an `elementor` block: Elementor >= 4.3's official MCP module state, every `elementor_mcp_consent` row, every `Elementor MCP…` Application Password across all users (full detail), and the other Application Passwords of edit_posts users as counts. Every list is bounded (50 / 50 / 200) with a truncation flag beside it; no usermeta value over 256 KB is decoded; a scan that fails is reported as `{ error }` in its place, never as an empty list. Read-only. * aura_worker_app_password_list() accepts an optional byte bound, enforced in the same statement that returns the value. = 2.14.0 = * Feature: **a self-update can now undo itself.** Before installing, SiteAgent archives its current build — best-effort: a site without ZipArchive or with an unwritable backup directory still updates, and the result says `backed_up: false` so the caller knows this one had no way back. After installing, SiteAgent asks the new build to prove it came up. The proof is written by the build itself: a boot beacon recorded the first time the new code serves a request, and a fatal beacon recorded by a shutdown guard when the new code dies while loading. A build whose own records say it broke is rolled back to the archived one, and compiled copies are asked out of the opcode cache (best-effort — a host that restricts `opcache_invalidate()` may serve the old compiled code until its cache revalidates). The result reports exactly what happened (`backed_up`, `verified`, `rolled_back`). When neither record appears, the update stands and says it was not verified, never guessed. * Feature: **one SiteAgent mutation at a time.** Every path that can replace SiteAgent's own files — the self-update, the generic plugin update, a batch entry, the rollback endpoint — runs under a single per-site claim: taken by a conditional insert, seizable only after its holder has gone silent for ten minutes (a request that dies never releases), and released only by its owner. The self-update additionally renews the claim between its phases, so a slow step costs the lease nothing once the next phase begins. An overlapping request is answered "in progress" and touches nothing. * Hardening: backups follow a symlink only while its target stays inside the plugin folder — a link pointing out of the tree makes the backup report itself incomplete instead of copying unrelated files into an archive. Restores never delete through a symlink, root or child, and refuse to run at all when a link cannot be removed. A package carrying the version already running is refused, because its boot records could not be told apart from the old build's. Backup filenames carry a per-operation suffix, so two backups started in the same second never overwrite each other. = 2.13.0 = * Feature: **Aura can now disconnect a site in two phases, and the site refuses changes the moment it is told to.** When Aura sends a disconnect, SiteAgent records it and every mutation on the site — SiteAgent's own write endpoints, MCP write tools, grant-signed calls, and any WordPress REST write made with the Application Password or site token of the departing connection — is answered `403 aura_site_unbound` until the site is reconnected. Reads keep working, `/status` keeps answering, and Aura's own ruleset endpoint stays reachable so the disconnect can be finished or retried. * Feature: **a departing connection's Application Password stops working everywhere, not just on the REST API.** WordPress authenticates Application Passwords on XML-RPC as well, so a credential the disconnect could not revoke is now refused where WordPress decides whether it authenticates at all. Your own Application Passwords are untouched, and so is admin login. * Feature: **the cleanup is proven, not assumed.** SiteAgent revokes the Application Password(s) Aura minted, clears the stored ruleset and the gateway public key, forgets the connect bookkeeping, and deletes the site token LAST — and only when Aura says the disconnect is final. Every step is idempotent, runs in one fixed order, and continues past a step that failed. An interrupted disconnect finishes itself on the site's next page load (throttled, at most once every five minutes), so a site Aura can no longer reach still converges. * Feature: the answer to a disconnect now names what is still owed: `leftovers` lists the credentials or stores this site could not prove it had released (`app_passwords`, `options`, `ruleset`, `grant_pubkey`), alongside `cleanup_complete`. An empty list means only the shared site token was still outstanding; a non-empty one means Aura must keep waiting. * Feature: **the settings screen tells you when Aura disconnected the site** ("Disconnected by Aura at …") and offers **Remove remaining Aura data** — an admin-initiated teardown that runs the same proven cleanup, and only clears the disconnect record once everything it names, the site token included, is gone. * Feature: manually connected sites (those with no gateway public key, which therefore cannot verify a signed document) can be disconnected with a bare `{ "unbind": true, … }` body on `POST /wp-json/aura/v2/rules`, authenticated by the site token alone. A site that DOES hold a gateway key refuses the bare form and requires the signed envelope. * Safety: every ruleset push now runs under the site-wide claim the connect flow already used, so a push, a disconnect and a reconnect can no longer interleave. A site already busy answers `503 aura_site_busy`, which is retryable. A claim left behind by a killed request is taken over after two minutes rather than blocking the site indefinitely. * Safety: reconnecting (magic link) and **Regenerate Token** now settle the previous connection's outstanding cleanup BEFORE installing a new token, and release the disconnect record only after the replacement connection is installed and read back — so a reconnect that fails halfway leaves the site still refusing the departed connection instead of quietly reviving it. * Fix: a disconnect record damaged in the database is now REPAIRED — rebuilt from the site's own state, under the claim — and then torn down through the ordinary path. Previously a damaged record was a permanent dead end: the site refused every change and no control could clear it. * Diagnostics: `/status` reports `unbound: { at, site_ref }` while a disconnect is outstanding, and `app_password_probe_unproven: { count, at, owner }` when the site cannot prove an Application Password was revoked — the usual reason a disconnect never finishes. Both are bounded and contain no secrets. * New error codes: `aura_site_unbound` (403 — the site is disconnected), `aura_site_busy` (503 — retry), `aura_unbind_incomplete` (409 — something is still owed; the answer lists it), `aura_unbind_unreadable` (409 — the disconnect record could not be read, which is NOT the same as an incomplete cleanup), `aura_unbind_unrepairable` (409), `aura_unbind_marker_stuck` (500 — everything was removed but the record itself would not delete), `aura_unbind_marker_malformed` (500), `aura_unbind_store_failed` (500) and `aura_ruleset_client_mismatch` (409 — a disconnect addressed to a different Aura client), which the bare unkeyed form now checks too. * Compatibility: a 2.13 site that is never sent a disconnect behaves exactly as 2.12 did. Nothing on the site changes until Aura asks for one. = 2.12.0 = * Feature: **a rule can now apply to some of a client's sites instead of all of them.** Aura's signed ruleset names the site each document was issued for, SiteAgent stores that identity, and a rule that lists the sites it applies to is enforced only where it belongs. Rules that name no sites are client-wide exactly as before. * Safety: a site that cannot prove its own identity — an older record, a document issued before this field existed — enforces EVERY rule rather than skipping the ones it cannot place. Scoping only ever narrows on proof. * Upgrade: the identity is recovered offline from the ruleset already stored, by re-verifying its signature locally. No new network traffic, and a site whose ruleset has not changed since the upgrade is repaired on its next request rather than waiting for the next push. = 2.11.0 = * Feature: **the magic-link connect now mints an Application Password for the dashboard.** A magic-link connection could run SiteAgent's own tools but not the builder tools (Elementor MCP and friends) that authenticate with WordPress Basic auth — only a manual connect, which never provisions the gateway key, could. The signed /connect callback now also mints an Application Password named "Aura SiteAgent" for the administrator who created the link and returns it once, in the callback's response, so the dashboard stores it encrypted beside the site token. Every connect rotates it (earlier ones under that name are deleted first). Where Application Passwords are unavailable (no HTTPS, disabled by a filter, no admin user) the connect succeeds token-only as before and names the reason. * The whole install — token, client binding, gateway key, Application Password — runs under one site-wide connect claim, so two callbacks for the same site cannot split the credentials the dashboard ends up holding. "Regenerate Token" takes the same claim (it is refused while a connect is installing). The claim is never taken over by age: a callback the dashboard timed out on may still be running. Every write the install makes — the site token, the client binding, the dashboard URL, the gateway key — is issued by a statement conditional on holding the claim, so a claim that goes away mid-request costs that request its connect (retryable) rather than letting it overwrite the install that replaced it. If a killed request ever leaves a claim behind, every later connect is refused until an administrator deactivates and reactivates the plugin, which releases it. "Regenerate Token" issues its cleanup the same way, and skips revoking the Application Password when it no longer owns the claim — the password on the site then belongs to whichever connect replaced it. It still reveals the token it stored: refusing to would revoke the old token while showing no replacement. * Deactivating the plugin now also revokes the Application Password Aura minted. Unregistering SiteAgent's routes does not stop an administrator-level credential from authenticating to WordPress core and to other REST/MCP plugins, so "deactivated" would not have meant "disconnected". If the revocation fails the owner and UUID are kept, and reactivating finishes the job (activation retries a revocation deactivation could not land), as does uninstalling. The site token binding survives deactivation, so the settings screen keeps showing the dashboard it is connected to. The Connect button is always reachable there, and the line above it says what the site actually holds: a working credential, one that was never delivered, none at all, or a site that cannot issue one (token-only). = 2.10.3 = * Fix (security): **"Regenerate Token" revealed a new site token without ever storing it.** The option was registered as a read-only setting, and the callback enforcing that ran on every write — not only on the settings form — so the handler's write was discarded while the one-time reveal still appeared. Two consequences: an admin rotating a leaked token was told it was revoked when the old token stayed valid, and a site disconnected from the dashboard could not be reconnected, because no token the screen displayed ever authenticated. The token is no longer registered as a setting (it is display-only, so nothing submits it), and regeneration now stores the new hash with a single compare-and-swap, out of reach of any option filter — a token is revealed only when that one statement reports it wrote the row, and a site whose row is missing or empty can be given its first token the same way. = 2.10.2 = * Fix: a site moved from one Aura client to another while the old client's last push was still in flight could end up holding the old client's ruleset and refuse the new client's rules until it was reconnected. The connect callback now names the client the site belongs to (a signed, optional field — older dashboards keep working unchanged) and writes that binding into the ruleset store itself, so a ruleset for any other client is refused from then on, whatever was in flight. = 2.10.1 = * Fix: `audit_rules` could report zero blocked/warned events for the current hour. Reading the counters before the hour's first refusal put the bucket in WordPress's negative option cache, and the refusal's atomic insert did not clear it — so the count stayed at zero for the rest of the request, and on a site with a persistent object cache until the cache was flushed. Enforcement was never affected; only what the audit reported. * Fix: two rulesets pushed to a site at the same moment, before it held any, could answer the loser with 500 instead of the ordinary "a newer ruleset is already installed" decision. Aura retries a 500, so no policy was lost; the site now classifies the database's duplicate-key or deadlock answer as the lost race it is. = 2.10.0 = * New: operator rules, enforced on the site. A rule is an Aura memory entry (`rule/`) naming a resource — the whole site, a page or post by ID, or a plugin by slug — with an effect of `block` or `warn` and an optional expiry. Aura signs the client's whole ruleset with the same key that signs approval grants and pushes it to every connected site (`POST /aura/v2/rules`), the site verifies it and keeps only a newer one (a replayed older ruleset is refused even when validly signed). No ruleset means no policy — nothing is refused. A site that has never been reconnected since signed approvals shipped holds no gateway key and cannot verify a ruleset; it says so, and Aura tells you to reconnect it. * Enforcement runs on every path a write can take: inside the tool executor before anything runs or is snapshotted; explicitly on the legacy REST update routes; and at WordPress core's own REST API for posts and pages — so a rule on a page holds against Aura's content tools, an assistant with an application password, or another plugin's MCP server alike. A `block` refuses the call and names the rule; **a rule outranks an approval** — a granted call is still refused, and the message says to release the rule first. A `warn` runs and attaches the warning. Previews are never blocked; they now report what a call touches and which rule would decide it. * New: `audit_rules` (read-only) — ruleset presence and age, whether the site can verify one, 24h block/warn counts, expired-but-listed rules, and the enforcement points in this build. * Every mutating tool now declares what a call touches; one that does not is caught by every rule rather than by none. = 2.9.1 = * Security (hardening): SiteAgent's tools have been dual-registered as WordPress abilities since 2.5.0, and an ability is published to the SITE rather than to one server — so any co-installed MCP server that enumerates the site's abilities could serve them, including the ones that write. The approval-grant enforcement lives in SiteAgent's own REST handlers, which that route never touches, so a mutating tool could run through another plugin's MCP server with no approval, no snapshot binding, and no audit entry. Two guards close it. Tools that require a grant now declare a discovery type co-installed servers do not serve, and a grant-requiring ability arriving on any transport other than SiteAgent's own is refused unless it carries a valid approval grant bound to that exact call. Nothing changes for the Aura gateway path or for wp-admin: a grant the gateway minted is accepted here unchanged. Read-only tools stay discoverable to other MCP clients, which is what the dual registration is for. Approval-bound reads (`db_query`) follow the write rule, as they already did on the gateway path. = 2.9.0 = * New: a read-only security-audit surface — five tools that report what is on the site without changing any of it. `check_core_checksums` compares WordPress core files against the official manifest, `scan_executable_files` looks for executable files and `.htaccess` overrides under uploads, `audit_admin_accounts` and `audit_cron` inventory administrator accounts and scheduled events. * New: `audit_mcp_exposure` answers a question that only appears once a site runs more than one AI assistant — which OTHER MCP servers are registered here, and how many of this site's abilities pass the discovery rule such a server applies. Abilities are registered site-wide, not to the plugin that declared them, so a server resolving targets from that registry (as Angie's does) picks up mutating ones that never went through this plugin's approval and audit path. The counts are a property of the abilities, not proof that any server currently serves them — a server with an explicit tool list reaches only what it lists. The tool reports; it changes nothing. * All five report bounded coverage — `truncated` and `cap`, alongside a pair of counts naming what was in scope and what was reached (`total_seen` / `returned`, or `files_expected` / `files_checked` for `check_core_checksums`, which counts files rather than rows). They stop at their caps rather than growing without limit on a large site, and an empty result under `truncated: true` means "nothing found before the cap" — it is never reported as "clean". * Compatibility: declared tested up to WordPress 7.1. = 2.8.2 = * Security (hardening): the snapshot/rollback engine now reads its stored payloads back with `unserialize()` restricted to `allowed_classes => false`, so a tampered payload file can no longer instantiate arbitrary PHP objects on the restore path (object-injection defense-in-depth). Restores fail closed on any object-bearing or malformed payload. The restore paths are unchanged for the scalar and array data the engine actually stores. * Fix: the self-updater deletes its temporary download with `wp_delete_file()`, and the SEO auditor reads WordPress core's sitemap state through the sitemaps server instead of re-firing the `wp_sitemaps_enabled` filter. * Internal: PRs are now gated in CI on PHPCS (security/correctness sniffs) and the official WordPress Plugin Check, so regressions in the above are caught before release. No effect on the shipped plugin. = 2.8.1 = * Docs: the listing now describes the optional **SiteAgent Power Pack** companion plugin — the governed power tools (file read/write, read-only SQL, allowlisted WP-CLI, PHP execution) that are deliberately NOT part of this WordPress.org build. It states plainly that the write and code tools stay disabled until the site owner arms each one in wp-config.php, that the site must be connected to Aura first (that provisions the approval key which makes grant enforcement active), and that the model is governance — not a sandbox. No code changes. = 2.8.0 = * Internal: Snapshot-engine primitives for reversible meta and multi-post writes — `snapshot_meta` (post-meta capture with a `meta` restore kind) and `snapshot_posts` (multi-post capture with a `posts` restore kind that recreates a deleted post under its original id). These are groundwork for upcoming governed Elementor and bulk-post editing; they are not yet exposed over the remote snapshot API in this release (which still handles `file` and `option`). * Fix: SEO-meta writes now return a distinct "Failed to write SEO meta" error when a write fails despite input, instead of the misleading "Nothing to update". * Docs: Listing repositioned around governed, reversible AI, with the approval and rollback guarantees scoped to the paths that actually enforce and snapshot. = 2.7.1 = * Self-update integrity: when the Aura gateway supplies the release's SHA-256, SiteAgent now downloads the zip, verifies its bytes against that digest, and refuses to install on a mismatch — so an approved self-update is bound to the exact package, not just the URL. Sites without a supplied digest behave as before. = 2.7.0 = * Approval gate now covers the direct REST write endpoints, not just MCP tools. When a site has provisioned Aura's approval key, plugin/theme/core/translation updates, batch updates, database migrations, rollbacks, self-update, and snapshot create/restore each require a fresh single-use signed grant bound to the exact action and parameters — so a leaked Site Token can no longer trigger a code update on its own. Sites without the key keep working as before (token-only) until they reconnect. * Self-update source allowlist: SiteAgent will only install a self-update zip from the official GitHub repository (Digitizers/SiteAgent release downloads), over HTTPS. Overridable via the aura_worker_self_update_allowed_hosts filter. = 2.6.1 = * Tool self-declaration hardening: six mutating tools (update_plugin_safely, cleanup_orphaned_assets, backup_plugins, cleanup_transients, clear_caches, set_seo_meta) now explicitly declare themselves non-read-only and approval-required instead of inheriting neutral defaults, so any consumer that trusts a tool's own annotations gates them correctly. Grant enforcement and the Aura gateway's verb-based policy already treated them as writes, so live behaviour is unchanged. * cleanup_orphaned_assets now advertises a preview: its dry-run (find orphans, delete nothing) is exposed through the preview API, so the orphaned-media sample and count can be inspected without approval before the destructive delete — which still requires approval. = 2.6.0 = * Signed approval grants (G-grants): every mutating (non read-only) MCP tool reached over the Aura gateway (X-Aura-Token) path now requires a single-use, Ed25519-signed grant that binds the exact tool, parameters, site, and a short validity window — so a stolen site token can only ever run READ tools, never a write or a power op. The plugin stores only the gateway's PUBLIC key, so even a fully compromised site can't mint its own grants; only the gateway can, and only for a human-approved action. The gateway public key is provisioned over the HMAC-signed magic-link /connect callback, and enforcement activates only once it is present, so existing deployments are unaffected until they reconnect. The WordPress Abilities / Application-Password path (capability-gated) is unchanged. = 2.5.0 = * WordPress Abilities API bridge: SiteAgent tools are now dual-registered as WP abilities when the core Abilities API is present, so the official MCP adapter and standard MCP clients can discover them (aura/mcp namespace unchanged). * Hardening (external review): register the abilities category before the abilities (else a real Abilities API rejects them); default a missing input to {} for parameterless abilities; snapshot engine fails closed when a payload/ metadata write fails, uses an uncollidable "absent option" sentinel, and post restore refuses a missing payload instead of wiping the page; Gutenberg update refuses inner_html on a block with nested children and surfaces the inner_html change in its preview; the snapshot REST file endpoint jails targets to wp-content and refuses wp-config.php; AURA_WORKER_VERSION synced. = 2.4.0 = * Gutenberg (block editor) tools: list_page_blocks (read), update_page_block (approval-gated, snapshot-first, reversible), create_page_from_blocks (draft-first). Ends the Elementor-only gap — Gutenberg is core WP. * Snapshot engine gains a "post" kind (snapshot_post) so block edits are reversible. = 2.3.0 = * **Token-only connection** — a valid Aura Site Token now authorizes management on its own. After connecting (magic link or Regenerate Token), the plugin runs requests as the connecting administrator, so Aura no longer needs a WordPress Application Password. Existing app-password connections keep working unchanged. No new tools — the set stays at **18**. * **Forensics hook** — fires `do_action( 'aura_worker_token_run_as', $user_id, $route )` whenever a request is authorized by token alone and run as an admin, so site owners can distinguish token-run-as from interactive admin actions in their audit log. The admin fallback is now deterministic (lowest-ID administrator). = 2.2.4 = * Fix: "Connect to Aura" (magic-link onboarding) now targets the Aura app host (`app.my-aura.app`) instead of the marketing domain, so one-click connect works out of the box. (Sites that set the `AURA_DASHBOARD_URL` constant are unaffected.) = 2.2.3 = * Fix: `set_seo_meta` on Yoast — after writing the meta, the cached Yoast indexable is now invalidated so the frontend serves the new SEO title/description immediately instead of the stale value (previously required a manual save/reindex). * Fix: `perf_check` autoload weight — counts all WP 6.6+ autoload values (`yes`, `on`, `auto-on`, `auto`) instead of only `yes`, so the figure is no longer under-reported on newer cores. * Fix: `scan_broken_links` — the reported counts now reflect the true number of matches; previously they were capped at the 10-item sample limit. Samples remain capped. * Fix: `scan_seo` — missing excerpts now count toward the score (an `excerpts` finding is reported) instead of being tallied but ignored. * Fix: `scan_a11y` document language — verified against the rendered `` attribute of the home page rather than the configured locale, so a theme that omits `language_attributes()` is correctly flagged. = 2.2.2 = * Feature: On-site SEO-meta tools — two agent tools that read and write a post/page's SEO meta directly on the active SEO plugin (Rank Math, Yoast, or SEOPress): * `get_seo_meta` (read) — returns the SEO title, description, and focus keyword. * `set_seo_meta` (write, approval-gated) — sets any of title / description / focus keyword; only the fields you pass change. * Because these run on-site via the plugin's own meta keys (not the SEO plugin's REST endpoint), they work even on sites where a firewall/WAF blocks those endpoints. Built-in tool set is now 18. = 2.2.1 = * Feature: Performance & broken-link auditors — two more read-only agent tools, scored/structured and no-AI-cost: * `perf_check` (read) — performance posture (persistent object cache, OPcache, page-cache plugin, PHP version, autoload weight, active plugin count, PHP memory limit, expired transients). * `scan_broken_links` (read) — link triage over a content sample with NO outbound HTTP: empty/anchor-only links, links to dev/staging hosts, and internal links that don't resolve locally. * Built-in tool set is now 16. = 2.2.0 = * Feature: SEO & accessibility auditors — two new read-only agent tools, scored and no-AI-cost, governed by Aura's risk policy: * `scan_seo` (read) — SEO posture (search-engine visibility, permalink structure, XML sitemap, site title) plus a sampled content audit (missing excerpts/featured images, thin content). * `scan_a11y` (read) — accessibility audit over sampled content (images missing alt text, non-descriptive link text, missing heading structure, document language attribute). * Both run fleet-wide through Aura's Fleet MCP Gateway to catch SEO/accessibility regressions across many sites at once. = 2.1.0 = * Feature: MCP ops toolset expansion — new agent tools governed by Aura's approval/risk policy: * `get_database_info` (read) — database size, largest tables, autoload weight, expired transient count. * `scan_security` (read) — scored security posture (file-edit lockdown, debug exposure, SSL, default admin/prefix, open registration, PHP version). * `list_users` (read) — users with roles and post counts, admins flagged; never returns secrets. * `check_health` (read) — live health gate (home-page HTTP, PHP fatals, white-screen, DB) for wrapping updates. * `scan_error_log` (read) — tails and severity-groups the PHP/WordPress error log, surfacing recent fatals. * `clear_caches` (write) — flush object cache, opcache, and detected page-cache plugins (W3TC, WP Super Cache, WP Rocket, LiteSpeed, Autoptimize). * `cleanup_transients` (write) — remove expired transients to reduce autoload bloat. * `backup_plugins` (write) — zip-snapshot one or all active plugins (rollback safety net) before mutating actions. = 2.0.2 = * Fix: Removed an arrow character from screenshot caption #1 that WordPress.org wrapped in emoji markup inside the image `alt` attribute, breaking the plugin page's HTML. = 2.0.1 = * Docs: readme rewritten for the 2.0 feature set (safe batch updates, rollback, magic-link, MCP), corrected security description, and added v2/MCP endpoint reference. * Docs: fixed admin menu location — the settings page lives under **Settings → SiteAgent**. = 2.0.0 = * Feature: Site health checks — read recent error-log tail, surface PHP/DB/disk status in the health report. * Feature: Plugin rollback & backup — zip-snapshot a plugin before updating and restore on demand if an update breaks the site. * Feature: Magic-link admin access — generate a short-lived one-time login link from Aura for support sessions. * Feature: MCP tools — expose site context, safe plugin updates, asset cleanup, and vulnerability checks to AI agents. * Security: Site token is now stored hashed (SHA-256) instead of plaintext; existing tokens migrate automatically on first use. * Security: Brute-force throttling on token authentication (per-IP failure limit). * Security: Signed magic-link connect — the dashboard callback is HMAC-verified with a one-time secret and replay-protected by timestamp. * Feature: Regenerate Token button under Settings → SiteAgent. * Fix: Core database upgrade now reports real failures instead of always returning success (verifies db_version reached the target). * Improvement: Tested with WordPress 7.0. * Compliance: WordPress.org Plugin Check fixes — WP_Filesystem usage (no direct file_put_contents), gmdate(), wp_delete_file(). = 1.3.5 = * Security: Enhanced authentication with timing-safe token comparison. * Feature: Added optional IP whitelisting for restricted API access. * Improvement: Support for Cloudflare and reverse proxy headers in IP detection. * Fix: Improved compatibility with WordPress 6.7. = 1.3.0 = * Performance: Optimized REST API endpoints for faster health reports. * UI: Updated admin interface under Tools for better clarity. = 1.0.0 = * Initial release. * REST API endpoints for site health, available updates, core/plugin/theme/translation/database updates. * Auto-generated Site Token. * Admin page under Tools → SiteAgent. * Zero frontend performance impact. == Upgrade Notice == = 2.10.3 = * Fix (security): **"Regenerate Token" revealed a new site token without ever storing it.** The option was registered as a read-only setting, and the callback enforcing that ran on every write — not only on the settings form — so the handler's write was discarded while the one-time reveal still appeared. Two consequences: an admin rotating a leaked token was told it was revoked when the old token stayed valid, and a site disconnected from the dashboard could not be reconnected, because no token the screen displayed ever authenticated. The token is no longer registered as a setting (it is display-only, so nothing submits it), and regeneration now stores the new hash with a single compare-and-swap, out of reach of any option filter — a token is revealed only when that one statement reports it wrote the row, and a site whose row is missing or empty can be given its first token the same way. = 2.10.2 = * Fix: a site moved from one Aura client to another while the old client's last push was still in flight could end up holding the old client's ruleset and refuse the new client's rules until it was reconnected. The connect callback now names the client the site belongs to (a signed, optional field — older dashboards keep working unchanged) and writes that binding into the ruleset store itself, so a ruleset for any other client is refused from then on, whatever was in flight. = 2.10.1 = Fixes audit_rules under-reporting the current hour's block/warn counts on sites with a persistent object cache, and a spurious 500 when two first rulesets race. No change to enforcement. Recommended. = 2.10.0 = Operator rules: write "do not touch checkout" once in Aura and every connected site refuses the matching change — even an approved one — until the rule is released. No ruleset, no change in behaviour. Recommended for every site. = 2.9.1 = Security hardening: tools that change your site can no longer be run through another plugin's MCP server without an approval grant. Recommended for every site, and especially any running a second AI assistant alongside SiteAgent. No action required; the Aura connection and read-only tools are unaffected. = 2.9.0 = Adds five read-only audit tools, including one that reports which other MCP servers are registered on the site and how many of your abilities are discoverable to one — worth running if anything else here exposes an AI assistant. Nothing existing changes behaviour; no action required. = 2.8.2 = Security hardening: snapshot restores now reject tampered payloads instead of unserializing arbitrary objects. Recommended for all users. No action required. = 2.8.1 = Documentation only — the listing now describes the optional Power Pack companion plugin and its governance model. No code changes; no action required. = 2.8.0 = Internal snapshot-engine primitives (groundwork for reversible Elementor and bulk-post editing, not yet exposed over the API) and a clearer SEO-meta write-failure error. No action required; existing connections keep working. = 2.3.0 = Token-only connection: the Aura Site Token alone now authorizes site management. Existing connections keep working — no action required. = 2.2.4 = Fixes one-click "Connect to Aura": the magic-link onboarding now targets the Aura app host (`app.my-aura.app`) instead of the marketing domain, so connect works out of the box. Sites that set the `AURA_DASHBOARD_URL` constant are unaffected. = 2.2.3 = Accuracy fixes for the auditor tools: `set_seo_meta` refreshes Yoast's cache, `perf_check` counts all WP 6.6+ autoload values, `scan_broken_links` reports true totals, `scan_seo` scores missing excerpts, and `scan_a11y` checks page language. No content changes. = 2.2.2 = Adds on-site SEO-meta tools (`get_seo_meta` / `set_seo_meta`) for Rank Math, Yoast, and SEOPress — read and update a page's SEO title, description, and focus keyword, even where a WAF blocks the SEO plugin's REST endpoint. Writes are approval-gated through Aura. = 2.2.1 = Adds two read-only auditor tools — `perf_check` and `scan_broken_links` — for performance and link triage across your fleet. No changes to your site; `scan_broken_links` performs no outbound HTTP. = 2.2.0 = Adds two read-only auditor tools — `scan_seo` and `scan_a11y` — for SEO and accessibility checks across your fleet. No changes to your site; run on demand through Aura. = 2.1.0 = Adds five new MCP agent tools (database info, security scan, user list, cache flush, transient cleanup). Read tools run on demand; cache/transient tools are mutating and gated by Aura's approval policy. = 2.0.2 = Fixes the plugin page screenshot caption rendering on WordPress.org. No code changes. = 2.0.1 = Documentation update — corrected feature list, security description, endpoint reference, and admin menu location. No code changes. = 2.0.0 = Major update: plugin rollback/backup, site health checks, magic-link admin access, and MCP tools. Tested with WordPress 7.0. Recommended for all users. = 1.3.5 = Enhanced security with timing-safe comparison and IP whitelisting. Recommended for all users.