Agent Capabilities
What can your agent actually do? This section is a tour of Maxi’s capabilities, grouped by domain — what’s possible in each area, and what it’s good for. Where the Operator Guide covers how to do specific tasks, this section maps out the what.
Maxi works through abilities — discrete actions your agent can call, like “create a post,” “update a product price,” or “generate an image.” You don’t invoke these directly; you ask your agent in plain language and it selects the right abilities to carry out what you asked. This section groups them by domain so you can see the shape of what Maxi can do.
Two things hold true across every capability below:
- Everything runs as your WordPress user. An ability only does what the connected user’s role permits, and changing anything requires an administrator (see Security Model and Manage Agent Users). The capabilities here describe what’s possible; what a given agent may actually do depends on how you’ve scoped it.
- You drive it in conversation. You don’t need to know ability names or pick them yourself — describe the outcome you want, and the agent maps it to the right actions.
Capability domains at a glance
| Domain | What it covers | For example |
|---|---|---|
| AI Generation | Generate text and images, edit images, run them as background batch jobs | “Write product blurbs for these 10 items” / “Generate a hero image for this post” |
| Content | Create, edit, publish, schedule, duplicate, and organize posts, pages, and any custom post type | “Draft a new About page” / “Schedule this post for Monday” |
| WooCommerce | Manage products, variations, prices, stock, orders, coupons, shipping, and tax | “Put all winter stock on 20% off” / “Show me this week’s orders” |
| Taxonomy | Manage categories, tags, and custom taxonomies, and how content is filed under them | “Tag these posts as ‘featured'” / “Create a new product category” |
| Custom Fields | Read and write the metadata attached to posts, products, terms, and users | “Set the ‘vintage year’ field on these products” |
| Media | Upload, organize, and manage the media library, including featured images | “Upload this image and set it as the featured image” |
| Analytics | Read page-view reports — top content, traffic sources, conversions | “What were my most-viewed products last month?” |
| SEO | Set Yoast SEO fields on your content | “Set the SEO description for this category” |
| System & Maintenance | Site info, housekeeping (cache, permalinks), the audit log, and developer tools | “What changed on the site this week?” / “Flush the cache” |
The agent also has a Notes capability — the persistent knowledge, feedback, and operator-instruction system. Because it’s central to how you work with an agent over time, it has its own coverage in The Notes System and across the Operator Guide, rather than a page here.
Availability
A few domains depend on other plugins being active — WooCommerce abilities need WooCommerce, Analytics needs Maxi Web Analytics, and SEO needs Yoast SEO. Where that’s the case, the relevant page says so. AI Generation also needs at least one provider API key set up first (see Add and Rotate Provider API Keys).
In this section
- AI Generation — create text and images with AI.
- Content — the core of managing posts, pages, and custom types.
- WooCommerce — run your store.
- Taxonomy & Organization — categorize and structure content.
- Custom Fields — the metadata behind your content.
- Media — images and files.
- Analytics — understand your traffic.
- SEO — Yoast SEO fields.
- System & Maintenance — housekeeping and introspection.