System & Maintenance

The housekeeping and introspection layer: asking about your site’s setup, keeping it tidy, checking the record of what’s happened, and — for administrators — a set of powerful lower-level tools.

Beyond working on your content and store, your agent can answer questions about the site itself and perform routine upkeep. This domain is less about producing things and more about knowing the state of your site and keeping it running smoothly.

Asking about your site

The agent can introspect your WordPress setup — useful both to you and to the agent itself when planning a task:

• Site info — name, URL, language, timezone, WordPress version, and your Maxi AI version and license status.
• The current user — who the agent is connected as, and that user’s roles.
• Post types and taxonomies — what content types and classification schemes your site has registered, including custom ones.
• Site instructions — any site-specific guidance file you’ve set up for agents.

“What WordPress version am I on, and is my Maxi license active?”
“What custom post types does this site have?”

Housekeeping

For routine maintenance, the agent can:

• Flush the cache — clear WordPress’s object cache.
• Clear transients — remove expired temporary data (or a specific one by name).
• Regenerate permalinks — rebuild the URL rewrite rules, the usual fix after adding a custom post type or changing permalink structure and finding links 404.

“Flush the cache.”
“Regenerate permalinks — some of my new pages are 404ing.”

The audit log

The agent can read the audit log — the permanent, tamper-evident record of what’s changed on your site — and verify its integrity. Because this is a core operator task, it has its own guide: see Read the Audit Log.

License management

The agent can check your license status and, if you ask, activate a license key or deactivate the current one. The how-to lives in Licensing & Entitlements.

Advanced tools (administrator only)

Maxi also includes a set of lower-level, powerful tools intended for administrators and developers. They’re mentioned here for completeness rather than as everyday capabilities, and several are off by default or tightly restricted:

• Run WP-CLI commands — execute WordPress’s command-line tool. Read-only commands work by default; anything that writes must be explicitly enabled in your site’s configuration, and a set of dangerous commands is permanently blocked. Output is scanned and sensitive values redacted before the agent sees them.
• Read and list files — browse and read files inside wp-content/ (for example, to inspect a log when debugging). Sensitive files and credentials are blocked.
• Send email — send a message via WordPress. Disabled by default; an administrator has to turn it on deliberately.
• Data-masking and query-safety controls — manage which personal-data fields are redacted before reaching the agent, and which database columns are off-limits to queries.

These tools are governed by extra safeguards beyond the usual administrator requirement — configuration switches, allowlists, output redaction. The details of how they’re locked down are covered in the Security Model and the Reference section, rather than here. The point for now: they exist, they’re powerful, and they’re deliberately hard to misuse.

What it’s good for

• Quick site facts — version, timezone, license, what types and taxonomies exist.
• Fixing the small stuff — cache flushes and permalink regeneration when something’s behaving oddly.
• Accountability — reading the audit log to see what happened.
• Deep work, carefully — WP-CLI and file inspection for administrators debugging or doing advanced tasks.

In summary: System & Maintenance covers knowing and tending your site — introspecting its setup (site info, users, post types, taxonomies), routine housekeeping (cache, transients, permalinks), reading the tamper-evident audit log, and managing your license. It also includes a set of powerful administrator-only tools — WP-CLI, file reading, email, data-safety controls — that sit behind extra safeguards and are covered in depth under Security and Reference.