Agents and MCP

Your role.
Your agent's ceiling.

An agent gets no rights of its own on PixelGlass. It acts as the person who connected it, inside that person's role, and every change it makes to a post is a version you can restore.

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Say it to your agent

Publish my harbour festival draft. If my role does not allow it, tell me who can.

  • start_editing_post
  • edit_post
  • publish_post
  • finish_editing_post

Two ways to do it.

By hand

In the admin

  1. Open Settings › Staff to see each person's role: Owner, Admin, Editor or Author.
  2. Give each person the role their agent needs. An author writes drafts, an editor publishes, an admin changes the theme, the menus and the settings.
  3. Open a post in the editor and press History. A change an agent made is marked Via an agent.
  4. Press Restore this version on any version to put it back.

With your agent

In Claude, ChatGPT or your editor

Publish my harbour festival draft. If my role does not allow it, tell me who can.

Fix the typos in “Market day”. If someone has it open, tell me who.

Change the masthead colour to deep red.

The tools it calls

  • start_editing_post
  • edit_post
  • publish_post
  • finish_editing_post
  • edit_theme_file

No agent tool reads the member list, the traffic, the comments or the payments. Those stay in the admin, with the people whose role may see them.

For example

  • An intern's agent

    A magazine's intern is an author. Her agent writes and changes her own drafts, and an editor still decides what is published.

  • The editor holds the pen

    An editor has a post open when his agent tries to write it. The agent is refused with his name, and says so in the chat.

  • A rollback after a bad edit

    A columnist's agent cuts the wrong paragraph. She opens History, finds the version before it and restores it.

Questions, answered

What can an AI agent do on PixelGlass?
What the person who connected it may do. Authors write and change their own drafts, editors publish and change any post, and admins also change the theme, the menus, the site pages, the badges and the settings.
Can an author's agent publish?
No. PixelGlass refuses with a sentence that names the person's role and says to ask someone with the role. An editor, an admin or the owner publishes.
What happens when an agent writes a post I have open?
The write is refused with your name, and the agent tells the person who asked. An agent that marks a post with start_editing_post shows in the editor as writing it.
Can I undo what an agent did?
Yes. Every agent change to a post is a version under your name, marked Via an agent, and PixelGlass keeps the newest 50 versions of each post. A theme's history keeps every change too.
Can an agent see my members or my payments?
No. No PixelGlass agent tool reads the member list, the traffic, the comments or the payments.

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