Ask Ai Plugin

Product Description

Ask AI brings a chat assistant right into the Sylius Admin Panel. Instead of clicking through grids, filters and forms, administrators simply ask: "What were the last 5 orders?", "Which products are out of stock?", "Show me the customers from Poland". The assistant looks up the data, answers in the chat or opens the matching admin page for you.

The assistant does more than read. Ask it to disable a product, create a customer group or update a promotion and it prepares the change for you. Nothing is saved on its own: every write is shown in the panel as a proposed action with the exact change, and it is executed only after an administrator clicks Approve. Every conversation and every action is recorded in an admin log, so you always know who asked for what, who approved it and what changed.

Under the hood Ask AI works the store through the tools of the Sylius Admin MCP Server Plugin, acting as the logged-in administrator with their own permissions. It is built on Symfony AI, so you can run it on Anthropic Claude (the default), OpenAI, Gemini, Ollama or any other supported platform.

Perfect for:

• Merchants who want quick answers about orders, products and customers without building reports.
• Store teams that spend a lot of time on repetitive admin tasks.
• Businesses that want to use AI in daily operations while keeping full human control over every change.
• New team members who do not yet know where everything lives in the Admin Panel.
• Companies that need a clear audit trail of AI-assisted actions.
• Development teams that want an AI assistant they can configure, extend and connect to their own model provider.

Key Features

Chat Assistant in the Admin Panel

• Always at hand - the chat panel is available on every admin page and stays open while you navigate.
• Plain-language questions - ask about orders, products, customers, promotions and more, and get answers as text or tables.
• Suggested questions - an empty conversation offers ready-made prompts, configurable per store.
• Conversation history - return to earlier chats or start a new one with a single click.

Smart Navigation

• Open pages by asking - "open the most expensive product" or "edit product X" takes you straight to the right show, edit or list page.
• Filtered lists - "show me the products with 'mug' in the name" opens the grid with the search already applied.
• Follow the change - after an approved action, the panel takes you to the page of what was created or changed.

Human Approval of Every Change

• Proposed actions - every write the assistant attempts is held as a proposal showing the operation, the affected resource and the exact change.
• Approve or reject - changes are executed only after an administrator approves them; rejections are passed back to the assistant.
• Safe by design - deleting data and issuing refunds are never available to the assistant, and you decide exactly which tools it gets.
• Role-based access - the panel is shown only to administrators with the configured role, and the assistant acts with their permissions.

Admin Log

• Conversations - a grid of every conversation with its topic, administrator, state and dates, each one replayable read-only.
• Agent actions - every proposed action with its tool, request, state, who decided and when, plus a snapshot of the resource before the change and the result.

Flexible and Extensible

• Choose your model - Anthropic Claude out of the box, or OpenAI, Gemini, Ollama and other Symfony AI platforms.
• Store-specific instructions - add your own rules to the assistant, such as answer language, SKU format or business terminology.
• Custom tools - give the assistant tools of your own next to the Admin MCP tools.
• Built the Sylius way - Twig Hooks, Sylius grids and resources, Symfony Messenger and Live Components, all customizable with standard Sylius and Symfony mechanisms.

Additional Technical Information

• Requires Sylius 2.2+, PHP 8.2+ and Symfony 7.4+.
• Requires the Sylius Admin MCP Server Plugin and access to the Sylius Admin API.
• Assistant turns run asynchronously in a Symfony Messenger worker, never in the web request.
• Requires an API key for the chosen AI model provider.