Install AI

1. In WordPress, open Plugins → Add Plugin → Upload Plugin, select the current cointacted-ai.zip, and activate it.
2. Confirm Cointacted Social Terminal is active. The AI add-on must not be used as a standalone chat widget.
3. Open Cointacted → AI → Settings. Keep user access disabled while completing the provider check.
4. Start with Demo to verify the terminal commands without an external request or provider charge.
5. Select the production provider preset, then enter its endpoint, API key, and model. For production, prefer the documented wp-config.php constants so the key is not stored in the WordPress database.
6. Open Testing, run the primary connection test, and run ai-setup in the Terminal. The setup command is a dry run; it validates the saved shape without spending provider credit.
7. Configure prompt length, output-token limit, cooldown, daily site limit, per-user limit, access policy, and optional short context before enabling AI for users.

First production check

Open the published Terminal page in a separate low-privilege account and run:

1. ai-status to confirm Enabled, Ready, provider, model, access profile, and current limits.
2. ai what can this terminal do? to verify a normal provider response.
3. ai-reset to verify that the actor's short context can be cleared.
4. ai-mode on, a follow-up prompt, and ai-mode reset to verify the browser preference lifecycle.

Then open Cointacted → AI → Diagnostics and confirm that the request produced aggregate usage without storing raw prompt or response text. Do not publish the integration if the test reports an unsafe endpoint, missing model, authentication failure, or an unexpected fallback.

Production secrets

The supported constants are COINTACTED_AI_PROVIDER, COINTACTED_AI_ENDPOINT_URL, COINTACTED_AI_API_KEY, and COINTACTED_AI_MODEL. Constants override saved fields and make the corresponding administration values read-only. Never paste an API key into a terminal prompt, support bundle, screenshot, or public issue.

Requirements

Cointacted Social Terminal must be installed and active.

Updates should be installed from a verified package while preserving the plugin slug cointacted-ai.

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