IKAROS Ai Commerce Infrastructure

Ikaros helps AI assistants and AI shopping agents understand your products so they can recommend them to users. It generates AI-friendly product data and discovery endpoints for WooCommerce stores. Features

• AI Commerce Manifest for machine-readable product data.
• AI Product Optimization to generate short AI-friendly product descriptions.
• AI Bot Analytics to track AI and crawler visits.
• AI Protocol Support including AI commerce manifests, MCP tools, and discovery endpoints.
• AI Visibility Score based on bot activity, product coverage, content quality, and crawl frequency.
• AI Policy Control to allow or block AI bots and crawlers.

Pro features

• Bulk AI Optimization for catalog-wide updates.
• Vision AI Product Descriptions generated from product images.
• Advanced analytics and AI performance insights.

Privacy This plugin can log visits from known AI crawlers. Logging is disabled by default and can be enabled in Settings > Features. Stored fields in bot logs:

• Bot name (detected from user agent)
• User agent string (truncated)
• Visited endpoint/path
• Request method
• Timestamp
• Product ID (when applicable) Cookie usage:
• ikaros_bot_ref (30 days) may be set when AI-assisted buy links are used, to support AI-attributed checkout flows. No analytics JavaScript or third-party tracking pixels are injected on the frontend by this plugin.

Site owners are responsible for configuring consent/privacy notices as required by local law.

2.3.2

• Fixed: Activity Log now shows shopping query parameters for add-to-cart and buy-link traffic instead of hiding that signal behind the intent label.
• Fixed: Activity Log now prefers canonical product URLs when a product ID can be recovered from the log row or shopping query parameters.
• Improved: Category and tag endpoint display now uses canonical term paths when terms can be resolved.

2.3.1

• Fixed: Dashboard analytics query blocks hardened for WordPress.org PHPCS compatibility across supported WordPress versions.
• Fixed: i18n translator comments and SQL lint compliance improvements in admin analytics rendering.
• Fixed: Admin dashboard stability update for analytics query parsing.

2.3.0

• Security: Added signed write request verification for ACP/AJAX write surfaces, including timestamp freshness checks, replay protection, and stronger write authorization flow.
• Security: Added optional agent-key write path (X-Ikaros-Agent-Key) for ACP and AJAX commerce actions.
• Security: Added one-time automatic generation of missing security secrets/keys during activation and early runtime initialization.
• Added: Public ACP Mode guardrails with honeypot protection, optional captcha enforcement, and strict per-minute/per-day per-IP throttling.
• Added: Built-in captcha verification support for Cloudflare Turnstile and Google reCAPTCHA v3.
• Added: Settings controls for Public ACP mode, captcha provider/secrets, and quota/rate-limit configuration.
• Changed: Manifest auth metadata extended for agent-key and hardened write-auth expectations.

2.2.9

• Security: Removed public checkout nonce exposure from manifest and REST manifest discovery payloads.
• Security: Mutating REST routes (/mcp/call, ACP write actions, and checkout session write actions) now require authenticated access via logged-in session or shared API key.
• Security: Added transient-based rate limiting to mutating REST and AJAX commerce endpoints to reduce abuse and request flooding.
• Changed: Checkout API metadata now advertises shared-key authentication (X-Ikaros-Key) instead of public nonce fields.

2.2.8

• Fixed: Bot tracking allowlist now matches encoded REST route requests (rest_route=%2F...) for Ikaros namespaces and MCP/UCP/ACP paths.
• Fixed: “API Endpoints Visited by Bot” query now matches both plain and encoded rest_route forms, ensuring REST API rows appear reliably across hosting/cache setups.

2.2.7

• Fixed: “API Endpoints Visited by Bot” now includes /wp-json/ikaros/ and encoded rest_route endpoint patterns, so capabilities and protocol API hits are visible in the API table.
• Improved: Bot logging now uses both parse_request and template_redirect (single-write guard) for broader request coverage, including REST requests.
• Improved: API analytics cache is invalidated immediately after bot log inserts so new endpoint rows appear without delay.

2.2.6

• Fixed: Bot visit tracking now runs on parse_request, ensuring REST API endpoint hits are logged reliably (not only template-driven frontend requests).
• Fixed: Free tracking allowlist now includes /wp-json/ikaros/ and equivalent rest_route patterns so capability and protocol endpoints appear in API endpoint analytics.

2.2.5

• Fixed: Free bot tracking now logs technical AI endpoints (/wp-json/ikaros-ai-manifest/, /wp-json/aigentic/, MCP/UCP/ACP paths, llms.txt, and manifest/feed endpoints) when tracking scope is products-only.
• Improved: "API Endpoints Visited by Bot" dashboard section now captures and displays API activity more reliably.

2.2.4

• Added: New AI store capabilities endpoint at /wp-json/ikaros/v1/ai-capabilities exposing active protocols and AI capability flags.
• Changed: Manifest plugin_type value updated to Ikaros Ai commerce layer across manifest outputs.
• Fixed: Fallback manifest endpoint handling now returns explicit HTTP 200 for /ai-commerce.json.

2.2.3

• Added: Agentic Checkout session endpoints under REST API for create, update, get, complete, and cancel checkout session flows.
• Added: Idempotency handling (Idempotency-Key) and standardized checkout error responses for session endpoints.
• Added: Session-shaped checkout payloads with line_items, totals, fulfillment_options, messages, and links.
• Added: Manifest discovery metadata for the new checkout session endpoints.
• Added: WooCommerce order creation on checkout session completion with returned order permalink payload.

2.2.2

• Fixed: ACP WooCommerce session bootstrap no longer invokes non-prefixed external hook names, improving WordPress.org PHPCS compliance.

2.2.1

• Fixed: ACP cart-dependent endpoints now initialize WooCommerce session, customer, and cart during REST requests.
• Fixed: ACP add-to-cart, status, and checkout endpoints no longer fail with cart unavailable on stores where REST cart bootstrap was missing.
• Improved: ACP production reliability for end-to-end agent checkout flow.

2.2.0

• Added: ACP endpoints for products search, add-to-cart, checkout, and status under the REST API.
• Added: ACP discovery metadata to the REST manifest (acp_supported and ACP endpoint URLs).
• Changed: Product purchase_url now uses native WooCommerce add-to-cart flow.
• Changed: Added ai_summary, product_category, and categories fields to manifest catalog items.
• Changed: Deprecated custom direct-buy handler hook in favor of WooCommerce-native purchase flow.

2.0.0

• Added: Dashboard page for AI visibility, bot category analysis, and top endpoint/product insights.
• Added: Analytics page enhancements (date range filtering, bot intent classification, activity table, charts, CSV export).
• Added: AI Readiness Score in product list (sortable/filterable column and bulk recalculate action).
• Changed: Renamed "Intelligence" section to "Dashboard".
• Changed: Consolidated free settings and policy controls into one unified Settings page.
• Security: Strengthened nonce validation and request hardening for admin and AJAX flows.

1.1.1

• Security: Removed API key exposure from JavaScript; keys now only transmitted via AJAX POST.
• Security: Added null check for product object in schema injection function.
• Security: Fixed database query preparation for bot log retrieval.
• Compliance: Removed feature gating on bot statistics charts (now always visible to all users).
• UX: Added menu icons in admin pages.

1.1.0

• Feature: Added support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) for AI agents.
• Feature: Added Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) discovery endpoint.
• Fix: Improved security by replacing strip_tags with wp_strip_all_tags.

1.0.0

• Initial release.