Reference
Terminology
A plain language guide to the names and concepts you will encounter across Open for Agents.
Open for Agents
The product family for giving website owners clearer control over what agents may discover and do. Open for Agents Core is for WordPress; Shopify and Any-Web serve separate, clearly described purposes.
Open for Agents Core
The WordPress plugin that discovers, reviews, validates, and publishes the site capabilities an owner approves.
Open for Agents Assistant
The optional visitor-facing client that consumes the same reviewed capabilities published by Open for Agents.
WebMCP
An emerging browser API for exposing page tools to compatible AI clients. Browser support is not universal, and the interface remains subject to change.
Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD)
A draft discovery specification that helps clients find agentic resources before those resources are used through their native protocols. The live Open for Agents demo publishes a currently conformant AI Catalog.
Open Knowledge Format (OKF)
An adjacent portable Markdown knowledge format that Open for Agents is monitoring.
Tool
A reviewed capability an agent can discover or request on the active site, with its inputs and safety policy.
Publication tier
The operator-selected policy that controls which reviewed capabilities and metadata appear in an output.
Storefront Assistant
The live WooCommerce demonstration of search, comparison, approval-gated cart changes, and Undo.
Build-a-Buddy
The lightweight creative demo showing one prompt becoming a sequence of constrained page actions.
Cursed Kitchen
The stateful creative demo showing layered page controls and shareable output.