The headline
Installing the AcrossAI Abilities Manager add-on now just works.
Before this release it changed nothing you could see: your server still offered the same few tools,
and nothing told you the larger set had arrived. Getting it took four undocumented steps — open
Tools, change Server type to AcrossAI, confirm, then press Reset to Type Defaults.
The cause was that the AcrossAI type shipped with an empty tool list, because this plugin didn't
know what belonged on it until the add-on turned up and said so. It knows now, so the list is
written down in advance and the tools start working the moment the add-on is activated.
What you'll notice
A second server appears. AcrossAI, at /acrossai/mcp, carrying the toolsets from the start.
It arrives disabled and listed after Default MCP Server — nothing is served until you enable it,
and that's your decision. Don't want it? Disable or delete it.
A fresh install used to create that server with no tools at all. Found by installing on a
genuinely new site rather than by resetting an existing one: the plugin created its servers before
creating the table their tool selections live in, so every selection was written into a table that
didn't exist — and the write reported success. Sites already affected repair themselves on the next
wp-admin page load. A server you curated yourself is left alone.
The Tools tab shows what your server is configured with, not what it happens to be serving right
now — a server carrying fifteen tools could read "Added as tools (1)". In the same screen: Reset
to Type Defaults, Enable All, and even adding a single tool could quietly delete the rest of
your selection; the picker offered tools belonging to a different server type; and changing Server
type appeared to work but reverted on the next page load.
A server can be enabled before its add-on is installed, and says what it's waiting for.
Previously it couldn't be switched on at all, which broke Quick Connect for exactly the person
who hadn't installed the add-on yet. Quick Connect still won't hand over a client configuration
until then, and says why.
You can write your own connect message. Every server sends a short briefing to an AI client when
it connects. The Overview tab now offers System default (recommended) or Custom,
prefilled with what your server sends today.
A quieter admin. Warnings about a missing add-on appear only once a server is actually enabled.
Tools waiting on a plugin read as ordinary rows rather than a column of apologies. Overview no
longer repeats the client list and credential notes that belong on the Connect tab.
Every existing server gains Server guide — a one-time addition for servers created before it
existed. Your own tool selections are untouched.
The Backups toolset is removed. It was the one toolset named after a category rather than a
plugin, covering UpdraftPlus and All-in-One WP Migration together, while every other integration is
named for the plugin it serves. Being rebuilt as one toolset per backup plugin; the backup abilities
themselves are unchanged.
Under the hood
This plugin now owns the Toolset layer — the dispatchers behind toolset/content, toolset/users
and the rest — instead of the add-on. Nothing changes for you: on a site running both, the
add-on's copies still win and this plugin's stand down. The abilities themselves haven't moved.
Upgrading
No database change. Schema stays at 1.1.7; no table is added, altered or removed. The new
server is an ordinary row, written on the first wp-admin page load after updating.
Verified against a 0.3.5 install — both existing servers gain the guide, the AcrossAI server appears
disabled with its toolsets, and no enable state or existing selection is touched.
Full changelog: changelog.txt, shipped with the plugin.