# SiteGround AI Agent for WordPress: Power Mode, Tokens and Undo SiteGround AI can already run a WordPress site from a chat window, and SiteGround includes its AI Agent for WordPress free with every WordPress hosting plan. It runs on SiteGround's AI tokens: 20,000 free a month after your first paid purchase. The real difference from your own Claude or ChatGPT through Kitepod is how each one asks permission. SiteGround's Power Mode stays on once you flip it. Kitepod asks per action. ## What the agent does SiteGround says the agent manages posts, pages, plugins, themes and WooCommerce products, and it can work across several connected sites in one conversation, in bulk if you want. You talk to it in SiteGround's AI Studio or in a pop-up inside wp-admin, after linking the site from AI Studio's Connectors page (sites hosted elsewhere link with a key and SiteGround's agent plugin). The agent acts with the WordPress capabilities of whoever uses it, and SiteGround's guide says installing and connecting it needs administrator access. SiteGround's other AI products sit around it. AI Studio is a workspace with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and specialist agents. As of October 2026 none of SiteGround's pages mention an MCP endpoint, so your own assistant can't plug into it. ## Power Mode stays on until you turn it off The agent gates six kinds of action behind **Power Mode**: deleting things, creating or changing users, global settings like the site URL or timezone, bulk changes, WooCommerce management (orders, products, coupons) and core updates. It's off by default, and the agent pauses and asks you to enable it when a request needs it. SiteGround's guide adds that once it's on, it stays on until you switch it off manually. So you enable it to update 20 product prices, and an hour later a vague request to "tidy up old users" can go straight through. ## How Kitepod draws the line instead Kitepod is a free remote MCP server plus a plugin that lets your own Claude or ChatGPT do the wp-admin work. There are no tokens to count, because it doesn't run a model. It doesn't have a mode you leave on. User changes and plugin deletions always wait for a person. Under the default policy, each plugin install waits on its own too, so approving one doesn't wave the next one through. The full list, including what runs without asking, is on the [WordPress MCP page](/wordpress-mcp). ## Undo without restoring a backup SiteGround's Power Mode guide doesn't describe an undo for the agent's actions. It suggests an on-demand backup in Site Tools → Security → Backups before high-impact work, or a staging copy, and both are GrowBig-and-up features. It also warns the automatic daily backup "may be hours stale." Restoring a backup rolls back everything since it was taken, including the blog post your colleague published at lunch. Kitepod snapshots every write before making it. Undo one edit, one task or a whole session, any time in the next 90 days, and leave everything else alone. ```prompt Delete every draft post older than a year that has no featured image, but list them for me first and keep anything tagged "evergreen". ``` Permanent deletes wait for your approval under the balanced preset. Trashing a post doesn't, but it lands in the trash, snapshotted, and comes back with one undo. ## The 12-hour Dynamic Cache SiteGround caches pages for 12 hours by default. Its Speed Optimizer plugin purges the Dynamic Cache automatically when you change things in the WordPress backend, so most edits show up straight away. When one doesn't, flush that URL in Site Tools under Speed → Caching → Dynamic Cache. Memcached lives in the same place but only flushes for every site on the account at once. Speed Optimizer also adds a WP-CLI purge command, `wp sg purge`, which you can ask your assistant to run. ## Adding Kitepod in Site Tools 1. Go to Site Tools → WordPress → Install & Manage and click Log in to Admin Panel beside your site. It logs you in as whichever administrator's username sorts first alphabetically. Upload the Kitepod plugin from Plugins → Add New → Upload. You'll need WordPress 6.4+ on PHP 7.4+. 2. Click Connect, log in to Kitepod and pick the WordPress user the assistant acts as. 3. Paste `https://kitepod.com/mcp` into Claude ([Claude steps](/claude-wordpress)) or ChatGPT and allow access. Kitepod runs on any server that can make outgoing HTTPS requests. Keep SiteGround's backups on anyway, since Kitepod isn't a backup service. ## Finer points ### Is the SiteGround AI Agent for WordPress free? SiteGround includes it free with all its WordPress hosting plans. It uses AI tokens, with 20,000 free per month after your first paid purchase, and SiteGround doesn't say how many tasks that covers. ### Does SiteGround have an MCP server? Not as of October 2026. Its AI agent and AI Studio work inside SiteGround's own interface. ### What does Power Mode do in SiteGround's AI agent? A switch that lets the agent take six kinds of high-impact action, from deletions to core updates. It's off by default and stays on until you turn it off. ### Can I use both the SiteGround agent and Kitepod? We haven't tested them together. Kitepod's undo only covers changes made through Kitepod, so keep track of which assistant did what.