Docs AI Agent OS Business Brain

Business Brain

The Business Brain is your store’s written knowledge for AI agents: your returns and shipping pages, a summary of your WooCommerce settings, what each plugin does, and documents you upload. Agents look things up here instead of guessing, and each agent reads only what you allow.

AI Agent OS → Business Brain

The screen has five tabs: Overview, Sources, Entries, Collections and Review.

Overview: What Your Agents Know

Business Brain Overview with the knowledge tiles, Store policies and Add another page

The top of the Overview shows how many items your agents can answer from, how many plugins were read, and how many entries come from your pages, the bundled documentation and your store settings. Click Read everything again if the knowledge looks out of date — your settings, bundled documentation and pages are read again at once, and plugins over the next few minutes.

Store Policies

Choose which page is your Terms & conditions, Refunds & returns and Privacy policy. The choice is saved straight away into WooCommerce’s own settings, so agents answer from the same page your checkout links to. A READ badge means the page is published and in the Brain; NOT READ means it is not set or not published.

WooCommerce creates a draft Refund and Returns Policy page during setup. If the badge says NOT READ with a draft note, click Publish it — a draft page cannot be read by shoppers or agents.

How to Add Your Pages

  • In the Add another page card, tick the pages and posts that hold answers — FAQ, shipping guide, size chart.
  • Use Search pages and Show selected only to find and review your choice.
  • Optionally tick Read every published post to include blog posts automatically as they are published.
  • Click Save selection.

Only published pages without a password are accepted. Once chosen, a page stays up to date by itself: editing it updates the knowledge, and unpublishing or trashing it removes it. The In your own words list shows the start of each chosen page and your store settings, exactly as agents will read them.

In your own words list of chosen pages and store settings, the page checklist, and Your plugins
If a user who cannot edit others’ posts (for example an Author) edits a chosen page, the change waits on the Review tab and agents stop quoting that page until you approve or reject it.

Your Plugins

For each plugin the Brain has read, what your agents can answer about it. CURATED means hand-written documentation is used; Only read in part means reading stopped at a size limit.

Your plugins table listing what agents know about each plugin, with the CURATED badge

Sources

Business Brain Sources: Your pages, Store settings and Installed plugins
SourceWhat it does
Your pagesThe pages you chose on the Overview.
Store settingsTurns your WooCommerce settings — where you sell and ship, shipping costs, currency, checkout rules — into one plain-English entry. Updates automatically when you save WooCommerce settings.
Installed pluginsReads each active plugin’s files (without running them) and writes short entries about what it does. Big plugins are read a little at a time in the background; click Run a step now to speed it up.
Bundled documentationHand-written documentation that ships with the plugin, currently for WooCommerce. Click Use this site’s own knowledge if your copy of that plugin is customised.
Markdown filesUpload .md files or a .zip of them. Each file becomes one entry. Optional front matter can set the title, section and collection.
Business Brain Sources: installed plugins, bundled documentation and Markdown files import
Uploaded Markdown documents are used straight away without review. Check the text before you upload.

Entries, Collections and Review

  • Entries — every piece of knowledge, with filters by source, section and status. Click View to read exactly what an agent would get. A DRAFT or REPLACED BY BETTER SOURCE entry is never read by agents.
  • Collections — labelled groups of documents, such as Support policies, marked Public (may be shown to shoppers) or Internal (staff assistants only). Documents join a collection through their front matter. Click Choose agents under a collection to tick which agents may read it.
  • Review — changes waiting for you: an edit to a chosen page by someone who cannot edit other people’s pages (an Author), and AI-written plugin descriptions if you use them. Agents do not read a waiting entry until you click Approve. Reject puts the previously approved text back.
Business Brain Entries with source, section and status filters and a View button per entry
Business Brain Collections with the Agents that can read it column, the Choose agents list open, and the form to add a collection
Business Brain Review tab explaining what waits for review, with nothing waiting

Which Agents Can Read What

To look things up, an agent needs a Read grant on the Business Brain’s tools — Search knowledge and Get knowledge entry — in its Permissions. Then:

KnowledgeWhich agents can read it
Pages you choseEvery active agent. Ticking a page means “agents may quote this”.
Store settings and plugin documentationAgents that hold a grant on one of that plugin’s tools. Technical detail (hooks, REST routes) only for agents that act for the store administrator.
Markdown documentsAgents ticked for that document’s collection (Collections → Choose agents). The Support, Shopping, Fulfillment, Supplier and Store Admin profiles already allow common collections such as faqs, store-policies and shipping-sop.
Internal collectionsOnly agents that act for the store administrator, or that you ticked for that collection.

Knowledge always reaches an agent marked as quoted text, so an instruction written inside a page — such as “cancel all orders” — is repeated, never obeyed. Secret-looking strings are removed before text leaves your site.

Upload your FAQ as Markdown with collection: faqs in its front matter, and agents created from the Support or Shopping profile can read it with no extra setup.