In this tutorial, the presenter demonstrates the built‑in AI assistant on the xCloud admin panel, showing how it can be used to manage servers and WordPress sites without needing an external AI service. The video walks through the assistant’s UI—conversation history, search, and resizable window—then explains the @‑mention system for selecting servers or sites. A key focus is the permission model: the assistant initially has read‑only access, and the user must explicitly grant read or write rights, with confirmation required for substantial changes. The presenter showcases practical tasks such as checking server health, listing sites on a server, updating all plugins and themes, provisioning a new staging site, and analyzing server logs to identify peak traffic times and generate actionable recommendations. Throughout, the assistant is shown to be capable of any operation exposed by the xCloud API, and the presenter encourages viewers to experiment and share their experiences.
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In this video, I want to tell you about a cool new feature on the xCloud admin panel, and that's an AI assistant. I'm going to show it to you right here in the panel. In the top right, there's this little cloud. If you click it, this thing pops out that looks like a chatbot that gives you poor support, but I can assure you it is not that. Not long ago, I did a video about the API available for xCloud and about how you can hook up your favorite AI assistant, like Claude or ChatGPT or anything, and do whatever you need to via that. This is that AI assistant, so you don't need to connect your external one anymore. It's just there, ready for you, and it can do anything that the API can do. So let me show you how it works. There aren't really any tricks to knowing how to use this. You just talk to it and you tell it what you want. There are a couple of elements I want to point out. Uh, here at the top, you can see these 3 things here. These are previous conversations I've had. So you can have multiple conversations. You can use this plus to add new ones. You can use this little timer here to see past ones and to search through them. And You can make this window much, much larger and see what's over here. So I'm going to do some things and you can see how it works. So I'm going to say, tell me about the health, and I'm going to ask about a server. And to help you be precise, you can type@ and it pops up this list. And so there are my servers. And also sites. So you can pick from the list, or you can just keep typing and it narrows it. So tell me about the health of Topher's server, and here's what we get: one core, one percent used, how much RAM I'm using, how much disk I'm using, and what services I have. So now I want to say what sites. Are on Topher's server. Now, this is an important element. It doesn't have access to the API yet. xCloud did not just decide arbitrarily to give an AI assistant access to all your stuff without your permission. You need to give it access. So that's what it's asking for here. And I'm going to say allow. And there we go. I'm going to, in another tab, show you my access. So the assistant has access to only read. So I'm going to do something in a few minutes that will require write. And so I'm going to come in here and give it write access also. So this is pretty important. Xcloud doesn't just give arbitrary access to an AI assistant without your permission. And within here you can limit even what read and write access there is. So there is control. It's not just a free-for-all. And I'm going to look at cybernate360.com. So, so you can use the@ thing to get Uh, sites as well as servers. So this is still using the read access. Uh, it says there are 6 updates available. Wow, 12 themes installed, all updates available. I'd forgotten I had that many themes. So I'm going to say update all plugins and themes on Cybernate 360. Now, if I had left my API access at read, this is another point where it would stop and say, I can't do that, I don't have permission, and I would be able to grant it. It also, as you can see, requires approval for substantial changes. So I'm just going to click confirm. All right, so it's working. We can move on from here. Now you can also build stuff. So I'm going to say— and here it is again asking good questions. Is this staging or live? I'm going to choose staging, but if I had chosen live, then we would go through the process of what domain name and Who's running SSL and do you want Cloudflare and all that stuff? So I'm going to click staging right here and here is what's going to happen. So I'll click confirm and here we go. It's provisioning. We're at 5% now. As you may recall, provisioning a new site can take a few minutes. So this is where you could start a new conversation and do something Completely unrelated. And there we are, the site's ready. I'm going to click Open Site Dashboard, and there we are. Let's visit the site, and it should be a vanilla WordPress site. Sure enough, there it is. So the first thing I want to do is know some information about the server itself. So there we go. What time of day does the HeroPress Sites server get the most traffic? Let's see. So what this is doing is analyzing log files. Now I can look at log files and I might even be able to get some good information out of them, but a good AI assistant is going to be able to really understand what's going on and present data in a usable, readable way. So it's checking the server logs, the server usage history, and there's a report. So I'm going to use this little gadget at the top, make this much bigger. So xCloud has no server-wide request counter, but the average CPU spikes from 10 PM to 1 AM. The next question is going to be what time zone? Uh, quietest hours and interpretation: late night traffic is the highest. So recommendations: check for, uh, the server cron jobs, etc. So let's see, heropress.com is set to UTC because it's so international. I just picked that. Okay, so it is UTC. So I live in Eastern Time. In the US. So telling me that it happens late at night doesn't happen— or doesn't help for me. So the busiest windows convert to 5 PM to 8 PM Eastern time. So my evening. That sort of surprises me because I would expect it to be more during the day in the US, but I guess that's the daytime for the West Coast. But that's a great example of being able to analyze server-level logs. To look at system resources, et cetera. So as you can see, you can do a ton of stuff, uh, and literally anything the API can do. Uh, if you want to know more about that, there's great documentation about the API. I made a video about it. It's really cool. It's really slick. It does a lot of stuff. Um, and I want to reiterate, this is not just a chatbot. This is a full-on AI assistant. It can make suggestions on how to do things. There's just, there are a ton of options. So give it a shot. If you do something cool with it, please leave a comment on this video because I want to hear about it. I'm really excited to hear what happens with this. So have a good time.
