Working safely with an agent
An agent connected to your Space can change it. Most of what it does is harmless, and a small number of things are not — so it is worth knowing which is which before you start.
Drafting is safe. Publishing is not.
Section titled “Drafting is safe. Publishing is not.”An agent can publish, so say what you want: ask it to leave blocks unpublished and to mark new cubes as drafts. Drafted that way, nothing is visible to customers. You can ask for a dozen cubes, look at them in the cube list — they carry a Draft cube badge — and delete the ones you do not want, with nobody having seen anything.
Publishing is the point of no return. That is the verb to keep for yourself.
Ask before it acts
Section titled “Ask before it acts”The most useful habit is asking for a plan rather than a result.
Look at my product cubes and tell me which ones are missing detail. Do not change anything yet.
Then you decide what to do about it. This costs one extra exchange and prevents almost every unwanted change.
Shared blocks save live
Section titled “Shared blocks save live”A shared block goes live on every cube that uses it as soon as it is saved. There is no unpublished copy.
Ask the agent to show you the change before it saves. You decide whether to apply it.
Show me the shared banner for the home cubes. Do not save it yet.
Never delegate
Section titled “Never delegate”Neither is something an agent is better at than you, and both are expensive to get wrong. Your domain, checkout settings and access are out of an agent’s reach anyway — see What agents can do.
Good things to delegate
Section titled “Good things to delegate”- Auditing your storefront against a standard you describe.
- Drafting content for you to review.
- Answering questions about analytics.
- The same small change across many cubes, once you have checked it on one.
Review what it did
Section titled “Review what it did”After a session where an agent made changes, look at what actually happened rather than trusting the summary. Agents describe their work optimistically.
Check the cubes it touched, in Admin, before publishing anything.