Letting an agent edit real CMS sites: what made people actually trust it
Summary
The Tracy team shares what built user trust in their AI agent that edits real Joomla and WordPress sites: sandboxed copies of sites, single logged write path, per-turn inspectable checkpoints with diffs, named rollback releases, and an act-then-review flow instead of approval prompts. Still in beta, the post closes by asking other builders about their rollback stories for agents that write to real systems.
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