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1 === OpenStation ===
2 Contributors: automattic, allterraindeveloper, epeicher, mmtr86, nickhamze
3 Tags: admin, dashboard, desktop, productivity, ai
4 Requires at least: 6.0
5 Tested up to: 7.0
6 Requires PHP: 7.4
7 Stable tag: 1.0.0
8 License: GPLv2 or later
9 License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
10
11 Turn wp-admin into a desktop OS — windows, dock, virtual desktops, and an AI assistant. Per-user opt-in, zero Core changes. By Automattic.
12
13 == Description ==
14
15 **Your WordPress admin, reimagined as a desktop.** Every admin screen opens as a draggable, resizable window — edit a post, browse the Media Library, and moderate comments side by side instead of one page at a time.
16
17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jii_gGbqUx4
18
19 OpenStation is opt-in per user: one click in the admin bar switches you in, one click switches you back. Nobody else on the site sees any change, and deactivating the plugin restores the classic admin exactly. Zero Core patches — every feature runs through public WordPress hooks.
20
21 Built and maintained by [Automattic](https://automattic.com), the company behind WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, and Tumblr.
22
23 = A real desktop =
24
25 * **Windows** — drag, resize, minimize, maximize, snap, tile. Every admin page works, including plugin pages.
26 * **Dock & taskbar** — the admin menu becomes an icon dock; open windows live in a macOS-style taskbar.
27 * **Virtual desktops (Spaces)** — one desktop for writing, another for the store, another for moderation.
28 * **Files on the desktop** — drop posts, media, and links onto the wallpaper, organize them into folders, trash them to the Trash.
29 * **Session restore** — reload the browser and every window comes back exactly where you left it.
30
31 = Make it yours =
32
33 * **Wallpapers** — color presets, animated scenes, or your own image.
34 * **Widgets & desktop icons** — pin live widgets and shortcuts to the wallpaper; plugins can register their own.
35
36 = Superpowers =
37
38 * **AI Assistant (optional)** — press Cmd+K and ask *"Which post had the comment asking for the recipe?"* It searches your own content. Requires an AI provider configured in **Settings → Connectors** (WordPress 7.0+); see "External services" below.
39 * **Corkboard** — an interactive, zoomable map of how your posts, pages, and products link together.
40 * **Cross-window drag & drop** — drag an image from the Media Library window straight into the editor in another window.
41 * **Command palette** — the full WordPress command palette plus slash commands from plugins, all under Cmd+K.
42
43 = Built to be extended =
44
45 Every significant behavior is hookable. Register windows, dock items, wallpapers, widgets, desktop icons, commands, settings tabs, and AI tools from your own plugin — stable `openstation_register_*` PHP APIs, a typed JavaScript API, and copy-paste examples in the [developer docs on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/openstation/tree/trunk/docs).
46
47 = External services =
48
49 This plugin's optional **AI Assistant** sends data to the **AI provider you configure in WordPress's Settings → Connectors** (for example OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google). Generation is routed through WordPress 7.0's built-in AI Client, which supplies the credentials stored in Connectors — the plugin never handles an API key itself. With no provider configured in Connectors, no external AI requests are made.
50
51 When the AI Assistant is enabled and a user invokes it (via Cmd+K or the slash-command palette):
52
53 * **What is sent:** the user's prompt, the conversation history for the active session, and tool-call metadata. The plugin's built-in tools (`search_posts`, `search_pages`, `search_comments`) run WordPress's native keyword search and may include excerpts of the matching posts/pages/comments in tool results, which are then sent back to the provider as part of the agentic loop.
54 * **When it is sent:** on user-initiated AI requests, and (if an administrator enables "Score new comments with AI") on comment-save hooks for spam analysis. Posts, pages, and taxonomy terms are not sent automatically.
55 * **Why it is sent:** to obtain model completions and tool-call decisions that drive the AI Assistant.
56 * **Who provides the service:** whichever provider you configured in Settings → Connectors. Which provider (and endpoint) receives the data depends entirely on that configuration — review the chosen provider's own terms and privacy policy (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google).
57
58 No other external services are contacted by this plugin.
59
60 == Installation ==
61
62 1. Upload the plugin folder to `/wp-content/plugins/`, or install via **Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin**.
63 2. Activate the plugin through the **Plugins** screen in WordPress.
64 3. Click the **desktop** icon in the admin bar's top-right corner. The admin reloads inside the desktop shell.
65 4. Click the same icon again at any time to return to the classic admin.
66
67 = Optional: enable the AI Assistant =
68
69 1. In **Settings → Connectors**, set up an AI provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google). Requires WordPress 7.0+.
70 2. In OpenStation, open **OpenStation Preferences → Features** and turn on **AI assistant** (it's off by default).
71 3. Press **Cmd+K** (or **Ctrl+K**) anywhere in OpenStation to open the AI assistant.
72
73 == Frequently Asked Questions ==
74
75 = Does this change anything for users who don't opt in? =
76
77 No. The classic admin is untouched until a user toggles OpenStation on for themselves. Deactivating the plugin restores vanilla Core exactly.
78
79 = Does the plugin require an external service to function? =
80
81 No. The desktop shell, windowing, dock, taskbar, virtual desktops, widgets, wallpapers, and all extension APIs work entirely on-site. The AI Assistant is the only feature that contacts an external service, and it stays inert until an administrator configures an AI provider in Settings → Connectors. See "External services" in the description.
82
83 = Does it patch WordPress core? =
84
85 No. Every feature is wired through public WordPress actions and filters.
86
87 = How do I disable OpenStation for my user? =
88
89 Click the desktop icon in the admin bar a second time to flip the toggle off. The plugin can also be deactivated globally from the Plugins screen.
90
91 = Where is the developer documentation? =
92
93 In `docs/` inside the plugin, and on [GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/openstation/tree/trunk/docs). The hook reference, JavaScript reference, bridge protocol, and copy-paste examples all live there.
94
95 == Screenshots ==
96
97 1. Real multitasking — Users, Media, and content editing open side by side as windows.
98 2. Your admin, your desktop — custom wallpapers and live widgets registered by plugins.
99 3. The AI Assistant (Cmd+K) answers questions about your own posts, pages, and comments.
100 4. Corkboard — an interactive map of how your content links together.
101 5. OpenStation Preferences — pick a wallpaper preset, an animated scene, or upload your own image.
102 6. Files on the desktop — drag posts, media, and links onto the wallpaper and into folders.
103 7. The Trash collects trashed posts, media, folders, and shortcuts in one window.
104
105 == Credits ==
106
107 OpenStation is brought to you by [Automattic](https://automattic.com). The plugin is open source under GPLv2-or-later; contributions are welcome on [GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/openstation).
108
109 = Third-party libraries =
110
111 The plugin bundles the following third-party JavaScript library, loaded on demand only when a feature that needs it is in use:
112
113 * **[PixiJS](https://pixijs.com/)** (MIT License) — used by the interactive **OpenStation Preferences → About** scene, the **Corkboard** window, built-in canvas wallpapers (e.g. the animated WordPress logo), and the **Inkfall** typing game. PixiJS is loaded from the plugin's own `assets/vendor/` directory; no CDN requests are made.
114
115 = Data files =
116
117 The **Inkfall** game's word list (`assets/games/inkfall/words.txt`) is generated from the following sources (attribution also ships in the file's header):
118
119 * **[FrequencyWords](https://github.com/hermitdave/FrequencyWords)** by Hermit Dave (CC-BY-SA 4.0) — English word-frequency ranking derived from the OpenSubtitles corpus.
120 * **[english-words](https://github.com/dwyl/english-words)** by dwyl (Unlicense) — used as a validity filter.
121 * **[LDNOOBW English list](https://github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and-Otherwise-Bad-Words)** (CC-BY 4.0) — used as an exclusion filter.
122
123 == Changelog ==
124
125 = 1.0.0 =
126 * Desktop Mode is now OpenStation — new name, new look, same plugin. Settings, files, sessions and desktop layouts carry over untouched.
127 * The site folder is now WP Explorer, and OS Settings is now OpenStation Preferences.
128 * A new palette and typography, with four wallpapers: Galaxy (the new default), Space, Holomesh and Pulsemesh.
129 * Desktop Mode (Legacy) — a built-in desktop theme that puts the previous look back in one click, WordPress blue included.
130 * Mio — a soft-body desk companion that drifts across the wallpaper and gets pushed around by your windows. Off by default; turn it on from the dock. It also ships as a standalone script you can drop on any page, WordPress or not.
131 * Holographic controls — switches, primary buttons and selected items catch an iridescent mesh on hover and press.
132 * New Switch component, and a searchable Components tab in OpenStation Preferences.
133 * Select more than one thing at a time — click, Ctrl-click, Shift-click, marquee and Cmd+A on the desktop and in every folder window, with WordPress's own bulk actions and multi-item drag.
134 * Custom post types now appear in WP Explorer, grouped into a folder named after the plugin or theme that registered them.
135 * Post tiles show their featured image instead of a generic icon, which turns a catalogue into a photo grid.
136 * WooCommerce — Orders, Products, Coupons and Customers as browsable folders, with out-of-stock, low-stock, backorder and sale ribbons, and a details pane showing price, stock, order totals, line items and coupon usage.
137 * Open a customer for their lifetime spend, what they buy most and their recent orders, and follow a product to its buyers or a coupon to who redeemed it.
138 * The editor's preview companion follows your typing in the classic editor too, and opens straight away instead of waiting on a save.
139 * Plugins can accept files dropped onto their own desktop icon, via `wp.os.files.registerTilePayloadHandler()`.
140 * The Games leaderboard refreshes the moment a run finishes, instead of waiting for a reload.
141 * Fix the Media Library's uploader button opening a window instead of the inline uploader, and uploaded files not reaching the grid until the window was reopened.
142 * Fix context menus opened near the bottom of the screen running off the edge, which put most of their options out of reach.
143 * Fix Quick Edit and Bulk Edit going dead once a list refreshed in place.
144 * Fix the classic revisions screen opening in a browser tab instead of a window, and restoring a revision leaving a stale editor behind.
145 * Fix closed windows reappearing after a refresh, and window state being lost when several windows were closed in quick succession.
146 * Fix the widget column rendering empty.
147 * Desktop icons and file tiles now fade out in Overview, so they no longer collide with window thumbnails.
148 * Fix `wp.os.activity.subscribe()` never receiving events — channel names containing a slash were silently rejected.
149 * The portal URL moved from `/desktop-mode/` to `/openstation/`. Reinstall the app if you added OpenStation to your home screen.
150 * For plugin authors: `wp.desktop` is now `wp.os`, `<wpd-*>` components are `<os-*>`, PHP functions and hooks use the `openstation_` prefix, and activity channels moved from `desktop-mode/<event>` to `os/<event>`. Stored data — options, meta, custom tables, REST namespaces and the WordPress.org slug — is unchanged.
151
152 = 0.9.8 =
153 * Desktop Themes — uploadable ZIP theme system
154 * Add a Drafts widget
155 * Add a window corner-radius setting (Sharp / Default / Round)
156 * Add editor-preview eye button with live split-view preview
157 * Correct the AI Copilot and settings tab references
158 * Update wp-coding-standards/wpcs to 3.4.1
159 * Strip version-history annotations across PHP, TS, and Markdown
160 * Fix invisible context menus and confirm dialogs (transparent panel background)
161 * Let a desktop theme recommend OS settings
162 * Fix window id plumbing, and restore native windows across a reload
163 * Decode html entities in post excerpts
164 * Fix Recycle Bin Sync
165 * Add Aero Peek preview with snap-back to dock peek
166 * Fix Cmd+K entity search not finding posts in Commands mode
167 * Make the command palette follow the active desktop theme
168 * Redesign the native Comments window as a two-pane conversation view
169 * Keep menu edit links inside the current window
170 * Name desktop objects after things, not after the software
171 * Give tooltips their own two theming tokens
172 * Add an AI writing assistant to the Drafts widget
173 * Fix active tab underline highlight in Appearance Add Theme view
174 * Show the whole component kit in OpenStation Preferences, and make it searchable
175 * Expose dock glyph and focused window control colours as tokens
176 * Overview: show minimized windows in grid to fix badge count mismatch
177 * Decode html entities in recycle bin
178 * Add an admin-bar presentation mode to OpenStation Preferences and the theme system
179 * AI Agents framework: agents as WordPress users, abilities runner, chat with persisted conversations, drag & drop and Send to triggers
180 * Close privilege-escalation and session-bypass paths
181 * Enforce strict structured-output schemas at the provider boundary
182 * Add window reveal animations
183 * Add Popup Siege as a OpenStation game extension
184 * Add SOL Inbound Monologue RSS reader extension
185 * Drop the esbuild CSS syntax warning in the drafts widget
186 * Improve the agents chat and Agents section UX
187 * Contain window-reveal play failures and stop over-promising `owner`
188 * Enhance agent capabilities and HTTP timeout management
189 * Provider robustness — OpenAI strict schema, Anthropic refusals, retries, real request timeout
190
191 = 0.9.7 =
192 * Add Drafts widget
193 * Add Focus Timer widget
194 * Fix window title bar pushed off-screen during top-edge resize
195 * Enforce viewport boundaries during window resize
196 * Fix hiding a dock-placed native window's tile via Apps & Icons
197 * Fix window dragging allowing windows to disappear off right/bottom edges
198 * Folder-upload desktop refresh + inline upload previews
199 * Reset the plugin-update notifiers live after updates run
200 * Decode html entities in widget titles
201 * Fix window drag bounds
202 * Focus Timer: react to the linked window closing
203 * Make the games framework an opt-in Extended option (off by default)
204 * Cut idle server load, boot weight, and package size
205 * Live-refresh Plugins window after install/activate/deactivate
206
207 = 0.9.6 =
208 * Improved button accessibility and visual feedback by implementing the missing busy spinner and aria-busy attributes on the Button component
209 * AI assistant as the shell's ⌘K palette (Commands + Ask AI)
210 * Add pinned notes: paper notes with a pushpin, composed in a Note Pad widget
211 * Improve minimized window UX with restore support and count badges
212 * Surface core admin notices once in the desktop shell
213 * Convert pinned notes into draft posts
214 * Normalize AI Copilot tool schemas for the provider
215 * Add a game system: Games hub, unified scoreboard, challenges, and Inkfall
216 * Keep URL-style menu slugs (ACF) as direct admin links
217 * Add Alphabet Soup game; generalize game infra out of Inkfall
218 * Fix 404 from wallpaper Sort By when a synthetic tile is on the desktop
219 * Fix illegible text fields inside os-modal dialogs
220 * Fix empty custom-gradient editor after re-selecting the wallpaper
221 * Add Related-entities title-bar navigation with open PHP/JS filter surface
222 * Admin bar visibility when fullscreen window is minimized
223 * Allow selecting window from Overview view
224 * Show open window indicators for bottom dock tiles
225 * Add busy state and spinner to os-button
226 * Redesign session-expiry recovery: one login prompt, in-place recovery
227 * Fix folder rename not reflected on the desktop until refresh
228 * Live-refresh list windows on content changes (posts, CPTs, comments, WooCommerce orders)
229 * Add real file/folder storage on the desktop
230 * Fix gamepad icon missing from the window title bar (data-URI window icons)
231 * Fix content graph taxonomy fallback
232
233 = 0.9.5 =
234 * AI Copilot now uses WordPress 7.0 providers: configure a provider once in Settings → Connectors and the assistant uses it — no more per-plugin keys
235 * AI Copilot tools are now WordPress Abilities, so the assistant works across any configured provider; plugin authors add their own tools with the Abilities API (`openstation_register_ai_tool()` was removed)
236 * Removed the OpenStation Preferences → AI tab; the per-user "AI assistant" toggle now lives in OpenStation Preferences → Features next to "Score new comments with AI"
237 * Requires WordPress 7.0 for the AI assistant only; on older WordPress the assistant is hidden and the rest of OpenStation is unaffected
238 * Stored AI keys are deleted from the database on upgrade
239 * Five new built-in widgets: Recent Comments, Post Stats, Site Views, Jazz Quote, and Starter
240 * Widgets can now be resized, and docked widget heights persist across sessions
241 * Two new wallpapers, Living Tree and Snow, plus per-wallpaper settings dialogs
242 * Window links: windows showing related content are visually connected, with pluggable link renderers for plugin authors
243 * Spring-loading: hovering a window while dragging anything brings it to the front
244 * New developer mode setting (OpenStation Preferences → Features) unlocks developer-facing surfaces
245 * WordPress update notices now surface once in the desktop shell instead of repeating in every window
246 * Desktop shortcuts stay in sync and core icons follow the spatial layout
247 * Extended options merged into the OpenStation Preferences → Features tab
248 * Fixed selection bugs that could point destructive actions at the wrong files
249 * Closing a window with unsaved changes now warns instead of silently losing work
250 * Fixed windows and dock state leaking across virtual desktops
251 * Fixed Overview keyboard navigation and focus trapping
252 * The dock now refreshes live when a plugin registers a new post type
253 * Fixed dock icon alignment, "Add New" window titles and icons, and count-label pluralization
254
255 = 0.9.3 =
256 * Rewrite WordPress.org plugin page, leaner copy, video embed, screenshots
257 * Review: doc/comment accuracy, security hardening, and cleanups across the plugin
258
259 = 0.9.2 =
260 * Persist welcome-dialog dismissal when OpenStation is disabled
261 * Welcome dialog reappears on every page when the admin is served from an origin that differs from `site_url`
262
263 = 0.9.1 =
264 * Make native list windows opt-in (Beta) instead of opt-out
265 * Scope AI to comment spam + native-search assistant
266 * Feat/unfocus window effects
267 * Fix placement, gear/Help, and dock⇄desktop visibility bugs
268 * Fix Guidelines-experiment 404 noise, duplicate welcome dialog, and unused-preload warnings
269 * Add "View activity footprint" row action in Users list
270
271 = 0.9.0 =
272 * Gate per-user REST routes on OpenStation enabled
273 * Refine recycle bin badge styling and sync on stop
274 * Clear comments selection after applying action
275 * Don't let a failing sync block the agent
276 * Make the AI-disabled error link to AI Settings
277
278 = 0.8.9 =
279 * Improve drag-and-drop handling in chromeless bridge and iframe bridge
280 * The whole shell loads faster, especially the first time you open wp-admin
281 * Open an app from the wallpaper or from the dock — it's the same window now (no more two copies floating around)
282 * Minimize a window and the dock icon shows it's minimized — even if you opened it from the desktop icon
283 * Click "+ New" twice and you get two editors. Drafting a post and want to start another? Just click again
284 * "Switch to OpenStation" always takes you to the dashboard, so you know where you're starting from
285 * Resizing a window and accidentally letting go over the desktop no longer minimizes everything
286 * WooCommerce: the "Add Order" button is back on the Orders page
287 * "Add New" buttons (Add Post, Add Order, Add anything) stay visible inside every plugin page
288 * After we ship a fix, you get it on your next page load — no more "try refreshing twice"
289
290 = 0.8.8 =
291 * Align dock badge with in-window update count
292 * Make every dock scrollable, keep system tiles pinned
293 * No more flash when you create, move, or delete a file or shortcut on the desktop
294 * Trashing a folder that contained other folders now works (used to silently fail)
295 * Drag an image from the Media Library straight into a Gutenberg post, it now inserts
296 * Edit User screen: the form is centered instead of pinned to the left
297 * Title-bar icons (Help, etc.) are now visually centered
298 * Sticky notes powered by WP Guidelines
299
300 = 0.8.7 =
301 * Bump Tested up to WordPress 7.0
302 * Fix plugins window stale-nonce 'Cookie check failed' on long-running sessions
303 * Fix plugin .zip drop routing to Media Library uploader
304 * Add server-side search to entity list views
305 * Rename Browse tab to Add Plugin
306 * Drag and drop improvements
307
308 = 0.8.6 =
309 * Light indicators for native-window-target dock icons
310 * Additional fixes and polish
311 * Add compatibility layer for Divi script dependencies and tests
312 * Show plugin icons
313 * Open off-site menu items in a new browser tab
314
315 = 0.8.6-rc1 =
316 * Tag cloud & category mindmap: search, clustering, server cache
317 * Drag & Drop from local desktop
318 * Implement loading skeletons and staggered animations for file tiles
319 * Arrow-key shortcuts + Overview-from-Show-Desktop fix
320 * Shortcuts popover, dock-style tooltips, reorder
321 * Add Featured Plugins View and Ribbon Component
322 * Add "Automatic Updates" column and related functionality to Plugins window
323 * Add window notices feature with persistent dismissal and server sync
324 * Polish four framework surfaces for plugin authors
325 * Disable focus on other window actions
326 * Add Media section to "My WordPress" + uniform preview-pane hook surface
327 * Refactor My WordPress to use `<os-tile>` + add post status ribbons
328 * Allow deactivating plugins in CMO desktop & dock
329 * OS-file drop — progress UI, live refresh, cancel cleanup, CMO
330 * Group-by selector + click-to-deselect + focused-icon centering
331 * Test against PHP 8.3 and 8.4
332 * Enhance minimize/restore behavior to preserve pre-minimize state and add cross-state transition tests
333
334 = 0.8.5 =
335 * Shared folders, heartbeat widget, and heartbeat-pipeline hardening
336 * Recycle Bin: show item type badges inline next to title
337 * Plugins window: expandable rows with rich plugin details
338 * Remember native window size across opens
339 * Fix blank plugin icons in the Plugins window
340 * Restore "Show desktop on wallpaper click" as an opt-in setting
341 * Fix plugin update refresh, dock badge, and stuck-row failures
342 * Trash bin polish: URL badge, live placement badge, no media auto-trash
343 * Throw on empty REST body to avoid TypeError after self-replace
344 * Hide Media filter tab when MEDIA_TRASH is off
345 * Sequence openCurrentPage after restoreSession to avoid duplicate windows
346 * Fix window refresh issue on new sessions
347
348 = 0.8.4 =
349 * Faster OpenStation, main bundle cut by 59 %
350 * "Edit Post" from the front-end admin bar opens nothing
351 * Cross-page admin-link clicks: state, destructive actions, referer hint
352 * Warn loudly when a `<os-*>` tag is used without being imported
353 * Support re-uploading existing plugins, add post-install Activate panel
354 * Restore the full WordPress command palette inside Cmd+K
355
356 = 0.8.3 =
357 * Feat comments as native windows
358 * Chrome <111 titlebars + duplicate-placement REST 500s
359 * SW navigation interception caused window-in-window after core update
360 * Open each post as its own window from the Posts window
361 * Fix Users window data + live-refresh, plus per-window REST clients
362 * Session-expiry cascade + Plugins window sync
363 * Narrow scope to /wp-admin/ and throttle SW reloads
364 * Plugins window: real updates, not just a phantom badge
365 * Support plain permalinks for REST URL construction
366 * Hide registered icons from desktop instead of trashing
367
368 = 0.8.2 =
369 * Many fixes and new features
370 * Add unit test to ensure bridge script skips core AJAX update buttons
371 * Native Plugins window + `<os-card>`
372 * Appearance window polish + dock-peek fixes
373 * Fix upload theme
374 * Implement favicon resolver and associated tests for OpenStation
375 * Auto-inject X-WP-Nonce for REST API requests
376 * Enhance user management functionality in WordPress REST API
377 * Fix user role updates
378 * Fix plugin native issues
379 * Enhance color scheme preview functionality by adding shell scheme flipping
380 * Fix rearrange icons out of desktop
381 * Open each post in its own window
382 * Add item visibility and dock order settings
383 * Add first-run welcome dialog for OpenStation
384 * Fix dock management
385 * Refetch desktop placements on Recycle Bin restore
386
387 = 0.8.1 =
388 * Framework rework and stability improvements — significant internals refactor, smoother window lifecycle, and more reliable bridging between iframe and native windows.
389 * Drag and drop reworked end-to-end: calmer pointer behavior, more accurate hit-testing, and reliable handoff across windows.
390 * Posts, Pages, and Users now open as native desktop windows — direct DOM rendering inside the shell instead of an iframe, faster open, instant interaction, and UI tailored to the windowing model.
391 * New Content Graph tool — an interactive map of how your content links together. Pan, zoom, and focus a node to explore its neighborhood.
392 * Cross-page admin link routing in the chromeless bridge so links across the admin stay inside the desktop shell.
393 * Many bug fixes across the admin bar, Fullscreen toggle, resize handles over iframes, real-time icon refresh on plugin activation, and the PWA shell.
394
395 = 0.5.1 =
396 * Code editor and framework improvements.
397 * Enhanced AI provider integration: third-party providers may register through `openstation_register_ai_provider()`.
398 * Title-bar button registry with icon painting for plugin authors.
399 * OpenStation Preferences tabs are now extensible via `openstation_register_settings_tab_script()` / `openstation_register_settings_tab()`.
400 * AI Copilot extensibility: server-side tool registry (`openstation_register_ai_tool()`) and client-side `wp.os.ai.ask()` programmatic entry point.
401 * UI component kit expansion (~25 `<os-*>` web components).
402 * Backtick hotkey to cycle window focus.
403 * Unified command palettes via the palette registry.
404 * OpenStation Preferences Help tab.
405
406 = 0.5.0 =
407 * Command registration APIs (`openstation_register_command_script()` / `openstation_register_command()`) with live install/activate refresh.
408 * Media-library enhancement enabled by default, with opt-out.
409 * Dock CSS selectors updated; overflow handling improved.
410
411 See the [GitHub releases page](https://github.com/WordPress/openstation/releases) for the full history.
412
413 == Upgrade Notice ==
414
415 = 0.8.1 =
416 Framework and stability rework, reworked drag and drop, native Posts/Pages/Users windows, and a new Content Graph tool. Backwards-compatible.
417
418 = 0.5.1 =
419 Adds AI Copilot extensibility (server-side tools, multi-provider support) and a title-bar button registry. Backwards-compatible.
420