Open and transparent AI chatbot for WordPress: see how it works
SleekAI ships as unobfuscated PHP and JavaScript. Read the source, inspect the system prompts at request time, and trace every variable from data mapper to model call. Bring your own OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or OpenRouter key.
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Black-box AI is a trust problem
Closed AI chatbots ask the merchant to trust three layers blindly: the system prompt sent to the model, the data mapping that decided which fields ended up in that prompt, and the routing logic that picked the model and tracked the conversation. Vendors keep all three opaque, partly for IP protection, partly because revealing the system prompt would reveal how thin the engineering often is. The merchant sees a chat widget and a settings page. Everything between user input and model output is a black box.
SleekAI ships its plugin code unobfuscated. The PHP files in wp-content/plugins/sleek-ai/ are readable. The JavaScript bundle has source maps. The system prompt for any given chatbot is visible in the WordPress admin and can be dumped via WP-CLI. The data mapper resolves variables in PHP that you can step through with Xdebug, Query Monitor, or plain logging. Every hook, every filter, every database write is inspectable.
This is not the same as being fully open source under an OSI license, and we are honest about that. SleekAI is source-available commercial software, not GPL-only or MIT-licensed. The practical difference for an auditor is small (you can read everything you need to read), but the legal frame matters and we do not blur it. What we promise is transparency at the engineering level, not free-as-in-beer redistribution rights.
Workflow
How SleekAI stays transparent
Ship readable code
Include source maps
Expose the prompt
Be candid about license
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A typical transparency-focused conversation
Comparison
Closed-source chatbot vs SleekAI for transparency
Generic chatbot
- Ships obfuscated or minified code with no source maps
- Hides the system prompt behind vendor UI without a dump option
- Black-box data mapping that auditors cannot inspect
- No way to trace from user input to model call internally
- Marketing claims of openness without auditable code access
SleekAI chatbot
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Unobfuscated PHP source under
wp-content/plugins/sleek-ai/ - JavaScript bundle ships with source maps for browser debugging
- System prompts inspectable in admin and via WP-CLI dump command
- Data mapper resolves variables in steppable PHP, not opaque calls
- Honest about licensing: source-available, not OSI-licensed
Features
What SleekAI gives you for Open-Source Chatbot
Readable plugin code
Every PHP file in the plugin is readable in your editor. No license-key-protected ioncube wrappers, no minified PHP via PHP-Beautifier-tricked output. What you see in the file is what runs at request time.
Inspectable prompts
Per chatbot, the WP admin shows the assembled system prompt with all variables resolved. WP-CLI dumps the same prompt to stdout for diff-friendly audit logs. The model never sees more than what you can see.
Honest licensing
SleekAI is source-available commercial software. We do not claim an OSI license we do not hold. The practical benefit is full readability and auditability; the practical limit is no redistribution. That trade-off is stated plainly.
Use cases
Where transparent bots earn their keep
Engineering-led teams
Teams whose engineers have the time and instinct to read plugin code before adopting it prefer tools that reward the reading rather than punish it.
Academic and research sites
University and research institution sites often have policies favoring auditable software, even when not strictly OSI-licensed, especially for tools that handle visitor input.
Security-conscious deployments
Security teams that run static analysis on plugin code as part of intake gain real signal from unobfuscated source rather than guessing at obfuscated binaries.
The bigger picture
Why transparency matters more than the license badge
Open source in the OSI sense is a strong norm in WordPress culture, since WordPress itself is GPL. The instinct to favor open source over closed source is well calibrated for most plugin categories. AI chatbots, however, sit in a category where the model itself is usually closed and the data wiring is what merchants need to inspect.
A black-box plugin sitting on top of a closed model creates two layers of opacity, while an auditable plugin on top of a closed model leaves only the model layer obscured (and that obscurity is partly a fact of the AI industry as a whole). SleekAI chose source-available rather than full OSI licensing for sustainability reasons, but kept the engineering-level transparency intact. The trade is honest.
You can read every line that touches your data. You can dump every prompt that goes to the model. You can modify the plugin for your own site.
You cannot republish the code or fork it commercially. For most evaluators that combination is more useful than the abstract reassurance of a GPL badge over an obfuscated codebase. The badge is not the safety check.
The readable code is.
Questions
Common questions about SleekAI for Open-Source Chatbot
No, and we are direct about that. SleekAI is source-available commercial software under a paid license. The source is readable, modifiable for your own use, and inspectable, but not freely redistributable. We avoid claiming an OSI license we do not hold, even though source-available is sometimes loosely called 'open source' in marketing.
Sustainable development of a commercial WordPress plugin tends to require a license that ties paid usage to support and updates. Source-available gets us most of the transparency benefits while supporting the business. We respect plugin authors who go full GPL; for SleekAI's scope, source-available is the honest middle ground.
Yes. The license permits modification for your own use. Common modifications include custom data source adapters, alternative widget chrome, and per-site integrations with other plugins. Modifications are not eligible for support and may complicate updates, so most users contribute filter patches upstream instead.
No. Public redistribution and forking are not permitted under the source-available license. The code is meant for inspection and self-use, not for republication. If you want a feature added to the upstream, the contribution path is via pull request or issue against the SleekAI repository.
The JavaScript bundle is production-minified for browser performance (a few hundred kilobytes versus a few megabytes unminified), but ships with source maps so the browser DevTools can step through the original TypeScript. The PHP side is plain text, no encoder, no ioncube, no Source Guardian.
Yes. In addition to the admin view, the WP-CLI command 'wp sleek-ai dump-prompt' produces the fully resolved system prompt for any chatbot, with all variables filled in based on a sample WordPress context. Pipe the output through diff to track changes across releases.
After installing the plugin, the source lives at wp-content/plugins/sleek-ai/. Public sample snippets and the changelog live on the SleekAI website. There is no public full repository (it is source-available, not OSI-licensed), but the code is fully readable post-install on any licensed site.
The model is a separate concern from the plugin. OpenAI's, Anthropic's, and Google's models are closed-weight. If you need open-weight models, route through OpenRouter to a Llama 3, Mistral, or DeepSeek endpoint, or run a self-hosted vLLM or Ollama backend. SleekAI itself does not constrain the model layer.
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