Assistant
The workspace assistant opens beside Pixel from the assistant button in the workspace header. With an image open in the editor, it can read and change that design for you: describe the change in plain language, such as “move the title to the left”, “make the background a warm gradient” or “resize this for a 1080 × 1920 story”, and it edits the canvas you are looking at.
What it can do
The assistant works on the open editor only, through these tools:
- Inspect the design: its elements, the selection, the canvas settings, and whether there are unsaved changes or steps to undo.
- Update an element: its content, styles, title or lock, for the selected element or one it names.
- Replace the design: its elements, conditions and canvas settings at once, for example to build a new layout. The image keeps its ID.
- Select an element, or clear the selection.
- Undo and redo, and save or discard the draft. It saves or discards only when you ask it to.
Every change it makes is an ordinary unsaved edit: it shows on the canvas straight away and is kept only when the image is saved. Outside an open image editor, for example on the image library, the assistant cannot edit a design and says so.
The assistant can also run Pixel’s reviewed WP-CLI commands, such as listing images or warming the cache; the commands that delete something ask you to confirm first. See CLI.
Provider keys
The assistant needs a key for an AI provider: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or OpenRouter. Keys are not a Pixel setting. They live in the AI section of the global settings, which the settings button beside the light and dark mode control opens; in the standalone SleekPixel plugin the same section appears in Pixel’s Settings. One key there serves the assistant of every SleekWP product on the site, is stored encrypted and is never shown again. Without a key the assistant keeps its history readable but cannot answer.