The chat-tab tax on your attention
You're editing a product page. You want to polish the description — but your words aren't landing. You open a new tab, wait for the AI chat app to load, paste your copy, type a prompt, get a response, copy the answer, switch back to WordPress, scroll to where you were, paste. Every small AI question costs thirty seconds of context switching. Five questions a day, every day, adds up to hours a month of dead time.
What most people do instead
A better way: navigator → AI → done
Open the navigator with your usual shortcut (++W by default). Type ai send message and your prompt. Hit enter. The AI response renders inside the same navigator you opened — no new tab, no widget, no layout shift. Escape to close, and you're right back where you were.
Server-side AI proxy — no API keys, no config. Unlike plugins that force you to paste an OpenAI or Anthropic key into settings, TrueCommander proxies AI calls through its own backend. You get the capability without managing credentials, billing a separate provider, or handing your key to a plugin you didn't write.
How it works
The simplest command in the AI category: handle($data) returns $data['message'] unchanged. That raw text becomes the prompt sent to the AI proxy. The response renders in the navigator's output area. Zero preprocessing, zero context injection — it's literally just "pass your words through to AI, show me the answer."
ai send message -message="your prompt here". Full sentences, questions, code snippets — anything.| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
-message(required) | The prompt text sent to AI — no preprocessing |
| Output | Raw AI response, rendered as text in the navigator |
| AI provider | TrueCommander's server-side proxy — no API key required, no provider selection |
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Real example
You're writing release notes for a plugin update. You've drafted the bullets — you want a one-paragraph lead that hits the main benefit without sounding like a press release. You open the navigator and run ai send message -message="Write a warm, direct 2-sentence lead for this changelog: fixed cache invalidation on product updates, added bulk coupon generator, reduced admin page load by 400ms".
Response: "This release fixes a subtle cache bug that was leaving stale product pages in CDN storage for minutes longer than it should. It also ships a bulk coupon generator and trims 400ms off every admin page load." Copy that, paste into the top of your release notes, done in ten seconds. You never left the WordPress admin.
Goes further with TrueCommander
ai generate command to turn it into a reusable PHP command.ai send message. One keystroke from wherever you are to an AI prompt.send message as a macro step — feed it a dynamic prompt built from chain data and capture the response.