With WordPress 7.0, the AI providers connectors will be added. They are a centralised credentials storage, combined with some AI libraries, so plugins can use AI providers without worrying about credentials.
Why is it useful? Because AI can be required by many plugins in the near future, and configuring the provider on each plugin would be a nightmare. It’s as if every plugin you install would ask for the database credentials…
Back on the topic, plugins that uses AI provider make a lot of external calls. With the Monitor plugin and the HTTP monitoring active, they can be recorded and analysed.
Here is an example of a call to Mistral.ai when generating an excerpt using the AI Experiments plugin.
Using the “view” link, you can even access the details of the call, with all data transferred to the AI provider.
Note: the monitoring can track only the HTTP calls made using the WP standard libraries. For example, a plugin using “cUrl” cannot be tracked.
