How to Leverage AI for Smarter ProcessWire Development

[bernhard]

On 2/12/2026 at 10:52 PM, Peter Knight said:

Don’t forget Cursor cloud agents.

Give a cloud agent a plan and the agent works in the background while you’re away from the laptop.

I give them a task on the iPad when I’m at the gym and by the time I’m home there’s a new branch waiting for me. 

I can’t verify this but somehow I’ve often found the quality of the cloud agents to be better than the desktop ones even on the same model. Can’t be true? But feels that way.

Oh actually I completely missed that! Would be interested in more details how you do that or any helpful links 🙂 

[Peter Knight]

Sure, just visit cursor.com on a mobile device and log in.

Look for the Agents link in top right. 

Select your project and branch if you’re connected to Git

Then if you’re out, at the gym or on anywhere away from desk I just dictate the features I want and let the cloud agents run.

[Peter Knight]

Anyone tried OpenClaw yet on a local machine? I see lots of tweets about Mac minis and OC and people running much cheaper agents etc 

[elabx]

10 hours ago, bernhard said:

Oh actually I completely missed that! Would be interested in more details how you do that or any helpful links 🙂 

I though you were talking about THIS, now  I just furiously started prompting all the bugs meanwhile I go reviewing and doing stuff on my own.

Now just boostrapping ddev somwhere (gihub codespaces?) , some E2E testing, feedback loop till acceptance and out of work lol

[bernhard]

Thx @Peter Knight ! This is so crazy!

I asked it to add an onboarding tour overnight. The first two page impressions led to exceptions, but after copying those error messages to cursor it worked:

And it not only works it also looks great! There are some issues still, but it's amazing how fast you can try things out and get a real world experience and not just a pencil sketch.

Is it somehow possible to give the AI access to a browser so that it can try to load the page and see and fix such exceptions on its own? Another thing I'd love to have is to make it PLAN upfront but then start building once that is done. It seems I have to always confirm the build step after the plan is done.

[elabx]

2 hours ago, bernhard said:

Is it somehow possible to give the AI access to a browser so that it can try to load the page and see and fix such exceptions on its own?

You mean something like this?? https://cursor.com/docs/agent/browser I started doing this with Claude and it does catch the error screens and fixes the bug. 

[elabx]

Worked on this the last couple days: https://github.com/elabx/processwire-mcp just tested it yesterday, so not a lot of usage.

[gebeer]

On 2/21/2026 at 6:29 PM, bernhard said:

Is it somehow possible to give the AI access to a browser so that it can try to load the page and see and fix such exceptions on its own?

I use https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp for that. Very fast.

On 2/21/2026 at 6:29 PM, bernhard said:

Another thing I'd love to have is to make it PLAN upfront but then start building once that is done. It seems I have to always confirm the build step after the plan is done.

The thing about the plan is that it's supposed to be reviewed before it is being applied, haha. But if you trust it without at least a quick glance, ok. I think Cursor can play sounds when it needs your attention. You could use that to notify you when you have to click the button.

 

20 hours ago, elabx said:

Worked on this the last couple days: https://github.com/elabx/processwire-mcp just tested it yesterday, so not a lot of usage.

Wow. The "Full ProcessWire API access - Query, create, update, and delete pages" is the most interesting for me here.

Working right now on a single-file PW-API-docs database based on https://github.com/memvid/memvid. Has semantic vector search (local embedding model), BM25 and all that good stuff. Also supports CRUD. I fed it a good part of https://github.com/phlppschrr/processwire-api-docs/blob/main/api-docs/index.md . File currently has around 35MB. Search is blazingly fast. I implement it as portable skill, not as MCP. Needs a little more love and testing but I'll drop it soonish.  

[elabx]

On 2/22/2026 at 5:59 AM, gebeer said:

Wow. The "Full ProcessWire API access - Query, create, update, and delete pages" is the most interesting for me here.

That's a bit of the AI bragging, still missing field/template creation to put an example. I focused first on page CRUD.

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Working right now on a single-file PW-API-docs database based on https://github.com/memvid/memvid. Has semantic vector search (local embedding model), BM25 and all that good stuff. Also supports CRUD. I fed it a good part of https://github.com/phlppschrr/processwire-api-docs/blob/main/api-docs/index.md . 

This looks amazing 😮 

[bernhard]

On 2/22/2026 at 12:59 PM, gebeer said:

I use https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp for that. Very fast.

And you get useful results? I installed it in cursor and it was impressive to see the browser pop up, but not really useful... I even added an /auto-login route to RockDevTools to make the mcp login as superuser by default, but still it was not able to fix such a latte exception issue.

[gebeer]

11 hours ago, bernhard said:

And you get useful results? I installed it in cursor and it was impressive to see the browser pop up, but not really useful... I even added an /auto-login route to RockDevTools to make the mcp login as superuser by default, but still it was not able to fix such a latte exception issue.

Yes, very good results. It's fast and pretty token efficient. You can connect it to an already open browser wit a logged in session etc. no need for auto-login route. let your agent read the mcp instructions. mine said to start chrome with a debug flag. Let me pulled that up through my conversation-search MCP quickly. Here it is :-)
 

Launch command (detached from terminal):
  setsid chromium --remote-debugging-port=9222 &>/dev/null &

  - --remote-debugging-port=9222 — enables CDP so the MCP can connect
  - setsid — creates a new session, fully detached from the terminal's process group (plain nohup doesn't survive
  terminal close because the terminal sends SIGTERM, not just SIGHUP)
  - &>/dev/null & — suppresses output and backgrounds it

That's for Linux but should work on your Mac, too.
In that browser you open your PW project, backend and then the mcp can connect.
That's the way it's supposed to be done, I guess. 

[gebeer]

23 hours ago, elabx said:

Working right now on a single-file PW-API-docs database based on https://github.com/memvid/memvid. Has semantic vector search (local embedding model), BM25 and all that good stuff. Also supports CRUD. I fed it a good part of https://github.com/phlppschrr/processwire-api-docs/blob/main/api-docs/index.md . 

Skill is up at https://github.com/gebeer/processwire-ai-docs/tree/main/skills/processwire-memory

You need to install memvid-cli. It's all in the README and skill.

You can build your memory file with docs you need from https://github.com/phlppschrr/processwire-api-docs/blob/main/api-docs/index.md 

If you want me to share my mem file (~35MB), I can do that, too.

I haven't used it a lot yet but it seems to work quite well. Maybe needs some work on the proactive part so that agents know when to lookup stuff even if not explicitly prompted. Implementing that depends very much on the AI tools you're using. For Claude Code hooks would be a good place. Others like Cursor, I don't know.

[gebeer]

3 minutes ago, gebeer said:

Skill is up at https://github.com/gebeer/processwire-ai-docs/tree/main/skills/processwire-memory

I wanted to add: This gives you basically something like context7. But locally with your very specific knowledge and not implemented as MCP but as skill which has less overhead in the context window.

And you could modify it easily for other knowledge. Different frameworks, whatever.