🔐 Fabio Chatbot v3.6.9.2: why we haven't moved to WordPress's native AI connector (yet), and what we shipped instead 🚀

Since WordPress 7 introduced the native Connectors API / AI Client, we've had questions from the community: "Why isn't Fabio Chatbot using it yet?" 🤔

Short answer: security concerns we're not ready to compromise on. 🛡️

Right now, API key handling in Fabio Chatbot is explicit — site owners set their own keys directly in the plugin's interface, and we control exactly how they're stored and used. Moving to the native connector means handing that responsibility to a layer we don't fully control yet, and we'd rather wait until it's proven stable and secure at scale than ship a migration that puts user credentials at risk. ⚠️ We'll revisit this once WordPress core simplifies and hardens that connection flow.

In the meantime, we focused this release on something we could improve safely: response tone quality. 🎯

Fabio Chatbot has always offered three response tones — Professional, Friendly, and Serious — each driven by a dedicated system prompt that shapes vocabulary, structure, and energy. In 3.6.9.2, we refined the prompt logic behind all three:

• 🟦 Professional: tighter enforcement of confident, sales-oriented language without drifting into generic AI-assistant phrasing
• 🟨 Friendly: more consistent warmth without overusing emojis or exclamation marks 😄
• 🟥 Serious: stricter adherence to clinical, fact-only output — no accidental persuasion creeping in

These tones aren't user-customizable — they're fixed presets you select from the admin panel ⚙️, tuned to be predictable and on-brand out of the box. ✅

💬 Curious how the prompt logic is structured, or have thoughts on the connector migration timeline? Drop a comment — happy to go deeper into the implementation. 👇

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