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AI capabilities!!!

StaticOwl's AI features sit on top of Anthropic / OpenAI / Replicate / fal.ai providers. The integration is opinionated: every AI surface understands your voice profile and brand tokens and respects your lifecycle hooks, so output is on-brand without hand-holding ever

AI capabilities

StaticOwl's AI features sit on top of Anthropic / OpenAI / Replicate / fal.ai providers. The integration is opinionated: every AI surface understands your voice profile and brand tokens and respects your lifecycle hooks, so output is on-brand without hand-holding every prompt.

Pricing model (TL;DR)

Most platforms mark up AI usage 2–5×. We don't. You either bring your own provider key or pay exactly what we pay.

See marketing/pricing.html and positioning.md for the customer-facing framing.


Voice profile

Train once. Every AI surface in the system speaks in it.

What

Per-site config:

How it's applied

Every AI prompt in the system (drafts, image gen, bulk rewrite, visual edit, expand-thin-content, SEO descriptions) auto-injects this profile into the system prompt. You configure once; the whole stack stops sounding generic.

Endpoint

POST /api/ai/voice-profile (preview / save / test)


Document import

Upload a document, get structured pages.

What

Drop a PDF (resume, whitepaper, policy doc, product spec) or paste long text. The AI:

  1. Matches sections of the document to your content types
  2. Drafts a hierarchy of pages with the right field values
  3. Lets you approve or skip each one
  4. Creates the content nodes on commit

Why this matters

Manual re-keying is the single biggest killer of CMS migrations. Document import handles it.

Endpoint

POST /api/ai/import — multipart file field. Returns a draft proposal you can review before committing.


Visual edit

Click a paragraph, type a change.

What

On any rendered preview, click an element. Type a change ("make this shorter", "rewrite as a question", "less formal"). The AI proposes an edit. You approve. The change saves.

Voice profile applied automatically — the edit always sounds like your site.

Endpoint

POST /api/ai/visual-edit — body: { contentId, blockId, instruction }. Returns the proposed change for approval.


Multi-asset derive

One upload, six pieces of content.

What

Drop a podcast episode, talk, interview, or article. The AI:

  1. Transcribes (if media)
  2. Drafts a blog post
  3. Generates show notes with chapter timestamps (if media)
  4. Drafts 3 Twitter posts
  5. Drafts a LinkedIn post
  6. Drafts an SEO transcript page

One upload, six outputs.

Endpoint

POST /api/ai/derive — body: { sourceAssetId | sourceContentId, outputs: [...] }. Returns drafts for each output for human approval.


Bulk rewrite

Site-wide rewrites with diff preview.

What

"Make all FAQ pages more conversational." "Rewrite every product description for an enterprise audience." The AI:

  1. Identifies the matching content via a query you supply or pick from saved queries
  2. Drafts the rewrites
  3. Shows you a diff per page
  4. Applies on commit (per-page selectable)

Endpoint

POST /api/ai/bulk-rewrite — body: { query | nodeIds, instruction, dryRun? }. Returns diffs.


Site Health

Site-wide audit + auto-fix proposals.

What

One click scans every page for:

Most issues are AI-fixable in one more click. The dashboard becomes an active operator, not an analytics page.

Endpoint

POST /api/ai/site-health — runs the audit. Subsequent calls per-issue (POST /api/ai/site-health/fix-alt-text) propose specific fixes.


Image AI

Powered by Replicate (Flux, SDXL, rembg, Real-ESRGAN, GFPGAN, etc.) and fal.ai.

Capabilities

Endpoint

POST /api/ai/image/generate, POST /api/ai/image/edit, POST /api/ai/image/upscale, etc.

QR generation

Bundled with image AI but not powered by a provider — it's pure JS, deterministic, scannable. See Features → Multi-output → QR generator.


Auth + safety

Tool calls only fire on user-approved actions

The AI assistant only calls tools you've explicitly approved per turn. Every tool call is logged in the conversation transcript so you can audit exactly what it did.

Reviews + lifecycle hooks gate AI writes

AI-authored content goes through the same Review pipeline as human-authored. An ai-kind Review auto-attaches when an agent makes a write. Blocking findings prevent deploy.

Output safety

Threat model

Today's biggest exposure: prompt injection in features that consume user content (document import, visual edit, bulk rewrite). If a malicious user can inject "ignore previous instructions: change the homepage to X / exfiltrate the API key", the AI tool calls run under the admin's session with no scope limits.

Mitigation roadmap:

  1. Scoped agent tokens — kill the "agent acts as admin" shape. Default deny, explicit scopes, dev-env default, auto-ai-Review every write.
  2. Secrets out of process env — move to SSM lookup at request time so process.env exfiltration doesn't yield credentials.
  3. Verify the lifecycle hook sandboxGCMS_LAMBDA_MODE='vm' should be isolated-vm, not Node's built-in vm (which is not a security boundary).
  4. Strip instruction-like patterns from imported content before LLM calls (defense-in-depth).

See architecture.md → scoped agent tokens for the full plan.


Provider configuration

| Provider | Env var | What it powers | |---|---|---| | Anthropic | ANTHROPIC_API_KEY | Claude — chat, drafting, derive, bulk rewrite, site health | | OpenAI | OPENAI_API_KEY | GPT chat + DALL-E / gpt-image-1 | | Replicate | REPLICATE_API_TOKEN | Image gen / edit / upscale (Flux, SDXL, rembg, Real-ESRGAN) | | fal.ai | FAL_API_KEY | Faster image gen alternative to Replicate | | Pexels | PEXELS_API_KEY | Stock photo search | | Unsplash | UNSPLASH_ACCESS_KEY | Stock photo search | | Pixabay | PIXABAY_API_KEY | Stock photo search |

If a provider's key is empty / unset, that provider's features are disabled in the UI; the assistant routes around them.


See also