AI Plugins

Xilancer ships three AI plugins. They overlap, but they solve different problems. You can run one, two, or all three; they register on different hooks and do not require each other.

Which one do I need?

A common setup is AI Engine for ranking, AI Toolkit for drafting, and AI Power for admin content and moderation.

AI Toolkit

What AI Toolkit does

AI Toolkit is deterministic first. It produces useful output with plain PHP rules, then optionally polishes with a language model. If no provider is configured, it still works.

Features:

• Offer and service drafting.
• Profile review with a score and suggestions.
• LinkedIn profile mapping.
• Search reranking.
• Inline assist boxes on create forms.

AI Toolkit hooks and slots

AI Toolkit providers

• OpenAI-compatible endpoints.
• DeepSeek.
• Ollama (local).

Secrets are masked in the CLI and never logged.

When to use AI Toolkit

Use AI Toolkit when you want better writing and a profile score without sending every request to a paid provider. The deterministic layer is the default; the LLM is an enhancement.

AI Engine

What AI Engine does

AI Engine parses intent, scores candidates, and ranks results. It is built for discovery, not writing.

Features:

• Intent parsing from a query or a job description.
• Scoring against skills, category, level, budget, and recency.
• Ranking for jobs, services, and talents.
• Recommendations for clients and freelancers.
• Related listings.
• Guided CTAs on listing pages.

AI Engine hooks and slots

No API key required

AI Engine ranks locally. An LLM is optional and only improves the intent parse. This makes it the cheapest way to add relevance to search.

When to use AI Engine

Use AI Engine when search feels generic, when clients cannot find the right freelancers, or when related listings are irrelevant.

AI Power

What AI Power does

AI Power is the full generation suite. It connects to multiple providers and exposes tools across the admin and frontend.

Features:

• Multi-provider text generation.
• Admin text presets by input type and category.
• Content writer.
• SEO title and description generation.
• Moderation.
• Semantic search.
• Translation.
• Image generation.
• Usage and cost tracking.

AI Power hooks and slots

AI Power providers

• OpenAI.
• Google Gemini.
• Anthropic.
• DeepSeek.
• Ollama.

Tables and settings

• ai_prompts - reusable prompts and presets.
• ai_usages - usage and cost records.
• aipower_settings - provider keys, model choice, limits.

Permission: aipower-manage.

Guardrails

AI Power is strict about public input:

• Rate limit per user and per IP.
• Input length cap.
• Output length cap matched to the field or content type.
• Contact-detail filtering.
• Admin-only routes for provider keys.
• Usage records for cost review.

These guardrails exist because a public AI box is an abuse target. Do not remove them.

When to use AI Power

Use AI Power when you need generation beyond drafting: admin content, SEO copy, translation, moderation, or images. It costs money per call, so set limits before enabling it for everyone.

Running more than one

Because all three can register the same hooks, priority matters. Lower runs first.

Recommended priority:

If two plugins both replace the result set, the last one wins. Pick one owner per hook and let the other act as a fallback.

Configuration

Configuring AI Toolkit

1. Open Plugin Manage and activate ai-toolkit.
2. Open its settings.
3. Choose a provider or leave it on deterministic.
4. If using a provider, enter the endpoint, model, and key.
5. Run a test from the CLI.

Configuring AI Engine

1. Activate aiengine.
2. Choose the intent mode: local or LLM-assisted.
3. Set the ranking weights if the settings page exposes them.
4. Test a search with a vague query.
5. Check the related listings on three services.

Configuring AI Power

1. Activate aipower.
2. Open AI Power → AI Settings.
3. Add one provider and one model.
4. Set input and output caps.
5. Set the rate limit.
6. Create a text preset for the content types you use.
7. Run a generation from an admin form.
8. Check Usage & Cost after a day.

Cost control

Start with the cheapest model that produces acceptable output. Measure before expanding.

Privacy

• Deterministic AI Toolkit and AI Engine do not send data anywhere.
• Provider-backed generation sends the prompt and any included text to the provider.
• Do not send personal data, private messages, or NDA content to a provider without a lawful basis.
• Review the provider's retention and training policy.
• If you need full privacy, use Ollama on your own hardware.

Failure behavior

• If a provider is down, AI Toolkit falls back to deterministic output.
• AI Engine falls back to its local scorer.
• AI Power reports the error and returns no generated text; it does not block the underlying form.
• A missing key disables the provider, not the plugin.

Troubleshooting

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Last updated: October 21, 2026