A morning check for TYPO3 admins: scheduler, missing translations and backend accounts in one question
An administrator's first look of the day spans several backend modules: is the scheduler running, which pages are still missing a translation, and which accounts have more rights than they should. With AI Foundation's MCP one read-only question collects all three across every site, and the answer is a short list of what needs you today.
The prompt
Morning check for our TYPO3 install, all sites: scheduler tasks that failed or are switched off, visible pages that have no German version, and backend accounts that are admins or have never logged in. A short list of what needs me today. Read only, answer here in the chat.
Three checks in one read-only question
What does the assistant do?
- Ask one question: failed or switched-off scheduler tasks, visible pages without German, and admin or never-used accounts. Say read only.
- On our demo Claude reads the site languages, the scheduler, the backend users and the pages, and writes nothing.
- Scheduler: no failures, but tasks 1, 2 and 4 are late and 3, 5 and 6 are switched off.
- Pages without German: seven on Mustermann Outdoor and four on Stadtwerke Musterstadt; the third site has none missing.
- Accounts: two admins, one of them the TYPO3 system user, and an enabled editor account that has never logged in.
How do I check it and put it back?
Open the Scheduler module: late tasks show a late badge, switched-off ones disabled. Open Users: admins carry the admin icon, and Last login says Never for unused accounts. For a page, switch the page tree to German or open the language menu on the website. Nothing was written, so there is nothing to put back.
What do I need?
AI Foundation with its MCP server switched on, an admin connection for the user tools, and an MCP-capable assistant; AI Foundation is free.
What can the assistant not do for you?
- Late means the next run lies in the past. TYPO3 does not start tasks by itself: cron or a scheduler on your host has to call it. The check shows the symptom; the cause is on the server.
- "Visible" here means the English page is not hidden. Start and stop times and hidden parent pages were not checked; ask for them if you need them.
- The user and group tools need an admin connection. Password and MFA fields are never returned.
- What the tools return (page titles, task and user names) goes to your assistant's vendor. With your own key there is no T3Planet proxy in between; only a local model keeps it in-house.
- We left redirects out: the site tools do not return a site's base path, so an assistant can call a working redirect broken. Check redirects on their own.
Questions about this episode
What does this video show?
One read-only question in Claude on our demo install, then the Scheduler and the Users module in the TYPO3 backend, and a page on the website that has no German version.
Does the assistant change anything?
No. The question says read only, and the tools it used only read: site languages, scheduler tasks, backend users and pages.
Why are scheduler tasks late?
On our demo nothing calls the scheduler on time. TYPO3 runs due tasks only when cron or another planner on the host starts it; the check points at that, the fix is on the server.
Transcript of the video
- 0:00MCP in Practice for TYPO3 · Episode 25: A morning check for TYPO3 admins: scheduler, missing translations and backend accounts in one question
- 0:03One question for the whole install: scheduler, pages without German and backend accounts. Read only.
- 0:05Claude reads the site languages, the scheduler, the backend users and the pages. Nothing is written.
- 0:08Scheduler: no failures, but three tasks are late and three are switched off.
- 0:10Pages without German on two sites, and the accounts to look at: two admins and an editor account that has never logged in.
- 0:14Now check it in TYPO3.
- 0:16Scheduler: tasks 1, 2 and 4 are late, so nothing is running them on time; 3, 5 and 6 are switched off.
- 0:28Backend users: the admins, and demo-editor, enabled and never logged in.
- 0:40On the website: the Events page has no German version, so the language menu offers no German link.
- 0:50Three checks in one question, read only.
- 0:52All episodes: t3planet.de/en/blog/typo3-mcp-in-practice/
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