TYPO3 MCP use cases: what you can hand to an AI assistant, on one map
Before you hand anything to an AI assistant, you want to know which jobs fit and which stay with you. This episode shows one job end to end: a prompt in your own words, a clearer hero teaser on a product page in English and German, checked on the website and put back.
The prompt
Make the hero teaser on our E-Bikes page clearer, in English and German.
Writes two fields, live at once. Check both on the website and put them back if you do not want them
What does the assistant do?
- Ask in the site's own words: make the hero teaser on our E-Bikes page clearer, in English and German.
- The assistant searches the page and reads its content first.
- It writes the new teaser in both languages: two record writes.
- You check the teaser on the website in English and German.
- On our demo the change went back afterwards, so the page looks as before.
How do I check it and put it back?
Look at the result on the website before it stays. To take it back, ask the assistant to restore the old text, or use records_undo with the batch ID when the change ran as a batch. The free jobs use AI Foundation; jobs such as alt text or translation need their AI Universe extension.
What do I need?
AI Foundation (free) and an MCP-capable assistant; an AI Universe extension for the licensed jobs.
What can the assistant not do for you?
- Since AI Foundation 2.0, a batch written with records_apply can run as a dry run first and be taken back in full with records_undo. Other writes act at once: read the current value first, check the change on the page, and have the assistant write the old value back if needed.
- Relation fields such as categories, tags, FAQ items and media fields are not written by the MCP tools today.
- Your own tables need Table Discovery: the assistant reaches an extension table only after you enable it.
Questions about this episode
What does this video show?
One prompt in the site's own words, "Make the hero teaser on our E-Bikes page clearer, in English and German", and the assistant writing both teasers, checked on the website of our demo install.
How long did it take?
28.5 seconds on our demo install, against 5 steps by hand in the backend for each language. The assistant wrote two records, one per language.
How do I take a change back?
A batch written with records_apply can be taken back in full with records_undo and its batch ID (AI Foundation 2.0). For other writes, ask the assistant to read the current value first, check the change on the page, and have it write the old value back. On our demo we put the old teasers back afterwards.
Transcript of the video
- 0:00MCP in Practice for TYPO3 · Episode 2: TYPO3 MCP use cases: what you can hand to an AI assistant, on one map
- 0:02One prompt, in your own words: a clearer teaser, in English and German.
- 0:04MCP gives the assistant tools. The row names the connector: AI Universe Demo.
- 0:07Its answer shows the old and the new teaser, in English and in German.
- 0:10It searched the page and wrote the hero teaser in English and in German.
- 0:12The new teasers are live. We check them in TYPO3.
- 0:14Now check it in TYPO3.
- 0:15MCP Tools lists the core tools by name: free with AI Foundation.
- 0:21Pages, content, files, redirects: jobs you can hand to an assistant.
- 0:27Each AI Universe extension adds its own tools and needs its own licence.
- 0:33Free core, licensed extensions. Check yours in your account.
- 0:40On the English website, the E-Bikes hero shows the new teaser.
- 0:45The German hero changed too. Both are live.
- 0:5028.5 seconds from prompt to answer, instead of 5 steps by hand per language.
- 0:52All episodes: t3planet.de/en/blog/typo3-mcp-in-practice/
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