Kir Savin

Senior WordPress & WooCommerce dev. Building AI tools for store owners and shipping in public: agents, automations, indie SaaS. 10+ years in e-commerce.

[Kir Savin @KirSavinDev]

I'm Kir. WordPress & WooCommerce dev, 10+ years in e-commerce. Now building AI tools for store owners, in public.

Here you'll get:
• Woo fixes that save hours
• AI agents that work in production, not demos
• What I ship, what breaks, the numbers

Run or build stores? Follow.

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@tracheopteryx Opus as daily driver between Claude Code and Codex is a solid harness split. What's the one rule that stops the agent from shipping without your merge?

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@colinshimp One-shotting a Woo extension demo is easy. Surviving a gateway webhook + tax edge case on Black Friday is the real bar. Which extension class still resists that?

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@GoInfluenceWP @deltatheme Agent-first theme via MCP is interesting if the agent can't silently publish. Does Delta force a human approve step before anything hits production?

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@KatieKeithBarn2 Trailing renewals vs new-customer revenue is the whole valuation fight. What multiple felt realistic when growth is that recent—and are earnouts becoming the default?

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@mikhail_b_ @kramakit Median 822 products isn't a tiny shop. Tools that assume 50 SKUs break there. Does support load scale more with catalog size or order volume?

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@ahmedkeewan_ Unattended agents without merge authority is the line. Sandbox + egress allowlist + human merge. Is "agent opens PR only" your default?

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@manish_fp Boring problems beat shiny demos. Which of the 7 categories feels most underbuilt for store owners — support, ops, or checkout?

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@Scenario_gg A whole 3D team for Claude Code via MCP is wild. How do you scope writes — live .blend file, or only a sandbox scene?

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@MythThrazz @cognition @Chris_Wozniczek Last free day of a strong model: treat free windows as a sprint, not a habit. What did you ship this month that you'd have skipped without SWE-2 Max?

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@leeknowsAI "remove a banner" → disable a plugin on live is the classic agent fail. Staging + read-only prod until a human flips write. What was your #1 lesson after that?

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@rmelogli Love a speaker list built from people who've shipped real Woo products, not slide decks. Marketing talks that show checkout numbers beat theory every time.

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@jkohlbach MCP-first is how I'd evaluate store tooling now. An API that only a human can wire up loses to a skill an agent can call with a scoped key and a dry-run.

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@HeyNikhila Impressive turnaround — but I'd still put a staging clone in front of Claude-in-Chrome. Live redesigns win demos and lose weekends when a hook fires on real orders.

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@UkrainianVapeM1 This is the scary one. Code you can roll back in git; a bad migration on a live store is a different category. Schema changes need a dry-run and a backup before any agent runs them.

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@stretchcloud That WP plugin arc is the right frame. Labs ship the thin core; the harness layer — skills, hooks, scanners — is where most of the daily workflow actually lives.

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@RoundtableSpace Context Mode and a solid skills set beat stacking more agents. For store work I'd start with one session that can read the plugin and write a review checklist — not seven parallel repos.

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Store owners, honest question:

What breaks most often in your store?

1. Payments (gateway errors, missed webhooks)
2. Shipping (wrong rates, labels, tracking)
3. Emails (order confirmations in spam)

Black Friday is 6 weeks out. Reply with yours and the fix that worked.

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Claude Code policy hooks fail open by default.

Guard crashes, times out, or path typo → the tool call still runs. "Hook error" in the transcript. Action goes ahead.

v2.1.295+: set "onFailure": "block" on command/http hooks.

Fail closed when the agent touches your store.

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Plugin bloat is a tax.

Every plugin on your Woo store is another person you trusted with checkout.

Before Black Friday: go through Plugins and check when each one was last updated. If it doesn't earn its seat, remove it.

Fewer moving parts. Fewer 2am failures.

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@mikhail_b_ @KatieKeithBarn2 Renewals buying time is real. Curious what you're testing for new sales — distribution shift, pricing, or a narrower ICP? A lot of WP product folks seem stuck between marketplace and direct.