=== Respira ARC – Agent-Ready Commerce for WooCommerce ===
Contributors: respira
Tags: woocommerce, product feed, google shopping, ai, chatgpt, llms.txt, agentic commerce, pinterest, tiktok, merchant center
Requires at least: 6.0
Tested up to: 7.0
Requires PHP: 7.4
Requires Plugins: woocommerce
Stable tag: 0.1.2
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

AI can only sell what it can read. Product feeds in six formats, a store llms.txt, an AI-readiness score, and attributed cart links. Free.

== Description ==

ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and Google AI Mode already recommend products to millions of shoppers. Shopify flipped a switch and made its stores readable to them. A WooCommerce store is invisible to AI assistants unless someone does the work.

ARC does the work. Free, on your own server, no accounts, no product caps.

**Product feeds in six formats, always fresh.**

* Google Shopping XML for Merchant Center scheduled fetch (Bing accepts the same format)
* ChatGPT / OpenAI shopping JSONL, per the OpenAI product feed spec
* Meta CSV for Facebook and Instagram Commerce Manager
* Pinterest catalog CSV
* TikTok catalog CSV
* Generic CSV export

Feeds rebuild on your schedule and again a few minutes after products change. Variations export as proper variant rows (item_group_id, color, size, per-variation prices and images), sale prices carry their date windows, and identifiers (brand, GTIN, MPN) follow each platform's rules, including Google's identifier_exists logic.

**A store llms.txt.** A machine-readable store summary served at yoursite.com/llms.txt: what you sell, your policies, your top categories, and where the feeds live. The file AI assistants look for first.

**An AI-readiness score.** Your catalog checked against the Google Shopping spec, with the exact failing products and what each one is missing: images, real descriptions, brands, GTINs, category mapping. A higher score means fewer rows rejected by shopping surfaces.

**Attributed cart links.** Signed links that fill a shopper's cart and land on your own checkout. Orders arriving through them are attributed to their source (WooCommerce native order attribution plus order meta), so the screen shows orders and revenue that came from AI assistants. Checkout, payments, and customer data never leave your store.

**Private by design.** ARC makes no external connections, collects nothing, and phones nothing home. Your feeds live on your server, not on someone's CDN. There is no signup, no API key, and no rate limit, because there is no service in the middle.

= What you get without Respira =

Everything above, free, forever. ARC alone makes your store fully readable to AI assistants and shopping surfaces: discovery feeds, llms.txt, the readiness score, cart links with attribution. No feature is locked, no product count is capped.

= What Respira adds on top =

ARC tells you what is wrong with your catalog. Respira gives your AI assistant hands to fix it. With Respira for WordPress and its WooCommerce Add-on connected to ChatGPT or Claude, you can say:

* "Fix every product failing the feed checks" and the agent sets images, descriptions, brands, and GTINs itself
* "Put the three slowest movers on sale at 20% off"
* "Pause the subscription on order 1204 and note why"

That is 79 WooCommerce tools plus 230+ WordPress tools, with a snapshot before every write, dry-run previews on destructive operations, and 90-day rollback. ARC is the free on-ramp; Respira is the operator. If you install the Respira WooCommerce Add-on later, ARC steps aside automatically and your settings and feed URLs carry over unchanged.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Does this submit my products to Google or OpenAI for me? =

No plugin can do that part. ARC generates spec-correct feed URLs; you register them in Google Merchant Center, Meta Commerce Manager, Pinterest, TikTok, or OpenAI's merchant onboarding. Each is a one-time paste.

= Does it slow my store down? =

No. Feeds generate in the background in small batches (through Action Scheduler when WooCommerce provides it) and are served as static files. A shopper never waits on feed generation.

= Do out-of-stock products appear in feeds? =

By default yes, marked out of stock, because platforms prefer that over rows that vanish. One checkbox excludes them, and the `_respira_feed_exclude` product meta excludes individual products.

= How are variable products handled? =

Each variation becomes its own feed row grouped by item_group_id, with color and size attributes and per-variation prices and images. Parent values fill any gaps.

= Does ARC send any data to respira.press? =

No. There is no telemetry, no registration, and no external call. The settings page contains ordinary links to respira.press (the company behind ARC) that you can click or ignore.

= Is the free plugin limited to a number of products? =

No. Free means free: every format, every feature, any catalog size.

= What is the difference between ARC and the Respira WooCommerce Add-on? =

ARC makes your store readable (feeds, llms.txt, score, cart links) and is free. The add-on makes your store operable by AI agents: 79 safe WooCommerce tools with snapshots and rollback. Both share the same engine; they coexist cleanly and settings carry over in both directions.

== Screenshots ==

1. Six always-fresh product feeds with copyable URLs, product counts and last-build times.
2. The AI-readiness score, checked against the Google Shopping spec, with the exact failing products.
3. Signed cart links that fill a shopper's cart, with orders attributed to their agent source.
4. The store llms.txt served at the site root, readable by any AI assistant.
5. The Google Shopping feed registered in Google Merchant Center.
6. ARC is the free on-ramp to Respira, which gives agents 79 safe WooCommerce tools.

== Changelog ==

= 0.1.2 =
* A small provenance line under the page title ("Respira ARC, the free plugin") so it is always clear which plugin renders the screen.

= 0.1.1 =
* The "standing by" note shown when the Respira WooCommerce Add-on takes over now appears only on the Plugins screen, once, with a dismiss link, instead of on every admin page.

= 0.1.0 =
* First release: six feed formats (Google, OpenAI/ChatGPT, Meta, Pinterest, TikTok, CSV), store llms.txt, catalog AI-readiness scoring, signed cart links with order attribution, background batched generation with automatic rebuilds.
