PrestaShop with AI: Store Operations Need Workflows, Not Just Product Lookups
Most "AI for e-commerce" demos stop at the same trick: ask for a product, get a row back. That demos well. It does not run a store.
Picture this instead. Your summer collection went live yesterday. Half the size and colour combos are silently set to hidden. Two of the categories on the homepage are empty because every product underneath is active=0. A "Mother's Day -20%" cart rule expired last week but is still showing on the storefront. Customers are checking out, but the carrier for one shipping zone has been disabled. Nobody noticed.
That is not a screenshot question. That is what a useful agent has to walk: products, variants, stock, categories, prices, cart rules, carriers, zones, and the customer messages people are leaving when checkout breaks.
We rebuilt the PrestaShop MCP server around that shape. Catalog, order book, and localization get separate tools per resource, not one flat JSON blob.