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Unleash the power of AI in Umbraco

There's a lot to explore with Umbraco's AI tools, from Copilot to the Editor MCP server

Mario Lopez

03 November 2026

3 minute read

Umbraco's approach to AI is refreshingly open. You choose the AI, you own the setup, and you shape it to suit your site.

Rather than locking you into one tool, Umbraco lets you connect almost any AI provider. There's already a long list ready to go, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and OpenRouter.

You can even use different providers for different parts of your site, each set up with its own context, voice and target audience. Your product pages and your blog don't sound the same, and now your AI doesn't have to either.

Here's what's on offer.

Copilot Workspace

Copilot Workspace is a free add-on that gives you a dedicated section in the backoffice for AI conversations that go beyond a single page or media item. Its main features are:

  • Saved conversations - your chat history is stored and searchable, so nothing gets lost.
  • Projects - group conversations under shared instructions, context and resources you can reuse.
  • Context panel - see and manage the instructions, context and resources behind each conversation.
  • Archiving - archive conversations instead of deleting them, with a read-only recycle bin.
  • Pin, rename and move - keep conversations organised, including moving them between projects.

Contextual Copilot

Contextual Copilot adds a chat sidebar to the backoffice that knows what you're editing, and helps you add or change content using your chosen AI provider.

  • Chat sidebar - talk to your AI without leaving the page you're working on.
  • Content awareness - it understands what you're currently editing.
  • In-editor actions - it can make changes right there in the editor.
  • Approval first - it asks you to confirm changes before it makes them.
  • Live responses - answers appear as they're written, with no waiting around.
  • Content targeting - point it at specific content items.

Property prompts

Property prompts attach AI tasks to individual fields, so editors can generate content in one click. Think 'Generate an SEO title' or 'Summarise this content'.

The Editor MCP server

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the standard that lets AI tools connect to other software. Umbraco has offered a Developer MCP server for a while, and it can manage everything from content to settings and advanced configuration. As the name suggests, it's built for developers, or at least people comfortable installing an MCP client such as VS Code or Cursor.

Now there's a new Editor MCP server, made for the rest of us. You can connect it to compatible apps such as Claude Desktop, GitHub Copilot or ChatGPT.

That means your AI can manage your Umbraco content without you logging in to the backoffice. It can also work across your other tools. If it has access to Google Docs, Google Calendar or Microsoft 365, it can draw on that content and create pages directly on your website.

That's a lot of power, so plan before you switch it on. Decide what the AI can access, who approves its changes and who has the final say on what goes live.

What you can do with the Editor MCP server

Content management

Create, edit, publish and organise pages just by asking. Work with block editors, manage drafts and handle publishing workflows.

Media management

Upload, organise and manage media files. Create folders, move items and keep your media library tidy.

Translation and localisation

Create language variants, copy content between languages and track translation coverage across your site.

Content relationships

See how your content connects. Find orphan pages, check what links to a page before you delete it, and map outbound links.

Content health and reporting

Audit your content for SEO issues, find stale or thin content, spot missing translations and report on your site structure.

Setup depends on whether your site runs on Umbraco Cloud or is self-hosted.

The server runs in a dedicated worker. On Umbraco Cloud that's handled for you, so you just install a free package to switch it on.

Self-hosted sites need a bit more work. You'll find the details in the Umbraco documentation, or get in touch and we'll help you get it running.


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