Skills Development Programmatic AI Content Generation for CMS

Programmatic AI Content Generation for CMS

v20260825
webiny-ai-powerups-content
A robust utility for generating, summarizing, or rewriting Headless CMS entry content programmatically. Instead of calling an LLM directly, this skill delegates the process to the user's configured AI Power Ups, allowing the use of saved Writers/Readers Personas and Projects. Ideal for implementing bulk actions, lifecycle hooks, or custom mutations, ensuring secure content creation without needing to hardcode API keys or prompts.
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Overview

AI content generation via AI Power Ups

TL;DR

Inject CmsGenerateEntryContentUseCase (from webiny/api/ai-powerups) and call execute(...). It uses the provider the user configured in AI Power Ups and applies an optional Project, Writer Persona, or Reader Persona — so you never pick models, decrypt API keys, or hardcode prompts. It returns the AI-generated entry values as a JSON string; parse it and take the field(s) you want.

Prefer this over a raw Ai.generateText call whenever the point is "apply the user's configured AI setup" — it composes the product with itself and is far less plumbing.

Generate content

import { CmsGenerateEntryContentUseCase } from "webiny/api/ai-powerups";

class MyThing {
  constructor(private generate: CmsGenerateEntryContentUseCase.Interface) {}

  async run(model, entry, ctx) {
    const result = await this.generate.execute({
      modelId: model.modelId,
      prompt: `Write a one-sentence marketing summary for "${entry.values.name}". Fill only the "aiSummary" field.`,
      // Any of these are optional; they map to what the user configured in AI Power Ups:
      projectId: ctx?.projectId, // a bundled context (instructions + files + default personas)
      writerPersonaId: ctx?.writerPersonaId, // tone
      readerPersonaId: ctx?.readerPersonaId // audience
    });
    if (result.isFail()) {
      throw result.error; // e.g. "No AI provider configured. Add a provider in AI Power Ups settings."
    }
    return result.value; // { values, telemetry }
  }
}

Register the dependency: dependencies: [CmsGenerateEntryContentUseCase].

Output shape — important

result.value.values is an entry-shaped object keyed by the model's field ids (the use case is built to fill an entry from its schema). The AI decides which fields it fills, so:

  • Read only the field(s) you want (e.g. result.value.values.aiSummary) — do NOT blindly write the whole object back, or the AI could overwrite name, price, etc.
  • Type the values at the call site if you like: execute<{ aiSummary?: string }>(...), which makes result.value.values.aiSummary typed (defaults to Record<string, any>).
  • Guard for the field being absent (the model may not have filled it): fall back to "" and, if you're inside a converging background task, still mark the entry done so it doesn't loop.

Then persist with UpdateEntryUseCase (values nested; skipValidation: true for a targeted field write).

Admin — list configured contexts (for a picker)

To let the user pick a Project/Persona in the Admin UI, read AI Power Ups settings with GetSettingsFeature (from webiny/admin/ai-powerups):

import { useFeature } from "webiny/admin";
import { GetSettingsFeature } from "webiny/admin/ai-powerups";

const { useCase: getSettings } = useFeature(GetSettingsFeature);
const settings = await getSettings.execute();
// settings.writerPersonas.presets / settings.readerPersonas.presets / settings.projects.presets
// each preset: { id, name, description, ... }

Forward the chosen id(s) to your backend (e.g. via a bulk action's data).

Related

  • webiny-cms-bulk-actions — the common host for this: a bulk action whose processData calls CmsGenerateEntryContentUseCase and writes the result, as a background task.
  • @webiny/ai-powerups's AiImageEnrichmentTask shows the alternative (raw, hardcoded Ai.generateText) — use that only when you deliberately don't want the configured setup.
Info
Category Development
Name webiny-ai-powerups-content
Version v20260825
Size 4KB
Updated At 2026-09-06
Language