Hygraph provides AI tools that editors can use directly in the content editor: AI Agents, AI Assist, and AI assistants connected via MCP. AI Agents and AI Assist collect their output in a review step before anything is applied. A connected assistant asks for your approval before each action instead. Either way, nothing changes or publishes without your approval.
#AI Agents
Agents run tasks, such as translation, summarization, and SEO analysis, on content entries. An admin configures which agents are available and which models they apply to. As an editor, you trigger agents manually from the content table or content entry form, or they run automatically when an entry moves through a workflow step.
When an agent runs, it writes its output directly to the entry. The entry becomes read-only until you complete the review. Every field the agent changed is shown in a side-by-side diff so you can approve or revert changes field by field.
Hygraph provides three agent types:
| Agent | What it does |
|---|
| SEO & GEO Expert | Reviews your entry and posts a structured SEO & GEO report as a comment, covering content optimization, heading structure, and metadata gaps. |
| Translator agent | Translates content fields into one or more target locales. |
| Content summarizer | Generates a concise summary from one or more fields and writes it to a target field. |
See Trigger agents for the full task steps.
#AI Assist
AI Assist is an on-demand writing tool built into the content editor. You open it on any entry and run one of three tasks on individual fields:
- Create content: Generates new content for empty fields based on a prompt.
- Improve existing content: Refines existing text for clarity, tone, and readability.
- Translate content: Translates existing text into one or more target locales.
AI Assist works on single line text, multi line text, Markdown, and rich text fields. You can run a task on up to five fields at once. All suggestions appear in a review panel before anything is applied to the entry.
See Use AI Assist for the full task steps.
#AI assistants connected via MCP
Hygraph supports connecting AI assistants directly to your project using the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the same underlying connection developers use for tools like Cursor and VS Code. You sign in with your own Hygraph account, so the assistant's access matches your own permissions.
Unlike AI Agents and AI Assist, a connected assistant doesn't run inside the content editor. You work with it from its own conversation, and ask it to read, draft, update, or publish content, or inspect your schema. It asks for your approval before it uses certain tools, most importantly before it runs GraphQL directly, since that tool can make bulk changes across many entries at once.
See Connect an AI assistant to Hygraph for more information.
#Comparison
| AI Agents | AI Assist | AI assistant (MCP) |
|---|
| Triggered by | You (manually) or a workflow step (automatically) | You, on demand | You, in a conversation |
| Scope | One or more entries at a time | Individual fields within a single entry | Any entry or model your Hygraph permissions allow |
| Tasks | Translation, summarization, SEO analysis | Create, improve, translate | Read, create, update, publish; also schema tasks |
| Review | Side-by-side diff per field, approve or revert | Suggestion panel, apply or reject | Approve each tool call as it happens |
| Configured by | Admin | Available to all editors out of the box | You, by connecting your own Hygraph login |
#AI Guidelines
Guidelines are project-level instructions that give AI tools context about your brand, audience, and terminology. When guidelines are assigned to an agent or applied to an AI Assist task, the output reflects your specific requirements — not just generic AI output.
As an editor, you can read existing guidelines but cannot create or edit them. If agent output doesn't reflect your brand voice, uses the wrong terminology, or ignores compliance requirements, ask your admin to add or update the relevant guideline. See AI Guidelines for what each category covers.
#What's next
- Trigger agents: Trigger agents on entries from the Content Table or Content Form.
- Use AI Assist: Run AI Assist tasks on individual fields within an entry.
- Connect an AI assistant: Connect Claude directly to your content with your own Hygraph login.
- AI Guidelines: Understand what guidelines are and how to request changes from your admin.