Engineering notes

Specific Sitecore and Umbraco problems, the code that solved them, and the part that still does not work. Written by the people who did the work.

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August 2025: agents got write access to the backoffice
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August 2025: agents got write access to the backoffice

Four of the month's eleven Umbraco items are about MCP and AI. An agent built an element type from a single prompt, Umbraco Commerce got an MCP proof-of-concept, and the only post that said anything about who should be allowed to do that was a uSync patch note.

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April 2025: the advisory got worse three days after the patch shipped
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April 2025: the advisory got worse three days after the patch shipped

Umbraco patched CMS 14 and 15 on April 8 and raised the severity from moderate to high on April 11. Plus Canadian hosting, Flexible Environments, SSO, and uSync 15.1.6.

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