Meet Mago: The Magento Admin Assistant Where Security Is Not a Second-Class Citizen
Mago is the open-source admin assistant coming with Mage-OS 4. Who builds it, why it beats the first attempt, the MCP addon I built at the Zwolle hackathon, and what it really costs. There is a new admin assistant for Magento and Mage-OS called Mago, and it is the first one I would actually put in front of a merchant. You can read about it on askmago.com . Before I tell you what I like about it,…
Mago is an open-source admin assistant for Magento, released alongside Mage-OS 4.0.0, which was introduced on October 30th. Built by the Dutch Magento community in collaboration with Mage-OS Nederland, Mago is free, MIT-licensed, and does not require any subscriptions or paid tiers. It was developed by a diverse group of contributors, with Michiel Gerritsen leading the effort.
Mago stands out from previous attempts at AI chat widgets for Magento, such as Ryan Sun's Mage-OS Lab admin assistant from early 2025. While Sun's assistant combined an LLM with Magento domain knowledge and performed RAG in PHP, it was not polished and often produced incorrect answers. In contrast, Mago offers a more refined experience, with a user-friendly UI, proper widget formatting for answers, and slash commands that execute directly without AI calls.
Mago prioritizes security by integrating guardrails and access control lists (ACL) that adhere to Magento's own permissions system. Every tool call and query is logged, providing an audit trail that is ready for inspection. Furthermore, Mago ships with Mage-OS 4.0.0, the latest release of the Mage-OS community-run distribution of Magento Open Source, and can also be used with Magento 2.4.9 and Mage-OS 3.0.
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