Cowboy MCP 1.6.7: WooCommerce product reviews are visible to AI agents again

A Cowboy MCP user asked ChatGPT whether it could see the reviews on their WooCommerce store. ChatGPT said it could not. It was right — and the reason had nothing to do with ChatGPT.

Why the reviews were missing

WooCommerce stores a product review as a comment. It also hides it. Every comment query on a WooCommerce site passes through a rule that quietly strips out anything attached to a product, unless the query specifically asks for it — which is how reviews stay out of the main Comments screen and live under Products → Reviews instead.

Cowboy's comment listing never asked, so it never saw them. Worse, there was no signal that anything had been removed: an agent reading the result could not tell "this store has no reviews" apart from "the reviews were filtered out before I got here." So it reported the store had none.

The same rule was hiding ordinary comments left on a product, for the same reason — it filters by what the comment is attached to, not by what kind of comment it is.

What changed

The listing now asks. Reviews come back alongside comments, each with its star rating and whether the reviewer was a verified buyer. Comments on products come back with them.

Nothing that was showing before has stopped showing. The fix was deliberately built so the default listing returns everything it returned in 1.6.6, plus the reviews it should have been returning all along.

A filter for comment types

Listing comments now takes a type, so you can ask for one kind at a time: comment for visitor comments, review for product reviews, pingback, trackback, pings for both of those, all for everything, or a custom type registered by another plugin.

Internal bookkeeping entries stay out of the way regardless of what you ask for. WooCommerce order notes and webhook delivery records are not comments anyone wants in a comment list, and they remain hidden.

What your agent can do with them

Reading is the main one: summarize what customers are saying about a product, find the one-star reviews from the last month, pull the reviews with no rating attached. Moderation works through the comment tools you already have — approving, unapproving, marking spam, and deleting all apply to reviews, and the product's star average recalculates on its own afterwards.

This release is about seeing and moderating the reviews you already have. Posting a new review through an agent is not part of it.

Update

Cowboy MCP updates itself from your WordPress dashboard like any other plugin. If you run a store and your agent has ever told you it could not find your reviews, this is the release to update to. Read the full 1.6.7 changelog on WordPress.org.