Cybersalt Page Protector is a free Joomla 5 / 6 extension that puts a quick browser check in front of the pages and modules you choose. A real visitor's browser solves a small proof-of-work puzzle in about half a second, gets a pass, and browses normally from then on. A scraper pulling thousands of pages has to pay that cost over and over, and a scraper that doesn't run JavaScript never gets the content at all. It uses Joomla's own captcha system, so there is no third-party service and nothing for your visitors to sign up for.
MCP for VirtueMart is a free add-on for MCP for J that puts your VirtueMart shop in front of your AI client. Forty-eight tools cover products, categories, manufacturers, pricing, stock, orders, customers, reviews and diagnostics, so you can ask which products are out of stock, or move an order to Shipped, without opening the admin. The reason it's worth having rather than a script you write yourself is the shape of VirtueMart underneath: its own save routine treats every write as a complete admin form and deletes the prices, categories and custom fields you didn't re-send. Every write tool here is built to not do that. It needs Joomla 5 — VirtueMart's own installer refuses Joomla 6.
MCP for VMT + ET Templates is a free add-on for MCP for J that answers a question nothing else on your site can: which of your template's VirtueMart overrides have quietly stopped matching the VirtueMart underneath them. Every VMT template ships frozen copies of VirtueMart's own view files, and when VirtueMart updates, those copies don't. There's no error and no log entry — your shop just never gains the feature, or a renamed helper white-screens a page. Thirteen tools cover that check and the everyday jobs around it: template inventory, changelog extraction, parameter writes validated against the template's own options, and file access at the legacy path Joomla's newer tooling can't reach.
MCP for Template Creator CK is a Pro add-on for MCP for J that lets your AI client read and work on Template Creator CK templates. Thirty-six tools cover the template projects, the block tree and positions parsed out of the editor's canvas, per-block styles and CSS search, design tokens, responsive breakpoints, fonts, custom layouts, the generated files on disk, editor backups, and drift and health diagnostics. It ships no regenerate tool, and that's deliberate — Template Creator CK builds a template in the browser, so nothing running on the server can trigger a rebuild. Every tool that writes to the project says so in its own response rather than letting you believe a change has gone live.
MCP for StageIt is a free add-on for MCP for J that drives your StageIt staging environment from your AI client. Eleven tools cover status and prechecks, the backup snapshots StageIt takes on your behalf, and the four operations that actually move things — deploy, sync, remove and restore. Each of those four is chunked and hands back a resume token, so an operation too big to finish inside your server's PHP time limit can be driven to the end across several calls instead of stopping halfway. It's new, it's still being tested, and on a big site or a tight shared host it can still run out of time — there's an honest section on that below, and you should read it before you point this at anything you care about.