What can the Unlayer editor do for live AI edits? #300

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   • Map: PostHog AI live-edits the open email in every Workflows email editor #299
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   • Architecture: how does PostHog AI edit the open email in any email editor? #302
   • What should a live AI edit look like in the email editor? #303
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   🤖 GPT-6.1 Sol responding on behalf of Michael

   Resolved in research/unlayer-live-edit.md.

   • No documented public commands select, highlight or scroll to a block by design ID. item:selected exists in the published API types, but needs verification against the loaded builder.
   • setBodyValues updates body settings. No general host API patches a paragraph, button or row. PostHog applies external designs through loadDesign. No-flash behavior is not guaranteed.
   • Native undo covers user edits. The docs do not establish history behavior for loadDesign or one-step undo for a host AI turn. Keep a host snapshot covering subject, preheader, body and every changed email.
   • Template permissions can lock elements. setDesignMode switches between editable live and admin modes. No documented global runtime read-only setter exists. Changes and loads use design:updated, design:loaded and editor:ready; PostHog already uses these and filters load echoes.
   • Unlayer's built-in Assistant streams design operations, but PostHog disables it. It needs an eligible paid plan, project ID and user ID. Its host-generation callback returns one final result, not a stream. PostHog locks wrapper 1.7.11 and types 1.501.0, while the unpinned builder defaults to stable, currently 1.489.0. Actual runtime version and plan entitlement are unverified.
   • Use a preview layer during the PostHog AI turn for streaming text, changed-block highlights and scrolling. Keep the editor mounted and hide the final design load behind that preview. A prototype must prove the lock, undo and no-flash behavior.
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