There is a ton going with WordPress Core and AI right now and it’s hard to keep up. I wanted to write a post collecting some of my thoughts together in a single place for myself and others.
Over the past year, the core team put in some serious work. Let’s review:
- WP AI PHP SDK
- WP MCP
- AI Experiments Plugin
Before wp-cli & Agent Skills, I wasn’t having much luck using Claude Code with WordPress. I think with these two additions, it was pretty clear it gave Claude the necessary – dare I say skills – necessary to perform the required write actions to the SQL database to do things like install the plugins I asked for, create and execute scripts to make pages, and interact with the theme.json and create stuff in the Block editor like patterns in bulk.
Install and try it now
For those who want to try it in Claude Code, Codex, or another AI agent, installation requires Node.js and npm and looks like this:
# Run this in a project directory to install the skills for that project
npx openskills install WordPress/agent-skills
# Make skills available to non-Claude agents
npx openskills sync
