AI Chat Agenda – 12 June 2025

The next WordPress AI Chat will take place on Thursday June 12, 2025 at 16:00 UTC in the core-ai channel on Make WordPress Slack.

The live meeting will focus on what we plan to build and have an open floor section.  The various curated agenda sections below refer to additional items.

Announcements

Discussions

The discussion section of the agenda is for discussing important topics affecting the newly formed AI Team and their forthcoming initiatives.  To nominate a topic for discussion, please leave a comment on this agenda with a summary of the topic, any relevant links that will help people get context for the discussion, and what kind of feedback you are looking for from others participating in the discussion.

Team introductions

  • James LePage (co-Team RepTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts.) – Automattic
  • Felix Arntz (co-Team Rep) – Google
  • Pascal Birchler – Google
  • Jeffrey Paul – Fueled + 10up

Initial areas of focus

  • Showcase PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party
  • Provider-agnostic LLM client abstraction
  • Tool and resource definition/registration abstraction
  • Integration bridges

Cross-team collaboration

Begin identifying ways the AI team can collaborate with other Make Teams to bring AI-powered functionality and assistance to their needs.  Examples could be (1) assisting the Plugin Review Team with AI-based reviews in tandem with their human-based reviews, (2) assisting the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team (and others) with triaging tickets in their backlog.

Project Structure & Administration

Continue in-person discussions from WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe about repository management and distribution (Composer, GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ Discussions, monorepos, npm, etc.).

Next Steps

  • Goals for the next few weeks

Open floor

Any topic can be raised for discussion in the comments, please indicate whether you intend to be available during the meeting for discussion or will be async.

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