CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.-AI Contributor Weekly check-in: September 3rd , 2025 @12 noon EST
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85296485830?pwd=u2QlmopcccfTu8zvLnUKLbg61kE4Ol.1

Announcements (5 min)

1. A very successful Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/ at WCUS :tada: :wordpress:
   1. Thank you, @justlevine, for keeping things lit remotely
2. PHP AI Client SDKPHP AI Client SDK A platform-agnostic library providing unified access to LLMs and embedding models from any major AI provider. Developed collaboratively with the PHP community. The WordPress AI Client SDK is the WordPress-specific package that adds REST API endpoints, API key management, and integrations through `AI_Client::prompt()`. is now available in its first release: https://github.com/WordPress/php-ai-client/releases/tag/0.1.0

Progress this week (5 min)

1. Update to the handbook:
   1. https://make.wordpress.org/ai/handbook/contributing/
   2. https://make.wordpress.org/ai/handbook/resources-and-links/
   3. https://make.wordpress.org/ai/handbook/get-involved/
   4. https://make.wordpress.org/ai/handbook/contributing/project-management/ (WIP)

Questions/Decision points (15 min)

1. New format for Weekly Check-in review proposal, based on comments in SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ and discussions at WCUS:
   1. Focus on updates from each of the projects (Project Facilitator + Lead)
   2. Review next Milestone – and tasks to support that milestone
   3. Blockers and Opportunities
2. High level – Let’s get an update on:
   1. Client/Abilities/MCP projects
3. Review of AI Client roadmap
4. From David: Review mcp-adapter status and next steps.
   1. Align on immediate fixes and workflows.
   2. Update v0.1.0 release notes to prevent user confusion.
5. Badges for Core AI – For now, contributors need to request themselves as per the instructions noted here. Jeff is working on being able to add a link himself
6. Reminder from Tammie: As we fix roadmaps, let’s also reflect those in the projects. We will do that but I want to ensure they get logged into traceable formats that can take action also.
7. Tomorrow’s biweekly Slack chat – we need a facilitator

Week’s goals (10 min)

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AI Generated Summary of the Call

The meeting focused on recapping the successful 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. US contributor day and setting up a new, more efficient format for future weekly check-ins. The team discussed the progress of various projects, including the PHP AI Client SDK, Abilities APIAbilities API A core WordPress API (introduced in 6.9) that creates a central registry of capabilities, making WordPress functions discoverable and accessible to AI agents, automation tools, and developers. Transforms WordPress from isolated functions into a unified system., and MCP AdapterMCP Adapter Translates WordPress abilities into Model Context Protocol format, allowing AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT to discover and invoke WordPress capabilities as tools, resources, and prompts., and identified key milestones and areas needing attention. They also established a plan for creating roadmaps for all projects and coordinating communication with different external audiences, such as 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. developers and hosts.

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Highlights by Topic

WordCamp US Contributor Day

• There were about 30 people at the contributor table, plus around a dozen people who joined online throughout the day.
• The attendees had diverse interests, ranging from general curiosity about AI to technical contributors trying to break the PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. https://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php client.
• The team learned that having specific roles for contributors would be beneficial for future events, such as WordCamp Asia.

Project Updates & Roadmaps

• PHP AI Client SDK: Version 0.1.0 was released just before Matt’s presentation at WordCamp US, with significant help from contributors at the event. The roadmap for version 0.2.0 focuses on battle-testing the client, improving providerProvider An AI service offering models for generation, embeddings, or other capabilities (e.g., Anthropic, Google, OpenAI). settings, and adding a message builder. Version 0.3.0 will introduce streaming support, and a later version will include embeddings.
• Abilities API: Version 0.1.0 was also released before WordCamp US. The next major discussion points are determining which abilities will be included in WordPress 6.9 and working on hooksHooks In WordPress theme and development, hooks are functions that can be applied to an action or a Filter in WordPress. Actions are functions performed when a certain event occurs in WordPress. Filters allow you to modify certain functions. Arguments used to hook both filters and actions look the same. to expand its functionality.
• MCP Adapter: The main bottleneck is currently code review, which has created a small backlog. There are also discrepancies between the current code and the documentation that need to be aligned.
• Experiments Project: This project is progressing and will hopefully feed into the other projects. The team plans to formalize its roadmap and establish a process for non-code-related discussions and issues.

Meeting Format & Future Goals

• The weekly check-in format will shift to focus on active projects, with each project having a lead facilitator.
• The meetings will highlight upcoming milestones, specific tasks, and any blockers or opportunities to help.
• The team will create and pin roadmap issues in each project’s 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 by the repository owner. https://github.com/ repository to provide clarity and track progress.
• Project ownership for creating these roadmaps was assigned: Neill McShea and James LePage for MCP, Jason Adams and Felix for the JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com client, and Tammy Lister for Abilities and Jeff Paul for Experiments.

Communication & Documentation

Jason Adams will draft the first of these posts to help set the direction and format.nerated summary posted after the meeting

The team decided to coordinate communication with different audiences, such as plugin developers and hosts, to maintain a clear and consistent narrative.

They will use the Make WordPress blog to post audience-specific articles and collect feedback directly in the comments.

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