Tammie Lister 10:31 am on 5 September 2025
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AI Chat Summary – 4 September 2025

Location: #core-ai Slack Channel 

Agenda: No agenda this week

The bi-weekly CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. AI meeting was held on 4 September , 2025:

WCUS & 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/.

@jeffpaul highlighted the recent face‑to‑face sessions on the Core AI table at 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 and thanked @justlevine for coordinating remote participation.

Handbook & Badge Development

@karmatosed facilitated work on refining the AI handbook and creating the WordPress AI badge. There are a number of new pages for the handbook including the Contributing badge page.

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/preface.php. AI Client – 0.1.0 MVPMinimum Viable Product "A minimum viable product (MVP) is a product with just enough features to satisfy early customers, and to provide feedback for future product development." - WikiPedia & Roadmap

@jason_the_adams announced the 0.1.0 MVP release for the PHP AI Client, with a demo shown on stage. The demo code is on 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/: https://github.com/felixarntz/wp-ai-sdk-chatbot-demo
Roadmap items for versions 0.2.0–0.4.0 are on the issue board: https://github.com/WordPress/php-ai-client/issues/8

Project Updates

WP‑Specific Layer – WordPress AI Client

@flixos90 explained progress on wp‑ai‑client: the layer adapts the generic PHP SDK to WordPress, adds a settings screen for APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. credentials, and provides REST endpoints for client‑side usage. The project is in early work‑in‑progress; interested contributors can follow issue #1: https://github.com/WordPress/wp-ai-client/issues/1

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. & WP 6.9 Timeline

@jeffpaul noted that the Abilities API effort is the most urgent for the WP 6.9 BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 1 release on October 21. @karmatosed applied a milestone to the issue, giving the team a sense of time. @isotropic is working on the roadmap with @karmatosed for this week’s priority.

AI Experiments Canonical 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

@jeffpaul shared work is going on to create a GitHub issue that consolidates the roadmap and a high‑level list of planned features. Feedback from Contributor Day is welcome, and a formal roadmap issue will be added next week.

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