Announcements (5 min)

Progress this week

Abilities update (@karmatosed )

Milestones:

• Added a v0.1.2: which is next for pre 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. (more milestones to come)
• Added an 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. board to monitor what is going on with project and include all milestones. https://github.com/orgs/WordPress/projects/252/views/1

Info:
Using board to surface:
https://github.com/orgs/WordPress/projects/252/views/2?sliceBy%5BcolumnId%5D=Milestone

• Lots of ‘tasks’ which is great but could be good to focus getting them out of repo this week.
• Needs dev: 1 task: https://github.com/orgs/WordPress/projects/252/views/2?sliceBy%5BcolumnId%5D=Milestone&pane=issue&itemId=128055326&issue=WordPress%7Cabilities-api%7C16
• Needs review: 1 https://github.com/WordPress/abilities-api/pull/60
• Community question: https://make.wordpress.org/ai/2025/07/17/abilities-api/#comment-47

Experiments Update (@jeffpaul)

Milestones:

• TBD

Info:

• Assembling additional issues with feature definition and mockups
• Compiling overall Agenda issue to link out to various sub-issues for milestone releases ahead of WP 6.9
• Synthesizing existing issue feedback to iterate on definition & mockups
• Scaffold 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 & being building out features

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. Update (@jeffpaul)

Milestones:

• TBD

Info:

• Assembling additional issues with feature definition and mockups
• Compiling overall Agenda issue to link out to various sub-issues for milestone releases ahead of WP 6.9
• Synthesizing existing issue feedback to iterate on definition & mockups
• Scaffold plugin & being building out features

Questions/Decision points (15 min)

Week’s goals (10 min)

1. (Start) Roadmaps for all projects in 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/
   1. Abilities – James, Tammie : get roadmap out or pass out trying
   2. MCP – Neill, James, Ovi (Neill did not make progress on this, last week 🙁 )
   3. Experiments – Jeff
   4. Client JS Package: Jason, Felix

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