This week’s AI contributor meeting focused on 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. progress, release planning leading up to WordPress 7.0, contributor onboarding, and testing priorities for upcoming AI 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. releases.

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Announcements

• The AI plugin release cadence remains on track with releases planned approximately every two weeks leading up to WordPress 7.0
• @gajendrasingh shared that they have sponsored contribution time for the AI project and are looking to become more involved with contributor workflows and ongoing initiatives

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MCP Adapter

• Continued work preparing the MCP adapter for release as a standalone WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ plugin
• Current focus areas include plugin polish, documentation, and preparing the WordPress.org submission process
• Additional coordination is planned around maintainership and ownership responsibilities for related WordPress Agent Skills work

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.

• Work continues on slug fragments for the Abilities API, targeted for further progress once commits reopen following the current release cycle
• Additional abilities-related issues are being collected to improve roadmap visibility and prioritization

AI Plugin

• The team confirmed plans for AI 0.9.0 the following week and one additional release prior to WordPress 7.0 on May 20
• The final release before 7.0 may become either 0.10.0 or 1.0.0 depending on readiness and scope

Testing & Stability

• Additional testing is now considered a top priority before WordPress 7.0
• Contributors were encouraged to test the AI plugin with popular themes and plugins including Yoast, Elementor, and Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)
• Focus is currently shifting toward refinement, edge-case handling, compatibility testing, and bug fixes
• The group agreed that polishing existing functionality is currently more important than introducing new experiments

Connector Approval Experiment

• @dkotter shared updates on an experimental proof-of-concept PR focused on preventing plugins from accessing a user’s OpenAI connection without approval
• The work explores approaches for improving connector security and user trust within the AI connector system
• Contributors were asked to help with code review, functional testing, and feedback on implementation approaches

ProviderProvider An AI service offering models for generation, embeddings, or other capabilities (e.g., Anthropic, Google, OpenAI). & Model Selection

• Work is also underway on a feature allowing users to select providers and models on a feature-by-feature basis rather than relying entirely on automatic model selection
• The discussion acknowledged tradeoffs between simplicity for most users and advanced configurability for power users

WordPress Agent Skills Maintainership

• Contributors discussed the need for clearer ownership and maintainership for the WordPress Agent Skills project following shifts in contributor availability
• Additional conversations with project leadership are planned to clarify ownership, review expectations, quality control workflows, and long-term stewardship

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Next Steps

• Continue preparing the MCP adapter for WordPress.org release
• Coordinate maintainership discussions for WordPress Agent Skills
• Continue AI plugin compatibility testing across popular plugins and themes
• Review and test the connector approval experiment PR
• Finalize and share the provider/model selection PR for contributor feedback
• Facilitate the upcoming 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/ office hours and show-and-tell session

Upcoming meetings

Folks are welcome to join on Wednesday’s at 1700 UTC via Google Meet with in-meeting notes captured in a Slack Canvas and then paired with Gemini meeting notes to help generate this meeting summary post. All team meetings are published to https://make.wordpress.org/meetings/#ai.

• The next bi-weekly AI Team Office Hours Slack discussion is scheduled for 30 April 2026.
• The next weekly AI Contributor weekly Google Meet video call is scheduled for 6 May 2026.

Props to @neel33 for pre-publish review.

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