Location: #core-ai Slack Channel
The bi-weekly Core AI meeting was held on October 16th, 2025:
- Abilities API Progress and Inclusion in WordPress 6.9
- @isotropic and @jason_the_adams led a discussion focused on the urgent need to finalize the Abilities API for inclusion in the upcoming WordPress 6.9 beta release, scheduled for the following week.
- Abilities API Hooks and Extensibility
- @jason_the_adams raised a discussion around the hooks needed to maintain an Abilities API plugin that can provide more bleeding edge features between core releases. @justlevine and @jason_the_adams agreed the current MVP hooks, like the *_args filter and unshaped meta, should allow for experimentation and future improvements.
- Abilities API Categories and Filtering
- @isotropic discussed the need for robust filtering of abilities, particularly for AI agents, but the group concluded the current category and meta system provides sufficient flexibility for now, with the responsibility of filtering abilities falling more on systems like MCP Adapter rather than the core Abilities API.
- Abilities API and AI Experiments
- @isotropic and @justlevine highlighted the need for abilities to support AI use cases, such as handling dates and inserting blocks, and encouraged @jmarx75 to create issues in the AI Experiments repo to propose new abilities. The group agreed these could start in experiments before potentially flowing into core.
- Abilities API Documentation and Terminology
- @karmatosed suggested adding a terms/glossary section to the Abilities API handbook to help provide clarity, and @justlevine referenced Tanstack’s “Philosophy” approach as a potential model for documenting the project’s beliefs and principles.