Location: #core-ai Slack Channel
Agenda: AI Chat Agenda – 24 July 2025
The bi-weekly WordPress Core AI meeting on July 24, 2025, focused on the AI Building Blocks roadmap. Key celebrations included the publication of the roadmap, all four repositories going live, the first PHP AI Client PR being merged, and the growing community interest.
The four interconnected AI Building Blocks discussed are:
- PHP AI Client: A provider-agnostic LLM interface that provides a unified way to interact with LLMs, inferring model requirements based on prompts.
- Abilities API: Creates a central registry for WordPress capabilities, making them discoverable and accessible to AI agents and automation tools. This transforms WordPress into a unified system for AI interaction and will allow plugins to expose their functionalities. A key consideration is ensuring careful implementation when AI agents are given editing abilities, potentially leveraging the Revisions API.
- MCP Adapter: Implements the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect WordPress with external AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT, enabling them to discover and execute actions on a WordPress site. WordPress aims to act as both an MCP server (exposing its functionality) and client (connecting to other MCP servers).
- AI Experiments: A plugin that brings all AI Building Blocks together into practical implementations, serving as WordPress’s AI laboratory and a reference for developers. (This segment was cut short due to time constraints but details were provided for async exploration).
Discussions also touched upon:
- Local AI Inference: The PHP Client will support local models, with specifics on how this will be surfaced in the AI Experiments plugin yet to be determined.
- Privacy: The use of site-specific WordPress data by AI agents raises privacy concerns, emphasizing the need for isolated and smart implementations.
- PHP Version Support: The current PHP AI Client is built with PHP 7.4 backward compatibility, with plans to align with WordPress Core’s PHP requirements when considering merging into Core.
- Distribution Strategy: The AI Building Blocks will be distributed as Canonical and Feature Plugins using Composer packages, allowing developers to use them in production before potential inclusion in WordPress Core.
Attendees were encouraged to continue discussions on GitHub issues for the individual projects and in the #core-ai Slack channel. The next chat is scheduled for August 7.