This week’s AI contributor meeting focused on MCP adapter progress, release planning leading up to WordPress 7.0, contributor onboarding, and testing priorities for upcoming AI plugin releases.
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
MCP Adapter
- Continued work preparing the MCP adapter for release as a standalone 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 API
- 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
Provider & 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
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 Slack 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.