Location: Weekly on Zoom
Announcements (5 min)
- No major announcements this week
Progress this week (5 min)
- Great progress wrapping up PHP Client foundation
Questions/Decision points (15 min)
- Ideal content to cover in presentation & panel @ WCUS
- From David Levine: Whether to target PHP7.4 with the Abilities API / MCP (versus 7.2, since Matt is seemingly considering punting the minimum PHP bump ). My vote is yes, but it needs a real decision.
- Update on that PR is that I plan to have that rebased on trunk instead of Greg’s draft PR before you EST folks start your mornings tomorrow, so should be ready for final code review/merge and we got tooling in place.
Week’s goals (5 min)
- PHP Client
- Add ability to register Providers
- Progress on base (Open AI style) Provider
- Begin work on Prompt Builder
- AI Experiments plugin
- Adjust product definition & designs from bi-weekly AI chat
- Finalize initial takes & publish as GH issues
Gemini Generated Summary
The Core AI team meeting began with a discussion about wrapping up the PHP Client Foundation work, with a key pull request pending for completion. The main topic of the meeting was a discussion prompted by David (@justlevine) about whether to target PHP 7.4 or 7.2 for the Abilities API within the WordPress core. The team noted that since the Abilities API is intended for WordPress 6.9, it must be compatible with PHP 7.2, the current core requirement. They decided to move forward with this plan while keeping an eye on a related core ticket that might change the minimum PHP version, allowing for a potential upgrade to 7.4 later.
Other discussions included planning for content to cover in a presentation and panel at WordCamp US, with a focus on generating excitement and encouraging contributions. The team also discussed the AI Experiments plugin, differentiating between “integrated AI” and “chat AI” models, and decided to create a GitHub issue to collect use cases and feedback from the community. Finally, there was a brief discussion about establishing a process for awarding badges to AI team contributors, with plans to document the criteria in the handbook.
Highlights
Summary
The Core AI team meeting began with a discussion about wrapping up the PHP Client Foundation work, with a key pull request pending for completion. The main topic of the meeting was a discussion prompted by David about whether to target PHP 7.4 or 7.2 for the Abilities API within the WordPress core. The team noted that since the Abilities API is intended for WordPress 6.9, it must be compatible with PHP 7.2, the current core requirement. They decided to move forward with this plan while keeping an eye on a related core ticket that might change the minimum PHP version, allowing for a potential upgrade to 7.4 later.
Other discussions included planning for content to cover in a presentation and panel at WordCamp US, with a focus on generating excitement and encouraging contributions. The team also discussed the AI Experiments plugin, differentiating between “integrated AI” and “chat AI” models, and decided to create a GitHub issue to collect use cases and feedback from the community. Finally, there was a brief discussion about establishing a process for awarding badges to AI team contributors, with plans to document the criteria in the handbook.
Highlights by Subject
PHP Client and Abilities API
- The team is close to finishing the foundation work for the PHP Client, with only one pull request left to merge.
- The Abilities API is intended to be included in WordPress core for version 6.9.
- To be compatible with core, the Abilities API may need to target PHP 7.2, not 7.4, as the minimum version.
- The team will monitor a core track ticket regarding the minimum PHP version and is confident that they can adjust the API to a higher version if necessary in the future.
- The MCP and AI Client will continue to target PHP 7.4 for now.
AI Experiments Plugin
- There’s a conversation about the direction of the AI Experiments plugin, specifically whether to focus on “integrated AI” (AI-powered features like a button or a menu option) or “chat AI” (a conversational chat experience).
- The consensus is to initially focus on integrated AI features, as they offer quick wins and are easier to implement.
- The chat feature, while powerful for higher-level, multi-task commands, is considered a later-stage goal.
- A new issue will be created in the WordPress/AI repository to collect use cases and feedback from the community, including examples of good and bad implementations, to guide the design and development of the plugin’s user experience.
WordCamp US and Contributor Badges
The team plans to define a process for awarding AI team contributor badges, with a focus on making it easy for administrators to verify contributions. They will document this process in the new handbook.
The team needs to prepare content for a presentation and panel at WordCamp US to excite attendees and encourage them to contribute.
A new handbook page is being created to serve as a resource for contributors, potentially including links to talks and documentation.