WordPress Agent Skills

Build, review, and operate WordPress projects with the WordPress team’s guidance.

The official library covers project triage, plugins, blocks, themes, patterns, REST and Abilities APIs, the Interactivity API, performance, testing, and operations.

Use cases

• Develop WordPress plugins, blocks, or themes
• Review API integration and site performance
• Test and operate a WordPress project

How to use

Provide the WordPress project and let wordpress-router select the workflow. Prepare the project’s PHP and Node toolchain, WP-CLI, or wp-env as required.

Skills

• blueprint

  Use when the deliverable is WordPress Playground Blueprint JSON or a Blueprint bundle, including creating, editing, reviewing, validating schema keys, choosing steps/resources, and debugging Blueprint files. For only running or sharing a Playground environment, use wp-playground.

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• wordpress-router

  Use when the user asks about WordPress codebases (plugins, themes, block themes, Gutenberg blocks, WP core checkouts) and you need to quickly classify the repo and route to the correct workflow/skill (blocks, theme.json, REST API, WP-CLI, performance, security, testing, release packaging).

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• wp-abilities-api

  Use when working with the WordPress Abilities API (wp_register_ability, wp_register_ability_category, /wp-json/wp-abilities/v1/*, @wordpress/abilities) including defining abilities, categories, meta, REST exposure, and permissions checks for clients.

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• wp-abilities-audit

  Audit a WordPress plugin's REST surface and produce a standardized audit document proposing Abilities API registrations. Produces a markdown doc with a YAML schema and prose sections that humans and agents can both consume when planning a registration rollout. Works on any WP plugin.

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• wp-abilities-verify

  Verify a WordPress plugin's Abilities API registrations: enumerate abilities, check that callback behavior matches each annotation's claim (the adversarial readonly-but-writes detection), validate permissions and schemas, and validate audit documents produced by wp-abilities-audit.

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• wp-block-development

  Use when developing WordPress (Gutenberg) blocks: block.json metadata, register_block_type(_from_metadata), attributes/serialization, supports, dynamic rendering (render.php/render_callback), deprecations/migrations, viewScript vs viewScriptModule, and @wordpress/scripts/@wordpress/create-block build and test workflows.

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• wp-block-themes

  Use when developing WordPress block themes: theme.json (global settings/styles), templates and template parts, patterns, style variations, and Site Editor troubleshooting (style hierarchy, overrides, caching).

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• wp-env

  Use when setting up, configuring, or troubleshooting local WordPress development environments with @wordpress/env (wp-env). Triggers on mentions of wp-env, local WordPress development, Docker-based WordPress, or requests to start/stop/configure a local WordPress instance.

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• wp-interactivity-api

  Use when building or debugging WordPress Interactivity API features (data-wp-* directives, @wordpress/interactivity store/state/actions, block viewScriptModule integration, wp_interactivity_*()) including performance, hydration, and directive behavior.

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• wp-patterns

  Pattern: create or update WordPress block patterns (starter pages, templates, template parts, Query Loop layouts), review pattern registration, block markup, categories, accessibility, or i18n/escaping, or improve pattern design quality. Route custom blocks to wp-block-development; route frontend interactivity to wp-interactivity-api.

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• wp-performance

  Use when investigating or improving WordPress performance (backend-only agent): profiling and measurement (WP-CLI profile/doctor, Server-Timing, Query Monitor via REST headers), database/query optimization, autoloaded options, object caching, cron, HTTP API calls, and safe verification.

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• wp-phpstan

  Use when configuring, running, or fixing PHPStan static analysis in WordPress projects (plugins/themes/sites): phpstan.neon setup, baselines, WordPress-specific typing, and handling third-party plugin classes.

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• wp-playground

  Use as the WordPress Playground routing wrapper for ambiguous Playground work, local CLI runs with @wp-playground/cli, playground.wordpress.net share links, browser previews, WebMCP site tools, snapshots, mounts, version switching, and Xdebug. For Blueprint JSON authoring or review, use the blueprint skill directly.

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• wp-plugin-development

  Use when developing WordPress plugins: architecture and hooks, activation/deactivation/uninstall, admin UI and Settings API, data storage, cron/tasks, security (nonces/capabilities/sanitization/escaping), and release packaging.

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• wp-plugin-directory-guidelines

  Use when reviewing WordPress plugins for GPL compliance, checking license headers or compatibility, evaluating upsell/freemium/trialware patterns, validating plugin naming or trademark rules, checking plugin slugs, understanding why a plugin was rejected from WordPress.org, or answering any question about the 18 WordPress.org Plugin Directory guidelines — even if the user doesn't mention 'guidelines' explicitly.

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• wp-project-triage

  Use when you need a deterministic inspection of a WordPress repository (plugin/theme/block theme/WP core/Gutenberg/full site) including tooling/tests/version hints, and a structured JSON report to guide workflows and guardrails.

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• wp-rest-api

  Use when building, extending, or debugging WordPress REST API endpoints/routes: register_rest_route, WP_REST_Controller/controller classes, schema/argument validation, permission_callback/authentication, response shaping, register_rest_field/register_meta, or exposing CPTs/taxonomies via show_in_rest.

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• wp-wpcli-and-ops

  Use when working with WP-CLI (wp) for WordPress operations: safe search-replace, db export/import, plugin/theme/user/content management, cron, cache flushing, multisite, and scripting/automation with wp-cli.yml.

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• wpds

  Use when building UIs leveraging the WordPress Design System (WPDS) and its components, tokens, patterns, etc.

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