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WordPress/abilities-api

Abilities API

Part of the AI Building Blocks for WordPress initiative

Overview

  • Purpose: provide a common way for WordPress core, plugins, and themes to describe what they can do ("abilities") in a machine‑readable, human‑friendly form.
  • Scope: discovery, permissioning, and execution metadata only. Actual business logic stays inside the registering component.
  • Audience: plugin & theme authors, agency builders, and future AI / automation tools.

Design Goals

  1. Discoverability - every ability can be listed, queried, and inspected.
  2. Interoperability - a uniform schema lets unrelated components compose workflows.
  3. Security‑first - explicit permissions determine who/what may invoke an ability.
  4. Gradual adoption - ships first as a Composer package, migrates smoothly to core.

Developer Documentation

Inspiration

  • wp‑feature‑api - shared vision of declaring capabilities at the PHP layer.
  • Command Palette experiments in Gutenberg.
  • Modern AI assistant protocols (MCP, A2A).

Current Status

Milestone State
Placeholder repository created
Spec draft in progress
Prototype plugin & Composer package in progress
Community feedback (#core‑ai Slack) planned
Core proposal planned

How to Get Involved

  • Discuss: #core-ai channel on WordPress Slack.
  • File issues: suggestions & use‑cases welcome in this repo.
  • Prototype: experiment with the upcoming Composer package once released.

License

WordPress is free software, and is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or (at your option) any later version. See LICENSE.md for complete license.



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