5 reviewed skills

WordPress AI agent skills for blocks, plugins and WP-CLI

These skills come from the WordPress project's own agent-skills repository. They cover the work an agent is most often asked to do on a WordPress site: building blocks and block themes, writing plugins, extending the REST API and running WP-CLI.

The repository says the skills were drafted with an AI model and then reviewed by WordPress contributors. They are licensed GPL-2.0-or-later, like WordPress itself.

WordPress skills

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WordPress (WordPress.org contributors) · Claude Code · OpenAI Codex · Cursor · VS Code / GitHub Copilot · any Agent Skills client via npx skills (repo README)

WordPress Block Development

A procedure for Gutenberg block work: run the repo triage script, locate blocks, then handle block.json metadata, registration, attributes and serialization, supports, dynamic rendering (render.php / render_callback), deprecations and migrations, viewScriptModule vs viewScript, and @wordpress/scripts / create-block build and test workflows, each backed by a reference file.

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WordPress (WordPress.org contributors) · Claude Code · OpenAI Codex · Cursor · VS Code / GitHub Copilot · any Agent Skills client via npx skills (repo README)

WordPress Plugin Development

Guides plugin architecture and hooks, activation/deactivation/uninstall, the Settings API and admin UI, data storage and cron, release packaging, and security fundamentals (nonces, capability checks, sanitization/escaping, $wpdb->prepare). It starts with a triage script to locate plugin entrypoints and asks for target WP/PHP versions and single-site vs multisite.

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WordPress (WordPress.org contributors) · Claude Code · OpenAI Codex · Cursor · VS Code / GitHub Copilot · any Agent Skills client via npx skills (repo README)

WordPress REST API

Guides building and debugging REST endpoints: register_rest_route and WP_REST_Controller classes, schema and argument validation, permission_callback and authentication modes (cookie+nonce, application passwords), response shaping, register_rest_field/register_meta, and exposing CPTs/taxonomies with show_in_rest. Includes a debugging path for 401/403/404 and nonce issues.

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WordPress (WordPress.org contributors) · Claude Code · OpenAI Codex · Cursor · VS Code / GitHub Copilot · any Agent Skills client via npx skills (repo README)

WordPress Block Themes

Covers block-theme work: theme.json presets/settings/styles, templates and template parts, patterns, style variations, and Site Editor troubleshooting (style hierarchy, user overrides stored in the DB, caching). It locates theme roots with a triage script and asks where the problem shows up (Site Editor, post editor, frontend).

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WordPress (WordPress.org contributors) · Claude Code · OpenAI Codex · Cursor · VS Code / GitHub Copilot · any Agent Skills client via npx skills (repo README)

WP-CLI Operations

Operational WordPress work through WP-CLI: safe search-replace for domain/protocol migrations, db export/import, plugin/theme/user management, cron, cache and rewrite flushing, multisite targeting (--url, --network) and wp-cli.yml automation. It requires the agent to establish environment (local/staging/production), site root and safety constraints before running write commands, with a dedicated safety reference.

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