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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

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

Documentation

Developer docs.
Contributing Guidelines.

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

Milestones	State
Placeholder repository	created
Spec draft	created
Prototype plugin & Composer package	created
Community feedback (#core‑ai Slack)	created
Core proposal	in progress
Initial	created
WordPress 6.9	in progress

How to Get Involved

Discuss: #core-ai channel on WordPress Slack.
File issues: suggestions & use‑cases welcome in this repo.
Prototype: experiment with the feature plugin or the wordpress/abilities-api Composer package.

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.