WordPress Agent Skills
Official WordPress skills: blocks, themes, plugins, REST API, WP-CLI and more.
About
WordPress Agent Skills is the official skill collection from the WordPress organization, published in the WordPress/agent-skills repository under GPL-2.0. It contains 17 skills covering block development, block themes, plugin development, the REST API, the Interactivity API, the Abilities API (including audit and verify skills), WP-CLI and ops, performance, PHPStan, Playground, the WordPress Design System, and plugin directory guidelines.
With around 1,800 stars and a security-audited pure-docs structure (no scripts, no secrets), it is the core WordPress-development foundation for AI coding assistants, installable via the repo's skillpack build and install scripts into ~/.claude/skills/.
What it can do
- 17 official skills: blocks, block themes, plugins, REST and Interactivity APIs
- WP-CLI/ops, performance profiling, PHPStan, and Playground environments
- Abilities API skills for capability-based permissions and REST auth
Setup
Clone the WordPress/agent-skills repo, build with node shared/scripts/skillpack-build.mjs, and install globally with skillpack-install.mjs.
Prerequisites
A coding agent supporting the Agent Skills format; Node.js for the skillpack scripts.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 8/10
Scored 8/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: Verified via vendor site/docs/GitHub and reputable coverage, wave 78; Trending score 80/100 from researcher assessment.
Sources
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