WordPress has official Agent Skills for AI Coding Agent
I came across this a few weeks ago and have been using it daily since. Worth sharing with the community.
The WordPress team have published a repo called agent-skills on GitHub: https://github.com/WordPress/agent-skills
The idea is simple. AI agents are terrible at WordPress by default. They generate pre-Gutenberg patterns, skip block deprecations, ignore security basics in plugins, and miss the tooling already sitting in your repo. Agent Skills can fix that by giving your AI agent a curated set of instructions, checklists, and scripts pulled directly from official Gutenberg and WordPress documentation.
What is included right now:
- Block development (block.json, attributes, deprecations)
- Block themes (theme.json, templates, patterns)
- Plugin architecture, hooks, security
- REST API routes, schema, auth
- Interactivity API
- PHPStan for WordPress
- WP-CLI and ops
- Performance and caching
- WordPress Design System
- Plugin Directory guidelines
- WordPress Playground and Blueprints
You install it globally or drop it into your repo and it works across preferred AI agent.
On top of these official skills, I also built a custom skill that layers in my own development workflow. Things like how I structure projects, the standards I follow, and the patterns I consistently use. The result is that my AI agent now codes the way I would. It has noticeably cut down the back and forth during development.
The repo is at 1.5k stars and accepting contributions. Skills are written in Markdown so you do not need to be deep into Node to contribute.
If you are doing serious WordPress development with AI tools in 2026 and not using this yet, it is worth an hour of your time to set up.
Link: https://github.com/WordPress/agent-skills
Curious if anyone else here has tried it or built custom skills on top.