I saw the AI connectors added in WP 7.0 as an opportunity to implement an agent loop. What I build feels like running claude code or cursor inside of WordPress and much easier to setup.
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TLDR: WP 7.0 lets you run an agent inside of WordPress.
I'm been working with WordPress 7.0 betas and RCs and I didn't understand what the new features were all about at first. The big new features is one new page for setting up AI connectors. But it was basically empty because there were no AI providers shipped with 7.0. You have to install them as separate plugins.
It just shipped something much better: a PHP AI SDK that can be used by any plugin. Paired with the new Abilities API all kinds of new things are possible.
Instead of every plugin bundling its own OpenAI/Anthropic/Google integration (with its own settings page, its own key storage, its own rate limiting), WordPress now has one canonical way to talk to AI providers.
You call wp_ai_client_prompt() and the SDK handles:
Connector plugins (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, local Ollama, etc.) register themselves once, and every AI-aware plugin on the site shares them.
> No more re-entering API keys in five plugins. No more "which plugin is burning my tokens?" No more provider lock-in.
The Abilities API lets any plugin register a capability — "save a memory", "search products", "draft an email", "publish a post" — as a structured, schema-described function. Each ability is just wp_register_ability() with an OpenAI-compatible JSON schema.
The magic: AI models can discover and call these abilities as tools. Your LLM doesn't need a custom integration with WooCommerce, Yoast, or Gravity Forms. It asks WordPress "what can I do here?" and gets back a tool catalogue.
This is the foundation for WordPress becoming an AI-native platform — not "a CMS with an AI plugin bolted on", but a substrate where agents can reason about and act on your entire site through standard interfaces. You don't need to setup several MCPs or any MCPs to start using AI agents with WordPress. The AI agent can run inside the admin.
Once I realized all the building blocks were in place I implemented an Agent loop using the WP 7.0 AI client. It worked better than I expected.
SD AI Agent is built entirely on these two APIs:
| Capability | How it's built |
|---|---|
| 30+ registered abilities (memory, skills, knowledge base, tool profiles, automations, benchmarking) | wp_register_ability() |
| Every model call | wp_ai_client_prompt() |
| Provider/model selection | WordPress Connectors API |
We wrote:
Just an agent loop and a the conversation UI on top. Takes advantage of any registered abilities from other plugins. The more plugins that add abilities the better it will become.
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