WP Product Talk How WordPress Plugins can Leverage Core AI Technology
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Feb 3, 2026 
Jason Adams, Core AI contributor at Automattic helping integrate AI into WordPress. He walks through what core AI components are shipping now and the Abilities API. They cover provider-agnostic PHP clients, opt-in MCP choices, embeddings and vector storage, privacy and sanitization responsibilities, and how plugins can register and discover AI capabilities.
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Provider-Agnostic AI Client
- Core AI provides a provider-agnostic client so plugins can call many AI providers without coupling to one.
- This preserves choice and lets sites control which provider and compliance level they use.
Abilities API As A Public Primitive
- The Abilities API is a fundamental primitive that standardizes how plugins declare public actions for AI and other contexts.
- It enables discovery and multi-context use (REST, MCP, command palette) from a single declaration.
One-Click Excerpt Demo
- The AI experiments plugin demonstrates small-value features like generating post excerpts with one click.
- Jason Adams highlighted this as a simple UX that hides AI complexity from users.