WordPress AI Plugin 0.7.0 adds content classification that can stick to your existing terms, context-aware meta descriptions, bulk alt text in the Media Library, and a filter for system instructions.
WordPress 7.0 ships three pieces of AI plumbing: the Abilities API for registering what a site can do, the AI Client for provider-agnostic model calls, and the MCP Adapter that exposes both to assistants like Claude.
Vectorless RAG is accurate, slow, and expensive to index. Proxy-Pointer RAG puts the document structure into the embeddings and metadata instead: regex skeleton trees, breadcrumbs on every chunk, and pointers back to the full section.
Claude Code will scaffold a WordPress plugin faster than you can spec one, which is the problem. The workflow I use: a CLAUDE.md spec first, the terminal agent second, and a manual review of everything before it ships.
Two bad defaults for agent UIs: hide everything behind a spinner, or stream every raw log. What I map instead, and how I decide which agent decisions a user actually needs to see.
The Core AI team has a draft guide for anyone presenting on Abilities, the AI Client or the MCP Adapter at a WordCamp or meetup. Comments on it close on 21 April 2026.
Embedding models turn text into coordinates, and that is what vector search is really matching on. This covers tokenization, chunking, cosine similarity and fine-tuning a model so it fits your own catalog rather than the general web.
AI tools guess at your store because they cannot see it. MCP gives them real context: your files, your data, your WP-CLI. We talk it through at WooCommerce office hours on April 15, 2026, on Slack.
Pinecone and Chroma are a lot of machinery for a few hundred Markdown notes. The Google Memory Agent Pattern keeps structured memories in SQLite, consolidates them in the background, and loads them straight into a large context window.
Most people run one Claude Code agent and then wait for it. Git worktrees let you keep several going in separate folders on the same repo. How I lay that out in Warp or Tmux, plus the shared local database problem nobody warns you about.