The WP Minute+ Inside the AI Team’s Big Plans for WordPress 7.0
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Feb 9, 2026 
Jason Adams, director of engineering for AI at Automattic and WordPress AI Team contributor, discusses the team's mission and core building blocks like the Abilities API, MCP adapter, and WPAI client. He covers how models safely request actions, paths for plugin developers, hosting-friendly AI setups, and the under‑the‑hood AI tools planned for WordPress 7.0.
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Jason's Recent Move To Automattic
- Jason joined Automattic 13 weeks earlier to lead engineering for AI and split roles with James LePage.
- He moved from contributing to core AI efforts into a director role to handle engineering while James remains strategic.
MCP Adapter Bridges Models And WordPress
- The MCP Adapter exposes declared abilities as safe, callable tools for external AI models.
- It maps abilities into MCP tools so models can request actions like publishing or updating posts.
Choose Your Integration Lane
- If you want your plugin controllable by AI, define abilities and expose them via the Abilities API and MCP.
- If you want to use AI yourself, use the WPAI client and its prompt builder to generate text or images with minimal setup.