Develop and harden WordPress plugins with lifecycle and security guardrails
Use Automattic's official wp-plugin-development skill when an agent needs to build, refactor, secure, or package a WordPress plugin with correct activation hooks, settings handling, uninstall behavior, and data hygiene. This is a plugin engineering playbook, not a generic WordPress listing.
Installation
Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- git clone https://github.com/WordPress/agent-skills.git
- git clone https://github.com/Automattic/agent-skills.git
Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- node shared/scripts/skillpack-build.mjs --clean
- node shared/scripts/skillpack-install.mjs --global
- node shared/scripts/skillpack-install.mjs --global --skills=wp-playground,wp-block-development
Basic usage or getting-started notes:
bash
Clone agent-skills
cd agent-skills
Source: https://github.com/Automattic/agent-skills/tree/trunk/skills/wp-plugin-development
Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Automattic/agent-skills/HEAD/README.md