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

Documentation

• https://github.com/Automattic/agent-skills/tree/trunk/skills/wp-plugin-development

Source

• Agent Skill Exchange