Start WordPress Playground

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Spin up a WordPress Playground instance with the plugin mounted and activated

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

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Then ask your AI: use the Start WordPress Playground skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by pluginslab/wp-agentic-admin in .claude/skills/playground/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Spin up an ephemeral WordPress Playground with agentic-admin mounted from the local working directory.

Important: Mount + Activation Gotchas

  • Do NOT include activatePlugin in the blueprint steps. Mounted directories are not available when blueprint steps execute, so activation will fail with "Plugin file does not exist."
  • Do NOT use mountBeforeInstall — it does not help; the mount is still unavailable at blueprint step time.
  • Always use an empty blueprint ({"steps": []}) with the mount option, then activate via WP-CLI after startup.

Steps

  1. Start Playground with an empty blueprint and mount the plugin:

    • Blueprint: {"steps": []}
    • Options: {"mount": ["<project-root>:/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/agentic-admin"]}
    • Where <project-root> is the current working directory
  2. Activate the plugin via WP-CLI (only after Playground is running):

    • plugin activate agentic-admin
  3. Report the URL and credentials to the user:

    • Site URL (typically http://127.0.0.1:9400)
    • Plugin page: <site-url>/wp-admin/admin.php?page=agentic-admin
    • Credentials: admin / password
  4. If any step fails, check logs with get_playground_logs and report the error.

Signals

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Last commit
Aug 2026
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Source
github.com/pluginslab/wp-agentic-admin