This course is the conceptual and environmental groundwork for everything else in this track. No heavy coding here, the goal is a working local WordPress AI development environment and a clear mental model of how the Abilities API, the MCP Adapter, the Model Context Protocol, and the PHP AI Client SDK actually relate to each other, before you write a single line of production code.
If you already know what an “ability” is, what MCP tools/resources/prompts are, and which of these four pieces ships in WordPress core versus as a separate plugin, you can probably skip ahead to Build a WordPress MCP Server From Scratch. If any of that was unclear, start here.