March 5, 2026 Uncategorized

Your WordPress Site Needs Agent Skills

What Are Agent Skills?

When you install a browser extension, your browser gets new capabilities — ad blocking, password management, translation. Agent Skills are the same concept for AI assistants. They’re downloadable instruction packs that teach AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and Copilot how to work with specific services.

The Rootz AI Discovery Skill teaches AI agents how to discover, read, verify, and score websites that implement the /.well-known/ai standard. Once installed, an AI assistant doesn’t have to guess how to interact with your site — it already knows.

Why WordPress Operators Should Care

You’ve installed the AI Discovery plugin. Your site serves structured endpoints. AI agents can discover your identity, search your content, read your pages, and verify your data. But here’s the gap: the AI agent visiting your site might not know any of that exists.

Think of it this way: your site is a restaurant with a full menu, but the AI agent walked in without a menu and is guessing what to order.

Agent Skills solve this. When an AI assistant has the AI Discovery Skill installed:

  • It knows to check /.well-known/ai first, not scrape your HTML
  • It knows how to parse the manifest and understand your organization
  • It knows about searchContent, getPage, and verifyPageHash
  • It can score your site’s AI readiness and suggest improvements
  • It can verify content integrity by checking SHA-256 hashes

The skill is also the world’s first cryptographically signed Agent Skill. Every file in the skill pack has a SHA-256 hash recorded in a signed manifest, with a rollup hash anchored on Polygon. An AI can verify the skill itself hasn’t been tampered with.

How to Install the Skill

For Claude Code Users

  1. Download the skill: ai-discovery.zip
  2. Extract to your project’s .claude/skills/ directory
  3. The skill activates automatically when Claude Code starts
  4. Try it: ask Claude to “check the AI readiness of example.com”

For Cursor / VS Code Users

  1. Download and extract the skill
  2. Place the SKILL.md file in your project root or .cursor/ directory
  3. The AI assistant will read it as context

For Site Visitors (WebMCP)

If your visitors use Chrome 146+ with AI features enabled, there’s an even simpler path: WebMCP.

WebMCP is a browser-native protocol that lets websites register tools directly with the user’s AI assistant. No download, no installation — the tools are available as soon as the visitor loads your page.

The Rootz AI Discovery plugin already emits WebMCP-compatible tool definitions. When WebMCP is enabled in your plugin settings (Tools tab), any visitor with a WebMCP-capable browser can use your site’s tools — search your content, read your pages, verify your data — through their AI assistant, automatically.

What the Skill Teaches AI

The AI Discovery Skill includes:

  • SKILL.md — Main instructions: how to fetch, parse, and verify /.well-known/ai
  • SPECIFICATION.md — The full AI Discovery Standard v1.2
  • GRADING.md — 120-point scoring rubric across 5 tiers
  • EXAMPLES.md — Real-world examples of ai.json implementations
  • rootz-discover.py — Python script for programmatic discovery
  • rootz-verify.py — Python script for content verification
  • skill-manifest.json — Signed manifest with SHA-256 hashes of every file

The Bigger Picture

Agent Skills and /.well-known/ai work together as two halves of the same system:

  • The plugin makes your site readable, searchable, and verifiable by AI
  • The skill makes AI agents literate in the protocol

As more sites deploy the standard and more AI tools install the skill, every AI assistant becomes better at understanding every participating site. It’s a network effect — each new site makes the skill more useful, and each new skill installation makes the standard more valuable.

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