Saddle skills

Skills that teach any AI agent to work on a WordPress site safely through Saddle, the self-hosted WordPress MCP server.

Saddle turns your own WordPress into an MCP server: nothing goes through a third party, nothing runs agent code, and every destructive step shows a preview and waits for your approval. These skills give the agent the protocol that goes with it — check the connection, orient, preview, confirm, verify, undo — so it works on a live site the way a careful developer would.

They are plain Agent Skills (SKILL.md), so they work in Claude Code, Claude, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw, Grok Build and any other agent that reads the format.

Install

Any agent (the skills installer picks the agents it finds on your computer):

npx skills add plugpressco/saddle-skills

Add -g to install for your user instead of the current project, or -a openclaw (-a codex, -a cursor, …) to choose the agent.

Claude Code (the skills plus your site's connection in one plugin; it asks for your site's Saddle address):

/plugin marketplace add plugpressco/saddle-skills
/plugin install saddle@saddle

Claude (claude.ai and the desktop app): download a skill's folder as a ZIP and upload it in Customize → Skills → + → Upload a skill. Start with saddle-wordpress.

OpenClaw: npx skills add plugpressco/saddle-skills -a openclaw -g.

Then connect your site

Install Saddle on your WordPress site (Plugins → Add New → "Saddle"), open Saddle → Apps, turn on sign-in for apps, and pick your app: it shows the exact step, or a one-click button for Claude, Cursor and VS Code. Or ask your agent — the saddle-connect skill knows the steps for every app.

The skills

Skill	What it does
saddle-wordpress	The entry point: finds the connection, orients once, explains access levels, previews and rehearsal, and routes to the others
saddle-connect	Connects Saddle to Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, OpenClaw or Grok, and fixes failing connections
saddle-site-setup	Interviews the owner once and stores the site's purpose, key pages, voice and rules in the site's own Saddle memory
saddle-safe-changes	The protocol for every write: recent changes, previews, confirmation, verification, and undo
saddle-build-page	Builds or restyles a page in the site's own design system, then proves it
saddle-fix-page	Works a page check report down to clean, in the right order
saddle-content	Posts, pages, custom content types, media, categories and menus
saddle-site-care	Updates, Site Health, plugins, themes, settings, templates, header and footer
saddle-seo	SEO fields in Yoast SEO, Rank Math or AIOSEO, and the SEO findings of the page check

Each site also serves its own playbooks, written for its theme and builder; the skills fetch them with saddle-get-skill instead of copying them, so the two never disagree.

Keeping the skills true

scripts/validate.mjs checks every skill against the Agent Skills format and fails if a skill names a tool Saddle doesn't have. The tool list in scripts/tools.txt is exported from the Saddle plugin:

# from a checkout of plugpressco/saddle, next to this repo
grep -rhoE "'saddle/[a-z0-9-]+'" includes/abilities/*.php | sort -u | tr -d "'" \
  | sed 's#saddle/#saddle-#' > ../saddle-skills/scripts/tools.txt
node ../saddle-skills/scripts/validate.mjs

Support

Questions, problems or ideas: [email protected], or open an issue here.

License

MIT-0. Saddle itself is GPL-2.0-or-later and lives at plugpressco/saddle.