wpds
This skill helps agents build and review UIs using the WordPress Design System, including components, tokens, and patterns.
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- Agents
- Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode, claude.ai and API
- License
- No license stated
- Pin
- 48d4aa2pinned Oct 9, 2026
- Context cost
- about 640 tokenswhen the skill loads
- GitHub stars
- 211on automattic/agent-skills
- Scripts
- None found
What it does
“Use when building UIs leveraging the WordPress Design System (WPDS) and its components, tokens, patterns, etc.”
Generated summary from the skill's own text
This skill helps agents build and review UIs using the WordPress Design System, including components, tokens, and patterns. It provides access to canonical WPDS documentation through an MCP server and ensures code adheres to design system best practices. The skill focuses on UI implementation in React and TypeScript for WordPress-related projects.
When to use it
- Building UIs for WordPress, Gutenberg, WooCommerce, or related platforms
- Working with WPDS components, design tokens, or typography scales
- Reviewing UI code against WordPress Design System standards
- Implementing interfaces using @wordpress/components or @wordpress/ui packages
When not to
- Handling non-UI tasks like data fetching or string localization
- When WPDS MCP server is not configured or running
- Building UIs outside WordPress ecosystem or unrelated contexts
Install
No license stated: install from the publisher's repository, and ask the author before you reuse or share it.
These commands install from the publisher's repository and need no account.
skills CLI
npx skills add automattic/agent-skills --skill wpdsInstalls from the repository's default branch, which may have changed since the commit we checked.
GitHub CLI 2.90 or later
gh skill install automattic/agent-skills wpds@48d4aa21d0da0e7bda1c7ac155fef2e16b87aa25Installs the commit we checked (48d4aa2).
Copy by hand
Download the folder at 48d4aa2 and put it in .claude/skills/wpds for Claude Code and in .agents/skills/wpds for Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode.
Claude Code plugin
/plugin install build-with-wordpress@claude-plugins-officialThe publisher's plugin in Claude's official marketplace. It may hold more than this skill, and we have not pinned it.
Copy for your agent
A prompt for any coding agent. It installs this skill from GitHub at the pinned commit, copies the files as they are, and runs nothing unless you ask.
Prompt
Install the agent skill "wpds" by Automattic. Source, pinned to commit 48d4aa21d0da0e7bda1c7ac155fef2e16b87aa25: https://github.com/automattic/agent-skills/tree/48d4aa21d0da0e7bda1c7ac155fef2e16b87aa25/skills/wpds 1. Download that folder at exactly this commit. Do not use the default branch. 2. Copy every file unchanged, keeping the folder structure, into .claude/skills/wpds/ for Claude Code and .agents/skills/wpds/ for Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode. Create the folders if they do not exist. 3. Do not edit the files, and do not run any script in the folder unless I ask you to. 4. When you are done, list the files you copied and where you put them. Its license is restricted or not stated. Show me the license terms from the repository before you copy anything. Listing and checks: https://www.agentnative.dev/skills/automattic/wpds
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Files
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