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  "version": "2",
  "generatedAt": "2026-11-03T20:14:12.538Z",
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    "shortTagline": "The official WordPress command line",
    "description": "WP-CLI is the WordPress project's command-line interface, maintained under wordpress.org with Automattic and hosting sponsors. About fifty top-level commands cover everything an agent needs to run a WordPress site: create and publish posts, import media, moderate comments, manage users, install plugins and themes, set options, and run database operations. It is the interface, not the CMS; the Listing is Operable only.",
    "capabilities": [
      "operable"
    ],
    "vertical": "content-publishing",
    "shape": "product",
    "formFactor": "cli",
    "executionModel": "deterministic",
    "provenance": "human-written",
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        "PHP"
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      "frameworks": [],
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      "database": [],
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        "owner": "wp-cli",
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        "lastCommit": "2026-09-01"
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      "official": true,
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      },
      {
        "job": "Import media and regenerate thumbnails",
        "reachable": true,
        "evidence": "wp media import, regenerate"
      },
      {
        "job": "Moderate comments",
        "reachable": true,
        "evidence": "wp comment create, update, delete, approve, spam"
      },
      {
        "job": "Manage categories and tags",
        "reachable": true,
        "evidence": "wp term"
      },
      {
        "job": "Manage users and roles",
        "reachable": true,
        "evidence": "wp user, wp role, wp cap"
      },
      {
        "job": "Install and update plugins and themes",
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        "evidence": "wp plugin install --activate, wp theme"
      },
      {
        "job": "Read and set site options",
        "reachable": true,
        "evidence": "wp option get, update"
      },
      {
        "job": "Run database operations and search-replace",
        "reachable": true,
        "evidence": "wp db, wp search-replace"
      },
      {
        "job": "Administer multisite networks",
        "reachable": true,
        "evidence": "wp site"
      },
      {
        "job": "Lay out pages visually in the block editor",
        "reachable": false,
        "evidence": "post content is passed as raw HTML or block markup; there is no visual layout command"
      }
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        "name": "Free",
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            "url": "https://make.wordpress.org/cli/handbook/installing/",
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            "kind": "container",
            "url": "https://make.wordpress.org/cli/handbook/installing/#installing-via-docker"
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            "kind": "source",
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      "I want my agent to publish and update WordPress content from a script instead of the dashboard",
      "I maintain several WordPress sites and want plugin updates, users, and content handled from a shell"
    ],
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      "shell access to the WordPress host"
    ],
    "active": true,
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      "Needs shell access on the server running WordPress; many managed hosts expose WP-CLI, some do not",
      "PHP 7.2.24+ and WordPress 4.9+; limited Windows support",
      "Commands run with the server user's rights and bypass WordPress capability checks; scope carefully",
      "WordPress itself is GPL; WP-CLI is MIT",
      "Curator note: WordPress also ships an official mcp-adapter; a WordPress Listing could carry both as official interfaces"
    ],
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      "operable": 3
    },
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      "executionModel": "no model at runtime",
      "operability": "documented at developer.wordpress.org/cli/commands under the WordPress project; README credits Automattic and host sponsors",
      "effort": "not listed as Adaptable; wp-cli.yml exists but adapting the CLI is not the use case",
      "editions": "README: Phar download, Composer, Homebrew, Docker; MIT",
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      "Should the Curator fold this into a single WordPress Listing alongside the official mcp-adapter?"
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        "url": "https://github.com/wp-cli/wp-cli",
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        "url": "https://developer.wordpress.org/cli/commands/",
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      "disputed": []
    },
    "url": "apps/wp-cli--wp-cli.html",
    "coverage": "partial",
    "paid": false,
    "source": "research/verified/wp-cli--wp-cli.json"
  }
}