Shilpi MCP server

Connect Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP-capable agent to a WordPress site running the Shilpi theme, and let it build and edit that site through scoped abilities rather than server access.

This repository holds the public interface: the registry manifest, the tool list, the authentication guide and example client configurations. The server itself ships inside the Shilpi theme and runs on your own WordPress install, so there is no service to sign up for and no third party sits between the agent and your site.

• Product and pricing: https://shilpibuilder.com/
• Documentation: https://shilpibuilder.com/docs/
• Permission model, explained: https://shilpibuilder.com/abilities-not-access/

Why this exists

Most WordPress page builders store a layout in their own format. An agent asked to edit such a page has to learn a proprietary widget tree, guess at its invariants and hope the vendor does not change them.

Shilpi stores a page as three plain fields: body HTML, a real stylesheet, and focused JavaScript. An agent editing a Shilpi page is editing markup it already understands. What it needs from the site is not raw access but vocabulary: which global classes exist, which design variables are defined, and what the house rules are. That is what these tools provide.

Endpoints

The server runs on your own site. Replace example.com with your domain.

Purpose	URL
Streamable HTTP, OAuth	https://example.com/wp-json/mcp/shilpi-oauth
Streamable HTTP, application password	https://example.com/wp-json/shilpi/v1/mcp
OAuth protected-resource metadata	https://example.com/wp-json/shilpi/v1/oauth/protected-resource
Site summary for agents	https://example.com/llms.txt

Both endpoints require an active licence. Without one they return 404, and no credential will authenticate. Switching the server off in Shilpi → Dashboard → Connect an AI agent removes both endpoints, which makes it a genuine kill switch rather than a setting.

Requirements

• WordPress 6.4 or newer
• PHP 8.0 or newer
• HTTPS, required for OAuth
• The Shilpi theme, active, with a valid licence

Getting connected

See docs/authentication.md for the OAuth flow and the application-password fallback, and examples/ for ready-to-paste client configuration.

Abilities

Every tool is scoped. There is no filesystem access, no SSH, and no route to wp-config.php or to theme and plugin files. Writing PHP snippets is a temporary permission the site owner grants at Shilpi → Security and revokes in one click.

The list below is generated from a live install running Shilpi 1.9.4. Counts change between releases, and the WooCommerce Kit plugin adds its own tools when it is active.

Pages, posts and templates

Tool	What it does
shilpi-site-info	Site identity, versions, inventory, breakpoints, limits, template routing
shilpi-list-pages	List pages, posts and templates with ids, slugs and permalinks
shilpi-get-page	Read one document: body HTML, page CSS, page JS, header and footer
shilpi-save-page	Create or update a page, post or template, idempotent by slug
shilpi-set-page-code	Set a document's page CSS and JavaScript
shilpi-delete-page	Remove a document
shilpi-import-page	Import one static HTML file as a Shilpi document
shilpi-import-site	Import a folder of static HTML: templates, CSS, images and menu

Design system

Tool	What it does
shilpi-manage-variables	List and upsert design tokens, with per-breakpoint values
shilpi-manage-classes	List and manage global CSS classes and their states
shilpi-get-globals	Read global CSS and JS, and the default header, footer and front page
shilpi-set-globals	Write those global settings

Structure and content

Tool	What it does
shilpi-manage-menu	Create and order navigation menus, assign them to locations
shilpi-manage-taxonomy	Manage categories, tags and custom taxonomies
shilpi-get-seo	Read title, description, canonical, robots and social fields
shilpi-set-seo	Write them through whichever SEO plugin the site runs
shilpi-upload-media	Sideload an image into the media library, idempotent by source URL
shilpi-search-icons	Search the installed icon libraries
shilpi-manage-icon-libraries	Add and remove icon libraries

Code and assets

Tool	What it does
shilpi-list-php-snippets	List Code Hub snippets with their enabled and error state
shilpi-get-php-snippet	Read one snippet and its content hash
shilpi-save-php-snippet	Create or update a snippet, syntax-checked, hash-guarded
shilpi-configure-php-snippet	Enable or disable a snippet, test-run before enabling
shilpi-delete-php-snippet	Remove a snippet
shilpi-list-script-files	List managed JavaScript files
shilpi-upload-script-file	Upload a trusted library or bundle
shilpi-configure-script-file	Set enabled state, load priority and jQuery dependency
shilpi-list-project-files	List project JSON and asset files
shilpi-upload-project-file	Upload generated JSON, returns a same-origin URL
shilpi-delete-project-file	Remove a project or script file
shilpi-set-site-manifest	Activate a web-app manifest
shilpi-list-fonts	List self-hosted font faces
shilpi-upload-font	Upload a WOFF2, WOFF, TTF or OTF face and register it
shilpi-delete-font	Remove a font face

Agent instructions

Tool	What it does
shilpi-get-skill	Load a Markdown skill: shilpi-theme or wordpress-core

Skills are how the site tells the agent its own conventions. You can upload your own Markdown skill to add house rules, and the agent reads it before writing.

What the server cannot do

This is the part worth reading before you connect anything.

• No filesystem access. It cannot read or write theme or plugin files.
• No shell, no SSH, no wp-config.php.
• No customers, orders, addresses or payment data through the WooCommerce tools.
• Writing PHP is off by default and is a permission with an off switch, not a setting you enable and forget.
• Uploading JavaScript requires an account with unfiltered_html.

Licence

The contents of this repository (manifest, docs and examples) are released under the MIT licence. The Shilpi theme itself is commercial software; see https://shilpibuilder.com/pricing/.