Develop And Harden Wordpress Plugins With Lifecycle And Security Guardrails

---
name: "Develop and harden WordPress plugins with lifecycle and security guardrails"
slug: "develop-and-harden-wordpress-plugins-with-lifecycle-and-security-guardrails"
description: "Use Automattic's official wp-plugin-development skill when an agent needs to build, refactor, secure, or package a WordPress plugin with correct activation hooks, settings handling, uninstall behavior, and data hygiene. This is a plugin engineering playbook, not a generic WordPress listing."
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/Automattic/agent-skills/tree/trunk/skills/wp-plugin-development"
publisher_type: "organization"
category: "WordPress & CMS"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
---

# Develop and harden WordPress plugins with lifecycle and security guardrails

Use Automattic's official wp-plugin-development skill when an agent needs to build, refactor, secure, or package a WordPress plugin with correct activation hooks, settings handling, uninstall behavior, and data hygiene. This is a plugin engineering playbook, not a generic WordPress listing.

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- git clone https://github.com/WordPress/agent-skills.git
- git clone https://github.com/Automattic/agent-skills.git

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- node shared/scripts/skillpack-build.mjs --clean
- node shared/scripts/skillpack-install.mjs --global
- node shared/scripts/skillpack-install.mjs --global --skills=wp-playground,wp-block-development

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- bash
- # Clone agent-skills
- cd agent-skills

- Source: https://github.com/Automattic/agent-skills/tree/trunk/skills/wp-plugin-development
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Automattic/agent-skills/HEAD/README.md

## Documentation

- https://github.com/Automattic/agent-skills/tree/trunk/skills/wp-plugin-development

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/develop-and-harden-wordpress-plugins-with-lifecycle-and-security-guardrails/)