Agent Builder → Agent Tools gives you visibility into every tool available to your AI assistants and lets you enable or disable individual tools using toggle switches.
What Are Tools?
Tools are the actions an assistant can take beyond generating text. When an assistant calls a tool, it causes something to happen on your WordPress site — reading a post, creating a file, querying the database, or generating code. The AI provider receives the result and continues the conversation with real data.
Tool Categories
Tools are grouped into categories. The page shows all available tools across all installed and active assistants:
- Plugins — generate plugin scaffolds, custom post types, taxonomies, settings pages, shortcodes, REST endpoints, admin menus, and more
- Themes — inspect the active theme, list installed themes, and retrieve site editor guidance
- Agents — analyze requirements, generate and validate assistant code, create assistant files, and manage the assistant library
- Database — read WordPress options, posts, users, terms, post meta, and comments (read-only by default; write operations require Permissions to be enabled)
- WordPress — general WordPress utilities including file operations, code search, and managing scheduled tasks
Enabling and Disabling Tools
Each tool has a toggle switch. Disabled tools are hidden from the AI provider entirely — the assistant will not know they exist and cannot call them. Use this to restrict what assistants can do on your site.
For example, if you want an assistant to be able to read posts but never create or delete them, disable the db_create_post and db_delete_post tools here. Changes take effect immediately for all subsequent conversations.
Core Tools vs Agent-Specific Tools
Some tools are part of the Agent Builder core and are available to all assistants. Others are defined by a specific assistant and only appear when that assistant is active. Both types are shown together on this page, labelled by their owning assistant.
Write operations (creating posts, updating options, modifying files) are also gated by the Permissions system. Enabling a write tool here is a necessary but not sufficient condition — the corresponding permission scope must also be enabled in Settings → Permissions.