Connect an AI agent to your site with MCP

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that lets external AI agents, such as Claude or ChatGPT, connect to your WordPress site. This guide shows you how to enable MCP access on a Jetpack-connected site, set what agents can read and change, connect an agent, and review what your agents have done.

About external AI agent access (MCP)MD

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that lets external AI agents, such as Claude, Cursor, and VS Code, connect to your WordPress site. Once connected, an AI agent can read your site’s content, create and edit posts and pages, manage media, and more, based on the permissions you grant.

MCP access requires a Jetpack Complete or Jetpack AI plan.

When you connect an AI agent, it connects to the WordPress.com MCP server. The settings on this page are the same settings shown in your WordPress.com account preferences. Changing a permission here changes it there, and the reverse. You do not need to configure both.

The MCP and Connectors settings are where you enable MCP access, control read and write permissions, connect an AI agent, and view an activity log of actions taken by your AI agents.

Enable MCP accessMD

Access to MCP is disabled by default. To activate access in your Jetpack AI settings, take the following steps:

1. Log in to your site’s WP Admin.
2. Go to Jetpack → Jetpack AI. If the page shows a tab bar, select the “MCP and Connectors” tab.
3. Under External AI agent access, toggle Enable MCP access to on.

Manage read and write permissionsMD

Read permissions control what information AI agents can retrieve from your site. Write permissions control what changes AI agents can make to your site.

To configure permissions:

1. Go to Jetpack → Jetpack AI. If the page shows a tab bar, select the “MCP and Connectors” tab.
2. Click Read to choose what agents can retrieve:
   • Content Authoring: posts, pages, media, comments, and categories.
   • Site Editing: templates, template parts, navigation menus, and global styles.
   • Site Editor Context: theme styles, presets, and available blocks.
   • Site: site settings, theme, and visibility.
   • Plugin Management: installed plugins and available updates.
   • Other: anything outside the groups above.
3. Click Write to choose what agents can change.
   • Content Authoring: create and edit posts, pages, media, comments, and categories.
   • Site Editing: edit templates, template parts, navigation menus, and global styles.
   • Plugin Management: search, install, update, activate, and remove plugins.

Each category can be enabled or disabled independently. You can also use the toggle at the top of the list to enable or disable all read or write permissions at once.

Connect an external AI agentMD

After enabling MCP access, you can connect an AI agent to your site:

1. Go to Jetpack → Jetpack AI. If the page shows a tab bar, select the “MCP and Connectors” tab.
2. Click Connect external AI agent.
3. Select the AI agent you would like to connect. The available options are:
   • Claude.
   • Claude Code.
   • Cursor.
   • VS Code.
   • Continue.
   • Other.
4. Follow the setup instructions displayed for your selected agent. Each agent has its own connection steps.

For agents that support it, copy the connection details from the manual configuration box and paste them into your agent’s settings file. These details point the agent at the WordPress.com MCP server, which your Jetpack-connected site uses. There is no separate Jetpack server to set up.

Jetpack features available to AI agentsMD

When you enable MCP access, a connected AI agent can work across your whole site, not only its Jetpack features. Depending on the tools you enable, that includes posts, pages, media, comments and categories; templates, navigation menus and global styles; site settings; and plugins. Your site gets the same set of tools as a site hosted on WordPress.com. The MCP tools reference lists everything available.

This table lists the Jetpack features accessible via MCP tools:

Jetpack feature	What your agent can do
Backup	Check whether backups can run, when the last and first backups were made, whether the most recent attempt succeeded, and how much backup storage is in use against your quota
Scan	See scan state, the live threat list with autofix eligibility, ignored threats, and recently fixed threats. Can also queue a fresh scan
Monitor	Check downtime alert status. Can also turn alerts on or off, which affects all administrators
Account Protection	Check account protection status. Can also turn it on or off, which affects all administrators
Newsletter	See subscriber counts, recent sends with delivery counts, reasons the site cannot currently send, and current newsletter settings. Can also update those settings
Site stats	See totals for published posts, pages, and subscribers, plus views, visitors, and publishing counts for a date range