---
title: "AI agents over MCP · Leiho docs"
description: "Let Claude, Codex or Cursor work on your content."
url: https://leiho.dev/docs/agents
lang: en
updated: 2026-11-04
---
Guides

# AI agents over MCP

Let Claude, Codex or Cursor work on your content.

Leiho exposes its abilities to AI agents through the official **MCP Adapter** plugin, by WordPress.org. Claude, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini and any client that runs local MCP servers can then work on your site with the rights of the user they connect as.

## What agents can do

- **Content**: read the brand context and the content model, search entries, read an entry, update the fields of a draft, create a draft, suggest alternative text for an image. Content abilities never publish: they read, and they write drafts only.
- **Administration** (when the agent connects as an administrator): run the diagnostics, change settings with the same validation as the Settings screen, set a secret (write-only) and test the connection to your front end. No ability publishes or deploys.

## Connect an agent

1. Install and activate the **MCP Adapter** plugin (Plugins → Add New, search for “MCP Adapter”).
2. In your profile, under **Application Passwords**, create one named after the client and copy it. The site must use HTTPS. Prefer a dedicated user with the Editor role or lower.
3. In **Leiho → AI**, pick your client: Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code with Copilot, Gemini CLI, Windsurf or another one. The configuration is filled in with your site’s address and username; replace the password placeholder.

```bash
codex mcp add mysite \
  --env WP_API_URL=https://cms.example.com/wp-json/mcp/mcp-adapter-default-server \
  --env WP_API_USERNAME=editor \
  --env WP_API_PASSWORD='xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx' \
  -- npx -y @automattic/mcp-wordpress-remote@latest
```

Node.js must be installed on your computer: the client starts a small bridge with npx.

## Try it

Start a new conversation and check the connection with “List the WordPress abilities you can use on my site.” Then, for example: “Read the brand context of my site, then write a draft service page about indoor air audits.”

Revoke the application password from your profile at any time.

Updated November 4, 2026[Something unclear on this page? Tell us →](https://github.com/pixelersagency/leiho/issues/new?title=Docs%3A%20AI%20agents%20over%20MCP)