Novamira: The AI Agent That Gives Claude Full Control of WordPress
How a small Italian studio shipped a plugin that changed the way AI agents work inside WordPress — in under three months.
Where It All Began
In early 2026, as AI coding assistants began moving from clever autocomplete to genuine agentic workflows, a question emerged in development circles: why couldn’t an AI agent actually control a WordPress site the same way a developer would? The answer, it turned out, was a small plugin away.
Novamira was born out of that exact frustration. Built by the team at Dynamic.ooo — a web studio based in Milan, Italy (trading as Ovation S.r.l.) — the plugin set out to bridge the gap between modern AI assistants and the full power of a WordPress installation. The first release candidate landed on 26 February 2026, followed by a stable v1.0.0 on 10 March 2026.
The timing was deliberate. The MCP (Model Context Protocol) specification — the open standard that lets AI clients talk to external tools — had reached mainstream adoption, and assistants like Claude, Cursor, and Windsurf were all hungry for exactly the kind of deep, server-side integration Novamira offered.
The Team Behind Novamira
Dynamic.ooo is a Milan-based digital studio with a track record of building practical, developer-first tools for the WordPress ecosystem. The Novamira project sits squarely in their wheelhouse: it is opinionated, technically deep, and unapologetically aimed at professionals who want real capabilities rather than glossy feature lists.
Their philosophy is visible throughout the plugin’s design. Rather than wrapping WordPress in a watered-down abstraction layer, Novamira hands the AI agent the actual keys: PHP execution, file system access, WP-CLI commands, and direct database queries — the same toolkit a human developer reaches for. The documentation is blunt about the trade-off: this is for dev and staging environments only.
From Zero to v1.4.0 in Under Three Months
The release cadence has been brisk. In just over eleven weeks the plugin has shipped seven point releases plus a full Pro edition, adding capabilities at each step:
Quick Facts
Author
Dynamic.ooo / Ovation S.r.l.
Milan, Italy
Stable Launch
10 March 2026
Current Version
v1.4.0 (27 May 2026)
Protocol
MCP (Model Context Protocol)
Compatible AI clients
Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and any MCP-compatible agent
Licence
AGPL-3.0
Version Timeline
v1.0.0 — 10 Mar 2026
Stable launch: 8 core abilities (execute-php, read/write/edit/delete file, disable/enable file, list-directory) plus PHP sandbox.
v1.1.0 — 20 Apr 2026
Improved error handling, MCP Adapter updated to v0.5.0.
v1.1.2 — 23 Apr 2026
OpenAI Codex CLI client support added.
v1.2.0 — 13 May 2026
File upload capability, self-signed certificate detection, configuration improvements.
v1.2.1 — 20 May 2026
WP-CLI command execution with background job support.
v1.3.0 — 21 May 2026
Skills feature: Markdown playbooks the AI follows automatically.
What Novamira Unlocks Inside WordPress
Once Novamira is installed and the MCP connection is configured in your AI client, the agent gains a set of abilities that go far beyond anything a typical WordPress plugin exposes:
PHP Execution
The agent can run arbitrary PHP code inside the full WordPress context — $wpdb, all hooks, loaded plugins. It can query the database, update options, modify posts, or run any WordPress function as if it were the developer at the keyboard.
File System Access
Read, write, edit, delete, list, upload, disable, and re-enable files anywhere under ABSPATH. PHP files are sandboxed to a safe directory; all other file types are unrestricted. The agent can modify themes, templates, config files, and media.
WP-CLI Integration
Any WP-CLI command the agent would run in a terminal is available directly through the MCP connection — synchronously for quick commands, or dispatched as a background job for long-running operations like search-replace, imports, or cache flushes.
Gutenberg Block Editor
Novamira includes a dedicated Block Editor Queue system. The agent can compose and update posts, pages, templates, and template parts using native Gutenberg blocks — with complex layouts, styled groups, and cover blocks — and push them live through an in-browser finalizer.
Skills System
Introduced in v1.3.0, Skills are Markdown playbooks stored inside WordPress that the AI loads automatically when a task matches. They let site owners encode project-specific conventions — design patterns, plugin preferences, content rules — so the agent applies them without being reminded each session.
Pro Builder Integrations
The Pro edition (€49/year) extends the agent’s expertise to Elementor, Bricks Builder, ACF, JetEngine, Meta Box, Pods, ACPT, and ASE Pro — giving it the same depth of understanding for these tools that it already has for native WordPress.
“MCP server that gives AI agents full access to WordPress through PHP execution and filesystem operations.”
— Novamira plugin header, novamira.php
How It Works: The MCP Connection
The setup is straightforward. Once Novamira is installed on a WordPress development or staging site, it registers a local MCP server URL. You paste that URL into your AI client’s MCP configuration — one line in a JSON config file for Claude Desktop, for instance — and from that moment on the assistant can see and act on everything in your WordPress install.
The agent doesn’t just retrieve information — it takes actions. Ask it to install a plugin and it runs wp plugin install. Ask it to migrate content and it writes and executes the PHP directly. Ask it to build a Gutenberg layout and it composes the block markup, queues it through the Block Editor, and commits it to the database. The feedback loop is tight enough to feel like pair programming with a developer who already knows your site inside out.
Looking Ahead
At eleven weeks old and already on its seventh release, Novamira is moving fast. The Pro edition has expanded its builder integrations from two (Elementor, Bricks) to eight in its first three weeks, and the Skills system opens the door to a whole ecosystem of community-contributed playbooks for every popular plugin combination.
For WordPress developers who are already using AI coding assistants in their daily workflow, Novamira closes the last gap: it makes the CMS itself a first-class participant in the conversation rather than an external system the agent has to reach around. That’s a small shift in architecture and a large one in practice.
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