Agent Skills

Agent Skills are self-contained playbooks that teach an AI agent how to use EMCP Tools for a specific job: page building, block editing, theme building, plugin integrations, GSAP animation, auditing, and more. You can install them locally in your AI client or let a connected MCP agent discover and load them at runtime.

The bundled skills

As of v3.16.0, the bundle ships 15 skills:

Skill	Covers
`emcp-skills`	Elementor page building (includes industry packs).
`emcp-blocks`	Block development and the block sandbox workflow.
`emcp-gutenberg`	The WordPress block editor.
`emcp-themer`	The builder-agnostic theme builder.
`emcp-themes`	Active-theme discovery and cross-theme workflows.
`emcp-betheme`	BeTheme options and BeBuilder pages.
`emcp-blocksy`	Blocksy theme and Companion extensions.
`emcp-generatepress`	GeneratePress and GenerateBlocks.
`emcp-kadence`	Kadence theme and Kadence Blocks.
`emcp-gsap`	GSAP core, plugins, WordPress handles, Elementor lifecycle, accessibility, and verification.
`emcp-plugins`	ACF, Meta Box, WooCommerce, forms, SEO, and supported plugin dispatchers.
`emcp-performance`	Performance auditing.
`emcp-security`	Security & malware scanning.
`emcp-seo-a11y`	SEO & accessibility.
`emcp-php-snippets`	The human-gated PHP snippet sandbox.

Industry skill packs

emcp-skills (the Elementor page-building skill) bundles 10 vertical knowledge packs: Dental, Med-Spa, Therapy, Fitness, Automotive, Food & Restaurant, Wedding, Real Estate, Legal, and Photography. When the agent detects the site’s industry, it auto-routes to the matching pack, which pulls together the right Brand Kit, sample prompts, and templates for that vertical, so a dental-clinic build and a law-firm build get industry-appropriate content and styling from the same skill, not a generic one-size-fits-all page.

Two ways to use them

1. Install locally in your AI client

Download the bundle from EMCP Tools → Skills in the WordPress admin and follow the per-client install guides on that tab. Two formats are offered: the original folder bundle (one zip containing all skills as subfolders, for clients that read a skills folder directly, e.g. Claude Code, Cursor), and, new in v3.6.5, a Claude Desktop bundle that packages each skill as its own zip inside one outer zip, matching Claude Desktop’s one-zip-at-a-time import model (nested sub-skills are flattened to a hyphenated name it accepts). Once installed, your client loads the skill instructions from disk. This works with any client and doesn’t depend on the MCP connection.

2. Load them at runtime (Pro)

A connected MCP agent can discover and load the skills over the MCP connection, no local install needed. This is powered by two read-only Pro tools:

Tool	Purpose
`list-skills`	Catalog of the available skills, with a `search` filter.
`get-skill`	Load one skill’s full instructions by slug.

A ## Skills catalog is also injected into the MCP discovery context, so the agent sees a compact menu of the skills the moment it connects, then pulls a full playbook with get-skill only when a task matches. This is progressive disclosure: the agent carries a small menu at all times and loads a heavy, detailed playbook only on demand.

Runtime exposure is Pro-only and requires the MCP server to be enabled.

The Agent Skills module

Runtime skill exposure is controlled by the Agent Skills module on the EMCP Tools → Modules tab (Pro, on by default).

Turning the module off:

removes the list-skills and get-skill tools, and
removes the ## Skills injection from the discovery context (reclaiming its token footprint).

It does not affect the local Skills download. You can still grab the bundle from the Skills tab and install it in your client regardless of the module’s state.