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Governed ability

Count posts

aafm/count-postsRead only

Count posts is a governed ability in Agent Abilities for MCP, a free WordPress plugin that runs an MCP server on your site.

Count posts of an allowlisted post type: a total of active (non-trashed) items, plus a breakdown by status (publish, draft, pending, private, future, trash). Trash and auto-draft are shown in the breakdown but excluded from total.

How it is governed

The same model as every ability in the plugin, stated for this one.

  • Off until you enable it

    Like every ability, Count posts ships switched off. You turn it on one at a time, and an update never widens access on its own.

  • Reads only

    It reads data and returns it to your client. Nothing on your site is created, changed, or removed.

  • Capability gated

    A connection only sees Count posts if the user you connected can run it, and the plugin checks that capability again before it executes.

  • Every call audited

    The call is written to the log in your own database, denials included, with the argument keys and the identifiers it touched, never free-text content.

Count posts is one of the 26 governed Content abilities. Browse the other Content abilities in the catalog.

See it in action

An illustrative run. Your real calls and data stay on your own site.

agent-abilities · auditGoverned
YouCount posts on this site.
RunRunning aafm/count-posts
GateAllowedread capability confirmed
Auditaafm/count-posts · principal: editor · args: post_id
ResultReturns the data the agent asked for. Nothing on the site changes.

Try it with a prompt

Example requests you could paste to your agent.

  1. How many published posts do we have?
  2. Give me a status breakdown of all posts.
  3. Count the draft and pending posts for the news type.

These are illustrative example prompts. The agent runs them as the user you connected, checked against that user's capabilities and written to your audit log.

Frequently asked

Short answers for Count posts.

What counts toward the total?

Count posts counts active, non-trashed items toward its total. Trash and auto-draft appear in the breakdown but are excluded from the total.

Which post types can it count?

Count posts covers allowlisted post types only. The ability is read only and every call is logged.

Related abilities

More in Content.

Get post

Read only

Retrieve a single post by ID. Returns id, title, status, type, slug, link, author {id, display_name}, dates, full content (rendered HTML by default, or raw markup via content_format; omitted for password-protected posts), excerpt, terms grouped by taxonomy, featured_image {id, url, alt} or null, and meta (allowlisted scalar values only).

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Create draft

Guarded write

Create a new draft post. The agent drafts; a human publishes. Optional: slug, featured_media (attachment id), terms ({taxonomy: [termId]}, replaces existing terms per taxonomy), and meta ({key: value}, allowlisted keys only).

View ability

Create post

Guarded write

Create and publish a post (requires publish capability). Optional: slug, featured_media (attachment id), terms ({taxonomy: [termId]}, replaces existing terms per taxonomy), and meta ({key: value}, allowlisted keys only).

View ability

Update post

Guarded write

Update an existing post by ID (publishing is a separate gate). Optional: slug, featured_media (attachment id), terms ({taxonomy: [termId]}, replaces existing terms per taxonomy), and meta ({key: value}, allowlisted keys only).

View ability

Replace in post

Guarded write

Literal find-and-replace inside a post's content. Sanitizes the result and edits only the body; status is never touched. Reversible via revisions.

View ability

Trash post

Guarded write

Move a post to trash (recoverable, never permanently deleted).

View ability

Back to all abilities

Governed by default, from the first call.

Count posts is off until you enable it, scoped to the user you connect, and logged like everything else. Turn on only what you need.

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Every ability off until you enable it, capability-gated on every call.