Governed ability
Get media
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Get media is a governed ability in Agent Abilities for MCP, a free WordPress plugin that runs an MCP server on your site.
List media library items (URL, alt, mime, dimensions). Response includes total (the full match count).
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, Get media 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 Get media 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.
Get media is one of the 7 governed Media abilities. Browse the other Media abilities in the catalog.
See it in action
An illustrative run. Your real calls and data stay on your own site.
Try it with a prompt
Example requests you could paste to your agent.
List the images in the media library with their alt text and dimensions.
Show me the media items and their URLs so I can pick a header image.
Give me the library files along with their mime types.
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 Get media.
What does each item include?
Get media returns the URL, alt text, mime type, and dimensions for each item, plus a total match count for the query. Since 1.4.3 the listing is scoped to the caller: the connected user sees their own uploads only, unless that user holds the edit_others_posts capability, which returns the whole library. The ability is a read-only listing and changes nothing.
Is media access on by default?
No. Get media, like every ability, is off until an administrator enables it, and each listing call is recorded in the plugin audit log.
Governed by default, from the first call.
Get media is off until you enable it, scoped to the user you connect, and logged like everything else. Turn on only what you need.
Every ability off until you enable it, capability-gated on every call.