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Governed ability

Get taxonomies

aafm/get-taxonomiesRead only

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

List public taxonomies registered on the site.

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 taxonomies 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 taxonomies 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 taxonomies is one of the 6 governed Site settings abilities. Browse the other Site settings abilities in the catalog.

See it in action

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

agent-abilities · auditGoverned
YouGet taxonomies on this site.
RunRunning aafm/get-taxonomies
GateAllowedread capability confirmed
Auditaafm/get-taxonomies · principal: editor · args: keys
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. List the public taxonomies registered on this site.
  2. What taxonomies are available for organizing content?
  3. Show me every public taxonomy so I know where terms can go.

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 taxonomies.

Does this expose private taxonomies?

No. Get taxonomies lists the public taxonomies registered on the site. It is a read-only discovery call.

Why would an agent use it?

An agent uses Get taxonomies to learn which taxonomies exist before reading or assigning terms. The ability is off by default and every call is logged.

Related abilities

More in Site settings.

Get post types

Read only

List public post types registered on the site. Each type includes a writable flag indicating whether agents may create/update items of that type.

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Get site info

Read only

Retrieve the site name, tagline, URL, and language.

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Get activity log

Read only

Reads this plugin's own audit log: each row's ability name, status (started, success, error, denied), acting user id and login, the argument keys passed, a short detail note of the identifiers each call touched, and the timestamp. Most recent first. Response includes total (the count for the status filter). Never free-text argument content or network addresses. Requires the manage-options capability.

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Get site settings

Read only

Read a small allowlist of site settings: name, tagline, timezone, date and time formats, week start, and posts per page. Requires the manage-options capability. Never the site URL or admin email.

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Update site settings

Guarded write

Write a small allowlist of site settings, passed as a settings object whose keys are the setting names and values the new values. Accepted keys: blogname (site name), blogdescription (tagline), timezone_string, date_format, time_format, start_of_week (0-6), posts_per_page (1-100). String values are sanitized; the two integer settings are clamped into their legal ranges. Any unrecognized key rejects the entire call with nothing written. It can never change the site URL, admin email, default role, or open registration. Requires manage-options. Off by default.

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Back to all abilities

Governed by default, from the first call.

Get taxonomies 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.