Governed ability
List menus
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List menus is a governed ability in Agent Abilities for MCP, a free WordPress plugin that runs an MCP server on your site.
Lists the navigation menus by id, name, slug, and item count. Requires the edit-theme-options capability.
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, List menus 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 List menus 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.
List menus is one of the 9 governed Menus abilities. Browse the other Menus 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 all the navigation menus on the site.
Show me each menu with its slug and how many items it has.
Which menus exist so I can find the primary one?
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 List menus.
Does it change any menu?
No, List menus is read only. It lists the navigation menus with their id, name, slug, and item count.
What capability does it need?
List menus requires the edit-theme-options capability. The ability is off by default, and every call is audited.
Does it show the menu items?
No. List menus returns the menus only. Use list menu items to see the items inside a menu.
Governed by default, from the first call.
List menus 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.