Yoast SEO abilities, governed through the Bridge

An agent can read Yoast's SEO score, readability score, and inclusive-language score for a site's most recently modified posts.

Abilities
33 read
Active installs
10M+
Rating
96% (27,820 ratings)
Version
28.5
Requires
WP 6.9+, PHP 7.4+
Last updated
2026-09-15

What has to be true first

Yoast SEO must be installed and active on WordPress 6.9 or later. All three abilities check the wpseo_manage_options capability, so only users allowed to manage Yoast SEO settings can call them.

  • Each score ability only registers while its matching Yoast analysis is enabled: SEO analysis for get-seo-scores, readability analysis for get-readability-scores, inclusive language analysis for get-inclusive-language-scores. All three are on by default but can be turned off in Yoast's settings, and inclusive language analysis also requires the site language to have inclusive-language support.

Yoast SEO also has a built-in integration

Beyond what the Bridge discovers here, Agent Abilities for MCP also maintains its own built-in integration for Yoast SEO, which we build and keep up to date ourselves rather than read from Yoast SEO's code. See the built-in Yoast SEO abilities.

A note on the count below

The source also defines get-post-seo-data and update-post-seo-data ability registration methods, but register_abilities() never calls them, so those two abilities do not actually register.

The 3 Yoast SEO abilities

Grouped by what each one can change. Every one starts off until you enable it.

Read 3

  • Read

    Get SEO Scores

    Reads the Yoast SEO score for a batch of the site's most recently modified posts.

    Permission
    wpseo_manage_options
    MCP tool
    aafm-bridge-yoast-seo-get-seo-scores
  • Read

    Get Readability Scores

    Reads the Yoast readability score for a batch of the site's most recently modified posts.

    Permission
    wpseo_manage_options
    MCP tool
    aafm-bridge-yoast-seo-get-readability-scores
  • Read

    Get Inclusive Language Scores

    Reads the Yoast inclusive-language score for a batch of the site's most recently modified posts.

    Permission
    wpseo_manage_options
    MCP tool
    aafm-bridge-yoast-seo-get-inclusive-language-scores

How to switch these on

Four steps from two active plugins to a governed connection.

  1. Install Yoast SEO and Agent Abilities for MCP

    Both plugins need to be active on the same WordPress site. Yoast SEO registers its own abilities; this plugin discovers and governs them.

  2. Open the Other plugins screen

    In Agent Abilities for MCP, open the Bridge tab (labeled "Other plugins" in the admin). Abilities from every registered plugin appear there, grouped by the plugin that registered them.

  3. Enable one ability at a time

    Every ability from Yoast SEO starts off. Turn on only the ones you want an agent to reach, or enable the whole set in one click.

  4. Connect as a least-privilege user

    Approve the connection as a WordPress account scoped to what you actually want the agent to do. Each call still re-checks that account’s capability before it runs.

Read more in how bridging works or the full documentation.

Frequently asked questions

Does Yoast SEO work with the Bridge?

Yes. Yoast SEO registers three read-only score abilities with the WordPress Abilities API as long as their underlying analysis features are enabled, which they are by default.

What has to be true for Yoast SEO's abilities to register?

Each score ability only registers while its matching Yoast analysis is enabled: SEO analysis for get-seo-scores, readability analysis for get-readability-scores, inclusive language analysis for get-inclusive-language-scores. All three are on by default but can be turned off in Yoast's settings, and inclusive language analysis also requires the site language to have inclusive-language support..

Does Yoast SEO need anything special to work with the Bridge?

Yoast SEO must be installed and active on WordPress 6.9 or later. All three abilities check the wpseo_manage_options capability, so only users allowed to manage Yoast SEO settings can call them.

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Verified from Yoast SEO's own free wordpress.org code on 28 September 2026, not from its marketing claims. Not every ability listed here has been run end to end against a live site. Plugin authors change their code, so a name, a capability, or a condition can be different in a later release. This site is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Yoast or Yoast SEO. Back to the full directory.

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Bridge Yoast SEO, keep the same control.

Every ability starts off, is scoped to the user you connect, and is written to the same audit log as core. Turn on only what you need.

Off by default. Capability checked on every call.