Auditra

A WordPress plugin that turns the site it is installed on into a read-only MCP server, so any MCP-capable AI client (Claude custom connectors, and others) can inspect and reason about that site's plugin estate in plain language.

Ask "which of my plugins are vulnerable?", "what's bloating my options table?", or "what did deleted plugins leave behind?" — and get answers grounded in the actual state of the site.

How it works

Three layers inside one plugin, one REST route, no runtime dependencies:

• Transport — POST /wp-json/auditra/v1/mcp/{token} speaking MCP over JSON-RPC 2.0 (plain JSON responses, stateless). Both protocol generations are served, decided per request: revision 2026-07-28 (per-request metadata, server/discover, Mcp-* header validation) and the initialize-handshake revisions 2025-11-25 / 2025-06-18 / 2025-03-26. Token-in-path auth behind a swappable interface, Origin validation, rate limiting, failed-auth logging.

• Collectors — read WordPress directly: inventory, site context, autoloaded options, cron, database tables, content-feature usage, and a three-tier attribution engine that maps options/tables/hooks back to owning plugins with explicit confidence levels (high = curated, medium = derived, or visibly unattributed).

• Enrichment — two external services, wordpress.org and WPVulnerability, both keyless, both cached, both degrading silently with per-source coverage reporting and progressive backoff (15 min → 24 h) on failures. Support lifecycle dates for PHP, MySQL and MariaDB are not fetched at all: they ship in includes/data/lifecycle.json, compiled from each vendor's published policy.

Nine tools; every response carries _meta (totals, truncation, sources unavailable, timestamps) and stays within a 20 KB budget. The server reports facts, never verdicts — scoring and advice are deliberately absent, because that's the AI client's job. The full design record lives in docs/DECISIONS.md.

Related MCP server: AutoWP MCP Server

Connect it to an AI client

1. Tools → Auditra in wp-admin: enable the endpoint, generate a token, copy the connection URL.

2. In Claude: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, paste the URL (must be https://).

3. Ask questions. Start with "what can you tell me about this site's plugins?"

The site must be publicly reachable over HTTPS with pretty permalinks enabled. Clients on revision 2026-07-28 get a 24-hour freshness hint on tools/list, so a tool added by a plugin update appears within a day on its own; older revisions have no expiry signal, so reconnect the connector after updating to pick up new tools.

Contributing

The easiest genuinely useful contribution is a pull request against includes/data/prefix-overrides.json — the curated map from plugin slugs to the option/table prefixes they actually use (Contact Form 7 → wpcf7_). Every entry improves attribution accuracy for every user. See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Development

composer install   # dev-only: PHPCS + WordPress Coding Standards (pinned)
composer lint
php tests/mcp-client.php https://example.com/wp-json/auditra/v1/mcp/{token}

tests/mcp-client.php is the CLI harness that exercises the endpoint without an AI client in the loop; tests/seed-conditions.sh builds a deliberately messy test site (and teardown-conditions.sh reverses it exactly). CI runs a PHP lint matrix (7.4–8.4), PHPCS, and a grep gate that fails the build if any write operation ever appears in the plugin code.

Security

See SECURITY.md for the supported versions and how to report a vulnerability privately.

License

GPL-2.0-or-later.