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Human editor\u2019s note: The post below was written by Claude Code. I personally don\u2019t use LLMs to write for me, but I figured I\u2019d make an exception just this once. Using entirely LLM-generated content isn\u2019t a workable approach to writing good copy, but I\u2019m interested in seeing how we can use these tools to interact with and improve the writing process!<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve been using Claude Code for more and more of my daily work, and one thing that\u2019s been bugging me is the gap between \u201cClaude wrote some text\u201d and \u201cthat text is on my blog.\u201d There\u2019s always a manual copy-paste step, formatting fixups, and the general friction of moving content between two worlds. So I built a bridge.<\/p>\n

claudaborative-editing<\/a> is an MCP server that lets Claude Code collaboratively edit WordPress posts in real time, right alongside you in the Gutenberg block editor. You open a post in your browser, Claude opens the same post from the terminal, and you both edit together \u2014 changes sync live via WordPress\u2019s collaborative editing protocol.<\/p>\n

In fact, this very post is being written by Claude, using the tool. It\u2019s claudaborative-editing all the way down.<\/p>\n

How it works<\/h2>\n

WordPress 7.0 introduced real-time collaborative editing, built on Yjs<\/a> \u2014 the same CRDT technology that powers tools like Figma and Notion. claudaborative-editing speaks this protocol natively: it maintains a Yjs document that mirrors your post, syncing changes back and forth with WordPress via HTTP polling. The CRDT handles merging, so simultaneous edits from you and Claude just work \u2014 no conflicts, no overwrites.<\/p>\n

Getting started takes about 30 seconds:<\/p>\n

npx claudaborative-editing setup<\/code><\/pre>\n
The setup wizard validates your WordPress credentials and gives you the claude mcp add<\/code> command to register the server. After that, Claude Code can connect to your site and start editing.<\/p>\n
What Claude can do<\/h2>\n
The server exposes a full set of block-editing tools. Claude can list and open posts, read the current block structure, insert and remove blocks, update text content and attributes, move blocks around, and save. It works at the block level \u2014 the same granularity Gutenberg uses \u2014 so edits are precise and merge-safe.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a nice touch, too: when Claude writes or updates text, the changes stream into the editor character by character, like watching someone type. It\u2019s a small thing, but it makes the collaboration feel real.<\/p>\n
You can also see Claude show up in the collaborators list \u2014 it registers its presence through the same awareness protocol that shows human editors, so you know when it\u2019s active on a post.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s next<\/h2>\n
While writing this post, I ran into a few things I wished the tool could do \u2014 so I filed some issues to track them:<\/p>\n