Bolette Kern discusses Umbraco's thoughtful approach to integrating AI into its flexible content platform. Emphasizing user choice and modularity, Umbraco.AI allows organizations to define their AI strategies without being locked into rigid models. The focus is on stability, governance, and community-driven innovation, ensuring AI adapts to evolving needs.
Umbraco has introduced the Umbraco-CMS-Backoffice-Skills repository, enabling AI agents to learn about Umbraco backoffice development. Installation is simple, and the skills enhance AI capabilities in property editor development and context APIs. This significantly improves AI-generated solutions, ensuring they align with the latest backoffice architecture for better user experiences.
Umbraco integrates AI to enhance editorial tasks while maintaining human oversight. It offers tools for content assistance and supports multiple AI providers for varied tasks. This approach ensures compliance with governance standards, allowing gradual AI adoption without disrupting existing workflows. Phases, an Umbraco Contributing Gold Partner, emphasizes understanding current usage before implementing AI solutions.
Matt Brailsford introduces Umbraco AI, a provider-agnostic AI integration layer for Umbraco CMS, allowing seamless connections to multiple AI services through a unified API. It features a flexible architecture with customizable profiles, contexts, and capabilities, promoting community-driven extensions and open-source collaboration. Future enhancements include automation and improved RAG support.
2026-02-19 from 18:00 to 20:00 (Europe/London) - CTI Digital, South Central, 11 Peter Street, Manchester, M2 5QR, Manchester, GB
Matt Brailsford discusses how AI coding assistants have transformed his workflow, particularly through the use of git worktrees for parallel development. He addresses the "Port Discovery Problem" when multiple demo sites need to run simultaneously, proposing a solution using named pipes for local communication, enhancing reliability and simplifying tooling.
In this episode of #umbraCoffee, Marcin and Callum discuss their winter experiences, the growth of the Umbraco community, and developments in web frameworks like Tailwind and Astro. They highlight upcoming events, community engagement, security concerns, and the importance of AI integration and ISO certification for Umbraco.
An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for Umbraco CMS that unlocks AI-powered content management via the Umbraco Management API.
In this week's Devril deep dive, Sebastiaan and Lotte explore two new packages from Blend Interactive for configuring sitemap.xml and robots.txt files in Umbraco. Sebastiaan demonstrates using Claude Code with the Umbraco MCP Server to streamline the setup process, highlighting the importance of community sharing in navigating these tools.
2026-02-05 from 18:30 to 20:30 (Europe/London) - MSQ DX - Leeds Office, 28 Sovereign Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, GB