Some things directly connected to it:The hope is that everything we build, should be possible to use directly from the browser!
- 105 issues fixed on AI Core, 75 issues fixed on AI Agents and roughly 25 issues on providers.
- 90 unique contributors on AI Core
- 244 files changed, 6500 lines added, 15044 lines removed on AI Core.
The by far largest feature is the new Agentic framework where anyone can build agents without writing a single line of code. They are stored as configurations, meaning that you can build once, export and ship anywhere. And you can trigger them from anywhere you want – Chatbot, CLI, widgets, via an API etc.
- Custom Operation Types
- Drush command to run AI
- Make the chatbot tell it what its doing, while its doing it
- Make it possible to add autocomplete fields to AI Automator Chains on CKEditor
- AI Content Suggestion can be based on the rendered HTML of the entity
- Normalized Structured Response
- Any many more
A huge joint stable release of AI was made yesterday, where 10 modules were updated to 1.1.0. This is a major milestone in the Drupal AI brings a host of improvements and significant new features.
- Drupal CMS AI agents have been updated and are now 90% effective up from 80%.
- A new test framework has been created so can see their effectiveness more clearly and non developers can create new tests.
- Improvements to AI search making use of function calling means they will more accurately search when you ask it to.
- Over 1000 people in the #ai slack
- An officially funded AI position and a Strategic initiative with multiple companies to make this sustainable
- 4600 installs of AI up from 3000 at Atlanta
For anyone interested in the new agent framework I did a presentation on it at Drupal Days Leuven and also have a longer developers preview. More videos and documentation to follow.
Full details of Drupal AI 1.1.0
🚀 Major New Feature: Agentic Framework
The most important update is function calling and a new agent framework, but here is a list of some other new features:
With the announcement of the new AI Initiative the future looks bright for Drupal and AI, the announcement is here if you haven’t seen it.
We’ve implemented the tooling in a MCP-standardized way, which opens the door for seamless integration with external tools—and makes it easier to share and reuse agents and tools across systems and languages.
🔧 Standards-Based Tooling
🙌 Thank You
🧠Visual Tools for Everyone
Because Drupal is such a flexible and stable CMF, it will be the perfect agent runner. It adheres automatically to your contents permissions, files etc. while also keeping humans in the loop.
Outside of this we have also added a visual AI Agents Testing Tool where you can setup complex scenarios and retest them over and over, without having to be a developer. An advanced agent tracing tool is also in the pipeline!
Some technical facts of the AI release:
It will be really exciting what kind of agents people will build, we have already tried everything from agents that checks configuration diffs for you, to agents that builds components from images. Hopefully your imagination, and not the framework, will be the limit 😉
We have a MR that can be tested for using this within Drupal CMS as well.
I thought I would thank a list of people that have contributed to this, but I checked the unique contributors via git and got 90 people. So I will not try to list everyone, because I will surely forget someone – but special thanks to James Abrahams and FreelyGive Ltd for giving me the opportunity to work with this full time (and more 🙂 )!
And in the 1.1.0 release we also have the possibility to setup the agents via the modeler api and BMPN.io in a graphical way thanks to Jürgen Haas! He also has a visual way of building tools on the way.
