Inside AI is AI inside Drupal, for the people using it: assistants, in-product workflows, page-building, and the rest of the user-facing surface. This is the work the initiative has been driving for the past year, and it continues against the 2026 roadmap already in flight.The core difference: Inside AI brings AI tools into the Drupal interface to assist the people using it. Outside AI makes Drupal the platform external AI agents reach for and act on. Dries Buytaert recently published an article on Launching Drupal’s Outside AI workstream.
By the Drupal AI Initiative
As the work has grown, it’s become clear that our AI strategy needs to cover two distinct areas. While innovation and product development remain core goals across everything we do, we are organizing our day-to-day execution into two workstreams: Inside AI, led by Christoph Breidert, and Outside AI, a new stream led by Scott Falconer.
The initiative is open, and both streams need contributors – whether you write code, test against real agent workflows, work on documentation, or bring a use case from your own agency or organization.
Inside AI
Outside AI is AI outside Drupal, acting on Drupal. A person, agency, host, or developer is using an external agent or builder tool, and that agent needs to start with Drupal, connect to Drupal, inspect Drupal, change Drupal, verify Drupal, migrate into Drupal, or launch Drupal.
Outside AI
Not sure where to start? Come say hello in Slack and we’ll help you find a first contribution.
What’s next
The unified AI initiative leadership team – made up of the existing initiative members – will continue to shape our overarching roadmap, while Christoph and Scott ensure that vision is executed. We will outline this leadership team and other key supporting roles in an upcoming post.
Get involved
You’ll see public roadmaps from both streams. Inside AI continues against its existing 2026 roadmap; Outside AI will publish its own outcomes and milestones, with a first proof of direction targeted for DrupalCon Rotterdam. Where both streams need the same capability, the answer is usually one shared Drupal contribution, not two parallel builds.
A year ago, we launched the Drupal AI Initiative with a published strategy and a bet that AI would matter enormously to Drupal’s future. Today the initiative spans 32 organizations and more than 50 contributors, shipping against a public 2026 roadmap.
