Hand your WordPress site to Claude. Production never at risk
Pete Panel gives Claude a safe, disposable copy of your site to work on.
Clone your site, hand Claude the development, and ship only on your say-so, in hours, not weekends.
Senior developers never point an agent at production.
So Pete Panel gives Claude a disposable sandbox with all the access (real WP-CLI, files, database, and logs) and none of the risk. Build custom plugins, refine themes, create new landing pages, run security audits: a week of work delegated in an afternoon, shipped only on your say-so. It’s how we rebuilt this very site off Divi. Free to start on your Mac.
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Clone
Copy your site into a disposable Docker playground in minutes. Production is never in the loop.
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Delegate
Claude builds custom plugins, refines your theme and website copy, creates your new landing page, and runs security audits, with real WP-CLI, files, and database.
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Approve
You sign off on design direction, rights, and anything that can’t be undone.
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Ship
First deploy exports in Pete format; after that, push updates one page at a time with /push_page over SSH, backed up and verified.
Why other local WordPress tools feel limited: they exist to sell you hosting
Every popular local WordPress tool is owned by a hosting company, and it shows: sealed-off environments, no real shell, and an export button that points at their servers. A senior developer doesn’t accept that ceiling, and an agent can’t do real work under it. Pete Panel answers to the developer: the same WP-CLI, files, and database you’d touch yourself, in a disposable Docker copy you can throw away. That’s what we call an agentic WordPress environment. See how the tools compare.
Disposable sandboxes
Clone any WordPress site into an isolated playground in minutes. The agent works on a copy; production never feels a thing.
Full developer access
Real WP-CLI, files, and database. Not a dashboard API. Everything a senior developer touches, the agent can too.
Field-tested workflows
Gated, repeatable recipes from real migrations. Every rule learned the hard way, then encoded so it never bites twice.
Humans hold the keys
Rights gates and deploy gates keep you in charge of every irreversible step. The AI does the work; you approve the moves.
Four commands that do a developer’s day of work
Pete Panel ships these battle-tested workflows built in. Each runs the full, gated engineering process a senior developer would insist on: step by step, verified, reversible. Use them as they are, run any prompt against your dev site, or encode workflows of your own. The same recipes rebuilt this very site.
/retheme
Legacy theme → modern block theme. Genesis or Divi rebuilt as a Full-Site-Editing theme, every menu page verified, packaged as an installable .zip, with the old theme kept as one-command rollback.
/reblock
Any page → self-contained block theme. WordPress, Shopify, or headless, rebuilt with bundled assets and license-correct fonts. Rights-gated: your faithful rebuild, or an original design study.
/push_page
One page, dev → production. Content, template, and media shipped over SSH. Backed up before it overwrites, idempotent by slug, nothing else touched.
/plugin_audit
Any plugin → security report. Traces untrusted input to real, exploitable findings, ranked by severity. Read-only: it reviews code, never runs it.
We rebuilt this site with Claude. You’re looking at it.
Years on a page builder, then a single agent-run migration inside a disposable playground: native block theme, every page verified, legacy theme kept as one-command rollback. The migration you’re considering is the one we already ran on ourselves. Read the full story →
Ready to give your agent a real environment?
Spin up a free dev playground, hand Claude the keys, and watch a migration happen in an afternoon.