XenForo 2.3 Field Guide for AI Coding Agents 2026-08-27

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XenForo 2.3 Field Guide for AI Coding Agents - AI skill for Xenforo (companion to xf-dev:install-ai-agents)

Been AI coding with Xenforo the last couple of weeks, first upgrading forums from 2.2 to 2.3 and then from 2.1 to 2.3, and after that, add-on developments and style upgrades. I asked Claude to document all the problems he encountered, and here is the polished result.

Recommended: SSH, FTP and DB access for the AI. You can ask the AI to build these tools if you want, or use existing github projects.

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XenForo 2.3.10 shipped official AI agent skills (php...

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Tested in Claude, Codex and VS Code with Copilot. Works very well in Claude (both modes) and Codex, and decent in VS Code with Copilot.