We’re launching the Umbraco in AI Community Team to explore how Umbraco evolves in a world where AI increasingly supports developers. This team brings together experienced Umbraco practitioners to experiment, learn, and help shape how AI is used responsibly and effectively in building real-world Umbraco solutions.
At the heart of this initiative is a simple but important question:
How do we enable AI and assist developers in using AI when building great Umbraco projects?
Projects that are performant, secure, reliable, scalable, and maintainable, today and over time.
Why this team exists
As AI becomes a bigger part of how developers work, building with Umbraco isn’t only about how people write code anymore. It’s also about how AI tools and agents understand Umbraco, and how we give them the right structure, guidance, and best practices to work with and build with the platform correctly.
This is where tools like MCP, Agent Skills, code assistant, and shared implementation knowledge come together. And it’s exactly where an AI community team makes sense.
This team is about experimenting and learning together: evolving Umbraco MCP, trying out new tools as they emerge, whether in MCP, Claude, or elsewhere, and helping developers get started with, and get better at, AI-assisted development.
From experience to guidance
One of the more concrete ways we’ll do this is through Agent Skills.
Skills give us a way to capture experience and turn it into guidance, not just for experienced developers, but also to help newcomers get off to a strong start, especially when AI is part of how they build their implementation.
Using Agent Skills, we want to explore and define best practices in areas such as:
- Backoffice Extensions
- Implementation
- Content modeling
- Performance and scalability
- Headless architecture and frontend frameworks
- Load balancing
- Search
- Block list and Grids, including custom block views
- and more
The goal isn’t to write “perfect” rules.
The goal is to create useful, reusable guidance that both developers and AI tools can rely on.
Ultimately, this work should help us answer a question we’ve been asked again and again:
What does best practise in Umbraco look like?
We’ll choose the focus areas together, based on the knowledge we all bring. The outcome should be concrete, measurable, and grounded in Agent Skills we build and share openly.
Who we’re looking for
You don’t need to be an AI expert. Curiosity about AI is a plus.
You do need real Umbraco or AI experience, a willingness to share your perspective, and an openness to collaborating to define what we believe is the best practice in key areas of Umbraco.
This team is for technical experts, developers, architects, and implementers who build Umbraco projects in the real world and aren’t afraid to have (and defend) an opinion.
This team is for people who:
- build and maintain Umbraco projects at scale
- work closely with AI-assisted tooling today, or are actively exploring it
- have opinions on what works well, and what doesn’t
- are comfortable sharing those opinions and having them challenged
- care about performance, security, maintainability, and long-term quality
- want to help others build better Umbraco solutions
Just as importantly, we want this team to be a reality check.
We don’t want to disappear into a rabbit hole where new tools, Skills, or ideas look great on paper but don’t actually help developers in agency land. This team should tell us:
- what’s useful
- what’s confusing
- what’s getting in the way
- and what’s simply not worth pursuing
That feedback is just as valuable as the things we build.
Meetings and expectations
This is a working community team, so we expect to meet regularly.
We’ve seen good results in other teams with:
- half-day workshops
- focused co-lab sessions
- or a few hours of hands-on collaboration in the afternoon or evening
- meeting every 2 or 3 weeks for an hour is also an option
We’ll figure out the exact format together.
We’re starting with 2026 because, let’s be honest, AI moves fast, and we don’t yet know what questions we’ll need answered six months from now. What we do know is that we want your input and guidance throughout 2026.
Employee Sponsorship
This is a time-boxed, goal-oriented community initiative, with an aim of delivering best practice Agent Skills for Umbraco. Because of that, we want to be mindful of both your time and your work-life balance.
Ideally, your employer can sponsor your participation by setting aside a few hours per week for your work in the Umbraco in AI Community Team.
If your employer is already a Gold or Platinum Umbraco Partner, they automatically qualify for Contributing Partner status by supporting your participation.
Supporting your involvement benefits both you and your employer:
- Building stronger connections across the Umbraco community
- Early, hands-on insight into how Umbraco works with AI, and help shape what we’re building
- Direct influence on best practices used by thousands of developers worldwide
- An investment not just in Umbraco, but in you and the AI knowledge you bring back
- And yes… well-earned bragging rights 😄
What’s in it for you?
Plenty 😉
- Work closely with peers on topics you already care about
- Influence how AI-assisted development with Umbraco evolves
- Share (and sharpen) your expertise
- Learn a lot about Umbraco, AI, and new tools
- Invitation to the Umbraco Community team visit. A three-day meetup in Odense, Denmark, with travel, accommodation, and catering fully covered by Umbraco HQ
Ready to join?
We’d love to hear from you.
Application closes on March 3rd 2026, and shortly after, we’ll be welcoming 5-8 members to the Umbraco in AI Community Team.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to reach out to Bolette Kern at bke@umbraco.dk.
Written by: Bolette Kern
Published: February 3rd, 2026