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Wagtail 8.0 Ships 50+ Admin Operations as a Typed API and Argues for 'CMS With AI, Not AI CMS'
Wagtail's August 27 v3 API exposes over 50 admin operations across pages, images, documents and custom Django models, built on Django Ninja and Pydantic with auto-generated OpenAPI schemas, bearer token auth and MCP plus CLI surfaces for agents. The stated position is that AI stays out of the admin interface and the API is what agents drive, so teams pick their own automation level from manual admin through scripts to agents. Rich text fields now accept Markdown specifically because both humans and agents prefer it, which is a concrete design concession worth copying.
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