25 Jun 2026
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Dries Buytaert: Launching Drupal's Outside AI workstream
Earlier this week, in "Drupal's role in agentic workflows", I argued that Drupal's AI future has two parts: helping people with AI inside Drupal, and helping agents use Drupal from the outside.
So we are splitting Drupal's AI strategy into two workstreams. Inside AI is led by Christoph Breidert, who has been driving that work already. Outside AI, the new workstream, is led by Scott Falconer.
The easiest way to think about the difference: with Inside AI, a person uses Drupal, and Drupal uses AI to help. With Outside AI, a person uses an agent, and the agent uses Drupal.
We launched the Drupal AI Initiative one year ago, in June 2025, with a published strategy. A year later it spans 32 organizations and more than 50 contributors, shipping against a public 2026 roadmap through two paid delivery teams.
So far, most of that work has focused on Inside AI, though much of the foundation also supports Outside AI.
Outside AI will serve three kinds of users:
- Developers new to Drupal. They ask an AI agent to build a website, and the agent chooses what to build on. Agents reach for whatever they can spin up in seconds, so the opportunity is to make Drupal that easy to install, configure, and use.
- Experienced Drupal developers. They already know Drupal is the right tool, and they want agents to take on more of the work. For Drupal agencies, Outside AI should turn AI into a stronger advantage: helping teams move faster, win more work, protect profitability, and get more value from their Drupal talent.
- External agentic systems and workflow automation tools. These systems coordinate work across many tools, but when they touch content, they need a trusted system of record for workflows, permissions, revisions, and publishing. Rather than rebuilding that governance elsewhere, they should call into Drupal.
If we are successful, agents will recommend Drupal to new users, help Drupal developers move faster, help agencies win more work, and use Drupal as the trusted layer for content management and governance.
Thank you to everyone who helped bring the Drupal AI Initiative to this point. Together, the community has turned an ambitious idea into real momentum.
I'm excited about what comes next! Want to get involved? Join the #ai-initiative channel on Drupal Slack.
25 Jun 2026 3:44pm GMT
Drupal AI Initiative: Drupal AI Initiative: introducing Inside AI and Outside AI
By the Drupal AI Initiative
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.
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 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.
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.
Inside AI
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.
Outside 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.
What's next
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.
Get involved
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.
- Read the strategy and the public 2026 roadmap to see where each stream is headed.
- Collaborate with our partners to deliver the latest AI features to your users.
- Become an AI Partner.
- Join the conversation in the #ai-initiative channel on Drupal Slack.
- Check the issue queues for Inside AI and Outside AI work, and pick something up.
Not sure where to start? Come say hello in Slack and we'll help you find a first contribution.
25 Jun 2026 3:26pm GMT
The Drop Times: DrupalCamp Kortrijk Speakers Preview Configuration, Performance, CSS and Editorial UX
For Drupal teams, small technical choices often decide how maintainable a site becomes. DrupalCamp Kortrijk speakers are using that practical layer as the entry point for sessions on configuration, performance, CSS and editorial work.
25 Jun 2026 3:03pm GMT