Divi 5 Skill — free and open source

Teach any AI to speak Divi 5.

A set of plain Markdown files that document how valid, re-themeable Divi 5 markup is actually written. Point an AI at them and it stops guessing.

MIT licensedNo licence keyNo accountAlready inside Divi Connect

Divi 5 is a format, and most AI has never read it.

Writing Divi blind

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    Invents attribute names, so the page saves and then renders blank.
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    Nests a module somewhere Divi will not accept it.
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    Hardcodes hex values instead of pointing at your own colours.
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    Falls back to Divi 4 shortcodes, because that is what most of the web still says.

Writing Divi with the Skill

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    Writes the real Divi 5 block format, module by module.
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    Knows which container legally holds which, and validates before handing over.
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    Uses your own colours, sizes and fonts by name, so pages stay re-themeable.
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    Asks a few questions and plans the page before it writes any markup.

Contents

What is actually in it.

Fifteen reference files, attached as a job needs them rather than all at once. Two of them go in every time; the rest are picked for the page being built.

Always on

The core rules

The block format itself, which container may hold which, the validation pass, and the specific mistakes that publish an empty page.

DIVI5-BASE.md

Always on

A design process

Makes the AI ask a few focused questions, then plan the page — intent, narrative, blueprint, a pass of self-critique — before writing a line.

DIVI5-DESIGN-PROCESS.md

Structure

Layout

Sections, rows, columns and groups, the Divi 5.9 grid editor, and global layouts you can reuse across a site.

DIVI5-LAYOUT.md

Look

Styling

Backgrounds and gradients, spacing, borders, typography, text fill and stroke effects, aspect ratio — and how to point at a colour the site already has rather than paste a hex value.

DIVI5-STYLING.md

Modules

Every module, in six files

Content, interactive, media, data, dynamic (blog, portfolio, menus, the loop builder) and WooCommerce — with the settings each module really takes.

DIVI5-MODULES-*.md

Reuse

Presets and patterns

How global presets are stored and addressed, plus real layout patterns to build from instead of starting at an empty page.

DIVI5-PRESETS.md

Honesty

A coverage map

Which entries were render-tested on a real Divi install, which were read out of the theme source and not confirmed yet, and which do not work at all. It is the most useful file in the set.

DIVI5-COVERAGE.md

The Skill teaches. The connector reaches.

Two different jobs, and either one works on its own. The Skill gives an AI the syntax; Divi Connect gives it your actual website.

Free, open

Divi 5 Skill

Teaches an AI the format. What comes back is Divi 5 markup that you import or paste yourself. No plugin, no site access, no key, nothing to buy.

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Plugin

Divi Connect

Gives the AI live access to one site: it reads your real design system, builds into the page, and publishes. It carries the Skill inside it.

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Together

Both at once

Divi Connect loads its own copy of the Skill, matched to your plugin version, so installing this one as well is genuinely optional — useful when you also do Divi work outside the plugin.

Free to use

No key, no account, no cost.

MIT licensed

Read it, fork it, ship it inside your own tooling. Keeping the licence notice is the only condition.

Works with any AI that reads files

It is Markdown, not code. Attach the files a job needs to whichever assistant you already use.

Kept level with Divi

Version 0.6.9 tracks the Divi 5.11.1 builder. When Divi adds an authoring surface the Skill documents it — and says whether it has been render-tested yet.

v0.6.9Divi 5.11.115 reference filesMIT

Free, and it stays free.

The Divi 5 Skill is open source and always will be — take it, fork it, use it with any AI you like. Divi Connect is what puts it to work on a live site, from $39 a year.

You do not need a licence, an account or an email address to use the Skill. The repository is the product.

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