Drupal AI Context Beta 5 Extends Context Beyond AI Agents

Beta 5 of Drupal AI Context, also known as Context Control Center, extends context delivery beyond AI agents through a new consumer architecture. Drupal.org lists 1.0.0-beta5 as released on 6 September 2026 for Drupal 10.5 and later and Drupal 11.2 and later. Kristen Pol, project lead for AI Context and program manager for the Drupal AI Initiative, detailed the update in a 9 September post from Salsa Digital, which expects beta 5 to be the final beta before the project's first release candidate.

The principal architectural change is the introduction of context consumers. Previous releases made context items available to AI agents, while beta 5 also ships an AI automators consumer and allows other Drupal AI projects to provide consumer types of their own. AI CKEditor 1.5.0-beta2 already provides a context consumer plugin. Administrators can configure automatic context delivery, scope subscriptions, always-included and excluded items, token and item limits, and selection behaviour for individual consumers, while entire consumer types can be enabled or disabled.

Beta 5 also reorganises context selection into Minimal, Relevant and Broad modes that progressively expand the pool of eligible context. Relevant is the default, while Broad can add remaining published items that pass hard filters until configured limits are reached. A new Roles scope acts as one of those filters, preventing context scoped to particular Drupal roles from being supplied when the acting user does not hold one of those roles; it does not control permission to view or edit the context item itself. The release also refines entity-type and language scopes, adds sample context items and use-case documentation, respects entity view access during selection, and stores consumer references as UUIDs for configuration portability.

Existing beta installations need to run Drupal database updates because beta 5 changes context-item references and scope storage, migrates existing agent settings into the consumer configuration, and introduces a site-wide selection mode. Sites using recipes or configuration synchronisation must also include the module's own configuration so its workflow and moderation settings are installed. Salsa Digital says more than 60 issues across development, testing, design, documentation, quality assurance, and coordination were completed for the release and recommends testing the beta outside production. For the complete change list, upgrade guidance, and testing priorities, read Drupal AI Context — beta 5 released.