The Drupal AI Initiative is reshaping how Drupal handles AI. From the CCC context and guardrail module to AI Agents, Drupal Canvas, and 35+ AI providers, everything is changing.
In this walkthrough on the Axelerant channel, I give an inside, no-hype look at onboarding into the initiative, the modules driving it, and where it is headed next.
Most "AI builds your website" demos generate throwaway markup that has nothing to do with your design system. Drupal Canvas AI does something more useful: it maps what you ask for onto the components you already have, and only creates something new when nothing in your library fits.
This walkthrough builds a page using nothing but plain English prompts, and shows what is happening underneath.
Every organization running AI now has a governance framework it must answer to — and almost none of them are machine-readable. I'm proposing a jurisdiction-selectable AI governance policy layer for Drupal, and I'd like the design torn apart before I write the code. Ask a Drupal team how their AI…
Sometimes progress doesn’t come from long roadmaps or perfectly planned sprints.
Sometimes… it comes from a quiet weekend.
This weekend, I found myself going deeper into something I’ve been thinking about for a while:
Can AI make decisions that feel… human?
Not just correct.
Not just efficient.
But empathetically right.
That thought turned into something tangible — a Drupal module I’ve been building:
ai_empathy