Laravel Boost

The Laravel Boost MCP Server comes with over 15 tools designed for Laravel developers who use AI in their local development workflow.

It provides AI coding assistants with the necessary context and structure about your application to generate high-quality, framework-specific code.

Key Features

• 🛠️ 15+ specialized tools for real-time project inspection, including database schema, routes, config, and logs
• 📚 Semantic documentation search across 17,000+ Laravel knowledge elements with embeddings for precise results
• 🎯 Version-aware guidelines for Laravel, Livewire, Filament, and other ecosystem packages
• 🔧 Tinker integration for executing code within your application context
• 📝 Custom guideline support through simple Blade template files
• 🔍 Environment-aware coding that understands your specific PHP version, database engine, and packages

Use Cases

• Rapid Prototyping: You can ask an AI agent to scaffold a new feature. For instance, “Create a new Product model and migration, register a resource controller for it, and add the corresponding routes.” Boost provides the AI with the context of your existing models and routing files to perform these actions correctly.
• Intelligent Debugging: When you encounter a bug, you can instruct your AI assistant to investigate. A prompt like, “My last action resulted in an error. Read the last error from the log, inspect the users table schema, and check the route definition for /users/{id}” uses multiple tools to diagnose the problem without you manually checking each of those things.
• Code Refactoring and Updates: You need to update a component to align with a new version of Livewire. You can tell the AI, “Refactor this Livewire component to use the new syntax from version 3, based on the installed Livewire v3 guidelines.” The AI will use the specific guidelines provided by Boost to generate updated, accurate code.
• Automated Testing: You can accelerate test creation by having the AI write them for you. For example, “Write a Pest test for the StorePostRequest form request. Ensure it tests the validation rules defined in the class.” The AI can inspect the file and use the Pest guidelines to generate a relevant test case.

How to Use It

1. Install Laravel Boost through Composer as a dev dependency.

composer require laravel/boost --dev

2. Run the boost:install command. This installs the necessary MCP server configurations and the AI guidelines.

php artisan boost:install

3. You can now connect your AI coding tool, such as Cursor or Claude Code, to the server.

4. Available tools:

• Application Info: Reads your project’s PHP and Laravel versions, database engine, installed ecosystem packages with their versions, and a list of all Eloquent models.
• Browser Logs: Accesses and reads logs and errors directly from the browser’s console.
• Database Connections: Inspects the available database connections configured in your application, including the default one.
• Database Query: Executes a raw SQL query directly against your application’s database.
• Database Schema: Reads the structure of your database, including tables, columns, and their types.
• Get Absolute URL: Converts relative URIs within your application to absolute, fully-qualified URLs.
• Get Config: Retrieves a specific value from your application’s configuration files using “dot” notation (e.g., app.name).
• Last Error: Reads the single most recent error message from the Laravel log files.
• List Artisan Commands: Fetches and displays a list of all available Artisan commands for your application.
• List Available Config Keys: Inspects and lists all the available configuration keys.
• List Available Env Vars: Inspects and lists all available environment variable keys from your .env file.
• List Routes: Displays a list of all the defined routes in your application’s routing files.
• Read Log Entries: Reads a specified number (N) of the most recent entries from the application’s log files.
• Report Feedback: Allows you to send feedback about your experience with Laravel Boost directly to the development team.
• Search Docs: Queries the extensive Laravel documentation API to find relevant information based on your installed packages.
• Tinker: Executes arbitrary PHP code within the context of your Laravel application, similar to running the php artisan tinker command.

5. You can extend Laravel Boost with your own AI guidelines. Add .blade.php files to your application’s .ai/guidelines/ directory. The boost:install command will automatically pick them up.

6. To override a default Boost guideline, create a file in your local .ai/guidelines/ directory that mirrors the path of the guideline you want to replace. For instance, to override the Inertia React v2 form guidance, you would create a file at .ai/guidelines/inertia-react/2/forms.blade.php. Your custom file will be used instead of the default one.

7. In some cases, you might need to register the MCP server manually in your editor. Use the following details for the configuration.

Here is a JSON example of what the configuration looks like:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "laravel-boost": {
            "command": "php",
            "args": ["artisan", "boost:mcp"]
        }
    }
}

FAQs

Q: How is this different from a standard AI chatbot?
A: Context. A standard chatbot has general knowledge of Laravel, but it knows nothing about your specific project. Laravel Boost acts as a bridge, giving the AI direct, real-time access to your application’s code, database schema, routes, and configurations. This leads to far more accurate and relevant code generation.

Q: Is Laravel Boost a paid product?
A: Laravel Boost is an official Laravel package and is open-source. You can install it via Composer.

Q: What happens if AI guidelines for my specific package version don’t exist?
A: Laravel Boost will fall back to the core guidelines for that package. These core guidelines provide generalized advice that is broadly applicable. You can also create your own version-specific guidelines in your project’s .ai/guidelines directory for more precise control.