boost
Laravel Boost gives AI coding assistants the context and structure they need to write good Laravel code. At its core is an MCP server with more than 15 tools, plus composable AI guidelines written for Laravel and its ecosystem and a Documentation API that combines an MCP tool with a knowledge base of over 17,000 Laravel-specific items, with semantic search. The README marks it as beta with frequent updates.
The tools let an assistant read application info (PHP and Laravel versions, database engine, installed packages and Eloquent models), browser logs and the last application error, inspect database connections and schema and execute database queries, list routes, Artisan commands, config keys and environment variable keys, read a config value by dot notation, read log entries, convert relative URLs to absolute ones, search the Laravel docs for the installed package versions, and run code in the application's context with Tinker. Guidelines cover Laravel 10 to 12, Livewire, Flux UI, Herd, Inertia (React and Vue), Pest, PHPUnit, Pint and Tailwind CSS. Install with `composer require laravel/boost -w --dev` and `php artisan boost:install`, then use it from Cursor, Claude Code or another agent. The generated config and guideline files can be added to .gitignore. GitHub shows no licence.
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- Last commit
- 2026-10-17
- Commits, last 90 days
- 100+
- Releases, last 90 days
- 17
- Latest release
- v2.10.3 (2026-10-07)
- Open issues
- 21
- Recent issues with at least one comment
- 6/12
Oldest week on the left; the latest four weeks are orange. Source: GitHub commit activity.
Status rule: archived on GitHub = Archived; last commit within 90 days = Active; 91 to 365 days = Slowing; older = Stale. All figures come from the GitHub API on the date shown.
Most discussed open issues
- #426 Extend guidelines instead of replacing them5 comments · 2026-01-16
- #1034 record-rule silently mutates two files beyond the one it records into1 comments · 2026-09-19
- #948 Guide agents not to pass `-n` to Boost install/update commands1 comments · 2026-08-18
- #701 Feature: Update installed Skills using `boost:update` or similar1 comments · 2026-03-19
- #522 Feature proposal: Suport third party mcp server configuration definition like for skills and guidelines1 comments · 2026-02-04
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