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Laravel Docs

Laravel documentation for versions 6.x through the latest, plus Forge, Vapor, Nova and Envoyer and 42,000+ lines of community package docs, searched by section so an answer costs hundreds of tokens rather than tens of thousands.

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LABSCO SUMMARY

Section-level retrieval is the whole argument for using it over a generic docs fetcher.

Laravel's documentation files are big enough that pulling one into context can crowd out the code you were asking about; returning ranked sections with anchors keeps an answer to a few hundred tokens. Two operational notes worth knowing before you deploy it: a mounted docs volume silently takes over from image updates, and the code transform mode exposes an execute endpoint that runs sandboxed Python — the README says to avoid it over HTTP entirely.

What it is

A documentation server for the Laravel ecosystem. It aggregates core Laravel docs across versions, auto-discovered service documentation for Forge, Vapor, Nova and Envoyer, and community package documentation from projects such as Spatie, Livewire, Inertia and Filament, then answers plain-language questions with ranked *sections* — each with a snippet, an anchor and a source label — instead of whole files. It updates itself daily and works offline once the documentation is on disk.

What you get

  • Ranked section search across every corpus at once — core versions, service docs, fetched package docs and learning resources — with a sources filter to narrow it, exposed as the pinned tool search_laravel_docs
  • Section-level reads: a whole documentation file can exceed 30,000 tokens while a section is typically a few hundred, so the answer leaves room for your code
  • Multi-version coverage from 6.x to the latest, selectable at launch with --version, and 15 semantic categories to browse by topic
  • Learning paths offered interactively — ask without naming one and the server asks which of the ten curated paths you want — with beginner, intermediate and advanced filtering
  • An "I need X" finder that maps a description of your problem onto documentation and onto 22 curated packages, including cross-package compatibility notes
  • Documentation refreshes run as MCP tasks you submit and poll rather than a call held open for minutes — update_external_laravel_docs
  • A compact tool surface by default: search_tools does BM25 relevance search over the tool catalog and call_tool proxies the rest, so the full catalog never lands in your context

Requirements

No account and no key. The distributed form is the container image ghcr.io/brianirish/laravel-mcp-companion:latest, added with claude mcp add or a docker run --rm -i command block; it is also listed in the official MCP Registry as io.github.brianirish/laravel-mcp-companion. --version pins a Laravel version, --docs-path moves the documentation directory, and --transform-mode none restores the old flat tool listing for clients that dislike the search-first surface. Mounting a volume over /app/docs makes the volume the source of truth: pulling a newer image stops updating what the server reads, and --update-docs becomes the way you refresh. HTTP mode ships authentication off — anyone who can reach the port can call every tool — so either keep it on loopback or turn on bearer-token validation with --auth-jwks-uri, --auth-issuer and --auth-audience.

Setup effort

One command — docker run --rm -i ghcr.io/brianirish/laravel-mcp-companion:latest

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