Two halves work together: the MCP tools let an agent inspect the running application, from schema and models to the last error and the browser's own logs, while the docs tool answers Laravel questions from a knowledge base scoped to the package versions actually installed. Guidelines load upfront, so the conventions are in context before the first line is written.
A dev-dependency package that installs an MCP server plus AI guidelines and agent skills into a Laravel application. php artisan boost:install writes the MCP configuration and the guideline files for the agents you select.
- Application Info — PHP and Laravel versions, the database engine, ecosystem packages with versions, and your Eloquent models
- Database Connections, Database Schema and Database Query — inspect the connections, read the schema, run a query
- Last Error and Read Log Entries, taken from the application's own log files
- Browser Logs — logs and errors from the browser
- Get Absolute URL, so relative paths become URLs that actually resolve
- Search Docs — a hosted documentation API over more than 17,000 pieces of Laravel-specific information, with semantic search scoped to the packages you have installed
- AI guidelines for the ecosystem: the framework, Livewire, Inertia, Flux UI, Folio, Herd, Pennant, Pest, PHPUnit, Pint, Sail, Tailwind CSS, Volt and Wayfinder
A Laravel application and Composer: composer require laravel/boost --dev, then php artisan boost:install. The server itself runs as php artisan boost:mcp over stdio, and php artisan boost:update refreshes guidelines and skills as your packages move.
One command — composer require laravel/boost --dev