The Laravel Boost beta has officially started 🎉 Accelerate your AI-assisted development now at github.com/laravel/boost 🚀

Aug 13, 2025 · 2:10 PM UTC

Replying to @ashleyhindle
Congrats, Ashley! Can't wait to play around with this.
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Appreciate it! There's a 'report feedback' tool you can use right in your editor too if it annoys or surprises you 🫶
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Replying to @ashleyhindle
@ashleyhindle On a brand new project w/Boost, Claude's first instinct was to execute "artisan make:controller" from within Tinker rather than CLI. Worth adding guidance about that?
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Huh I've not seen that one before! I'm sure we can tweak the wording to specify it should run in the terminal, I'll add an issue 👌
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This is awesome to see, great work! 🙏 The cursor agent that was just released works better with MCP now, so you might see an improvement there after upgrading too 👌 I always test my MCP connection with "what models does application-info say I have?" when I set Boost up in a project 💪
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Replying to @ashleyhindle
Awesome! Quick Q - Any plans to add Laravel Telescope support? @marcelpociot seems to have this sort of debug loop assistance wrapped up from a Herd point of view
Laravel Boost in combination with Herd Pro is simply amazing 🤯 The Herd MCP provides a debug prompt which automatically captures all dumps, queries, logs, outgoing http requests and more to help your AI agent. Truely next level debugging
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@marcelpociot is always two steps ahead of me 😁 Telescope and similar are on the list, but I'm not sure when it will be just yet 🙏
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Replying to @ashleyhindle
Is there a recommended way to use in a monorepo? I had to move the .vscode/mcp.json to the root of the project, not sure if I need to pay attention to other things.
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How do you mean? Does your repo have multiple projects within it? There aren't recommended ways for many things at the minute, but happy to give a steer 👌
Replying to @ashleyhindle
Will you post somewhere about your testing/benchmarks? Was listening to the podcast and would find it really interesting
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Oh absolutely - I was too optimistic with it and was hoping it would be ready today 😆 But some time within the next month? I hope to be finished 🤞
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Replying to @ashleyhindle
Nice nice! Thanks for the good work, Ashley. Curiosity, you mentioned @filamentphp on stage when announcing Boost, but it's conspicuously absent. In the works?
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It shouldn't be conspicuously absent, @pushpak1300 and I worked hard on ingesting Filament docs & creating Filament AI guidelines from scratch, with the help of @danjharrin Is it not working for you?
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Replying to @ashleyhindle
This is exciting. Never tried an MCP what Agent/models do people recommend paying for as a solo developer?
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I’d recommend starting with Cursor, because it feels familiar, and claude-sonnet-4 💪
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Replying to @ashleyhindle
Amazing work, @ashleyhindle ! Congrats on the release
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Replying to @ashleyhindle
Loving this package, thanks Ashley & team! 🚀 Keyword-matched tests are super handy, but it’d be awesome if it then re-ran the full test class once the change passed.
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This was in the original guidelines, but internally for larger projects where test suites take a long time it got in the way more than it helped. You could add a `.ai/guidelines/full-suite.php` file, add "You must always run the full test suit after finalizing changes", then boost:install to have it added to your guidelines 👌
Replying to @ashleyhindle
Question: what if my app runs in container?
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That can work by running something like `docker exec` to `php artisan boost:mcp` or running it on your host if you have PHP on the host Just a couple more steps at the minute !
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Replying to @ashleyhindle
are there plans to support gemini cli?
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You can add Boost to gemini cli now if you update your .gemini/settings.json file 🙌
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