laravel-best-practices
Apply this skill whenever writing, reviewing, or refactoring Laravel PHP code. This includes creating or modifying controllers, models, migrations, form requests, policies, jobs, scheduled commands, service classes, and Eloquent queries. Triggers for N+1 and query performance issues, caching strategies, authorization and security patterns, validation, error handling, queue and job configuration, route definitions, and architectural decisions. Also use for Laravel code reviews and refactoring existing Laravel code to follow best practices. Covers any task involving Laravel backend PHP code patterns.
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Install
Works with every agent the skills CLI supports.
npx skills add https://github.com/laravel/boost --skill laravel-best-practices- 01
Install
Run the command in your project. The CLI asks which agents to install for.
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Describe the task
Ask your agent for something this skill covers. It loads laravel-best-practices automatically when relevant.
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Review the result
The agent follows the SKILL.md steps, scripts and references bundled with the skill.
SKILL.md
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Laravel best practices
Best practices for Laravel, organized as an index of rule files. Each rule file teaches what to do and why. For exact API syntax, verify with search-docs.
Consistency first
Before applying any rule, check what the application already does. Laravel offers several valid approaches. The best choice is the one the codebase already uses, even if another pattern would be better in theory. Inconsistency is worse than a suboptimal pattern.
Check sibling files and related controllers, models, or tests for established patterns. If one exists, follow it. Don't introduce a second way. These rules are defaults for when no pattern exists yet, not overrides.
How to apply
- Check the changed files, nearby code, project configuration, and relevant tests for established patterns. Deviate only for a correctness or security defect, and call the deviation out.
- Map every affected concern to the rule index below. Read each mapped rule file before editing. Skip unrelated rule files.
- Make the smallest coherent change. Keep the application's architecture and naming instead of introducing a second pattern for the same job.
- Verify version-sensitive Laravel APIs for the installed version with
search-docs, or inspect the installed framework whensearch-docsis unavailable. - Run the narrowest relevant tests first, then the project's formatting and static-analysis checks when the change warrants them.
- Re-read the diff against every mapped rule before finishing.
Rule index
Cross-cutting changes often need more than one rule file.
| Concern | Read |
|---|---|
| Query count, eager loading, indexes, large datasets | rules/db-performance.md |
| Subqueries, aggregates, complex ordering and query plans | rules/advanced-queries.md |
| Models, relationships, scopes, casts | rules/eloquent.md |
| Authentication, authorization, input safety, secrets, uploads | rules/security.md |
| Form Requests and validation rules | rules/validation.md |
| Controllers, route binding, resources, middleware | rules/routing.md |
| Schema changes, columns, foreign keys, indexes | rules/migrations.md |
| Jobs, retries, uniqueness, batches, Horizon | rules/queue-jobs.md |
| Cache lifetime, invalidation, locks, memoization | rules/caching.md |
| Outbound requests, retries, timeouts, fakes | rules/http-client.md |
| Exceptions, reporting, rendering, log context | rules/error-handling.md |
| Events and notifications | rules/events-notifications.md |
| Mailables and mail assertions | rules/mail.md |
| Scheduled tasks and overlap protection | rules/scheduling.md |
| Collections, lazy iteration, bulk operations | rules/collections.md |
| Blade components, attributes, composers | rules/blade-views.md |
| Environment values and application configuration | rules/config.md |
| Tests: coverage, factories, fakes, and assertions | the testing-best-practices skill |
| Naming, helpers, file boundaries, PHP style | rules/style.md |
| Actions, services, dependencies, application structure | rules/architecture.md |
Decision rules
- Prefer framework features and existing application abstractions over new helpers or dependencies.
- Avoid speculative abstractions. Extract code when it creates a clear domain boundary, removes meaningful duplication, or makes behavior independently testable.
- Keep database access out of Blade views and prevent hidden N+1 queries across controllers, resources, jobs, and serialization.
FAQ
What does the laravel-best-practices skill do?
Apply this skill whenever writing, reviewing, or refactoring Laravel PHP code. This includes creating or modifying controllers, models, migrations, form requests, policies, jobs, scheduled commands, service classes, and Eloquent queries. Triggers for N+1 and query performance issues, caching strategies, authorization and security patterns, validation, error handling, queue and job configuration, route definitions, and architectural decisions. Also use for Laravel code reviews and refactoring existing Laravel code to follow best practices. Covers any task involving Laravel backend PHP code patterns.
How do I install laravel-best-practices?
Run npx skills add https://github.com/laravel/boost --skill laravel-best-practices in your project. The skills CLI detects the agents you use and copies the skill into the right folder. For Claude Code you can also place the skill folder at ~/.claude/skills/laravel-best-practices/ (personal) or .claude/skills/laravel-best-practices/ (project).
Which AI agents can use laravel-best-practices?
Any agent that supports the open Agent Skills format (a folder with a SKILL.md file), including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Cline, OpenCode and more.
Is laravel-best-practices safe to install?
No partner security audit is available yet. Skills can run commands and scripts, so read the SKILL.md and any bundled files before installing.
Who maintains laravel-best-practices?
It is published by laravel in laravel/boost. It has 2,162 recorded installs.
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