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usecroft/laravel

⭐ 87 PHP repository created 2025-04-05

Croft is a Model Context Protocol server for Laravel projects, installed as a development dependency with composer and run through the artisan command line. The README states at the top that the project is no longer maintained and that the work continued as Laravel Boost, so it is now of historical and reference interest rather than something to adopt. Its design goal was a plug and play local server: after publishing the configuration file with vendor:publish and running croft:install, the MCP client is pointed at ./artisan croft, and Cursor users are advised to commit a .cursor/mcp.json file so a whole team gets the same setup. The tools it provides are deliberately local development tools. It can take a screenshot of a URL, run queries against the application database in either read only or read write mode, and read and filter the database structure including tables, columns, indexes and foreign keys. It can turn a relative path into an absolute URL, report the current date and time, and read the last few entries of the application log. It can list and filter the registered routes and list the available artisan commands. It can also list the configuration keys reachable through config() in dot notation, optionally with their values, and list the environment keys available through env() without exposing their secret values. Adding a tool means extending an AbstractTool base class and registering the class in the croft.php config file; a tool declares its name, a description written so the client can decide when to use it, an input schema, and MCP annotations such as read only, destructive and idempotent, then returns a ToolResponse. After adding one the server must be restarted or asked to relist its tools. The audience was Laravel developers who wanted an AI pair programmer with direct access to local application state.

https://github.com/usecroft/laravel

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