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npx skills add laravel/boost --skill 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.
npx skills add laravel/boost --skill 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.
Before applying any rule, check what the application already does. Laravel offers multiple valid approaches, and the best choice is the one the codebase already uses, even if another pattern would be theoretically better. Inconsistency is worse than a suboptimal pattern.
Check sibling files, 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.
search-docs, or inspect the installed framework when it is unavailable.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 |