Laravel MCP Companion

formerly Laravel Docs MCP Server

⚠️ BETA SOFTWARE - This project is in early development. Features may not work as expected and breaking changes may occur without notice.

Laravel MCP Companion is a comprehensive documentation aggregator and navigator for the Laravel ecosystem. Rather than generating content, it centralizes and organizes existing high-quality documentation from across the Laravel ecosystem, making it easily discoverable through your AI assistant.

Why Laravel MCP Companion?

While Context7 excels at general documentation retrieval, Laravel MCP Companion is purpose-built for Laravel developers with faster, offline-capable, Laravel-specific features.

What you get:

• Multi-version Laravel documentation (6.x through latest) with enhanced search

• Auto-discovery Laravel services - Forge, Vapor, Envoyer, Nova

• Community package documentation - Spatie, Livewire, Inertia, Filament

• Curated package recommendations with detailed integration guides

• Unified search across core Laravel docs, services, and packages

• Smart navigation - find exactly what you need for your use case

• Future-proof updates - automatically adapts to Laravel service changes

Related MCP server: MPC Docs Server

Auto-Discovery & Update Frequency

This application features an intelligent auto-discovery system that automatically finds and indexes Laravel documentation. Every day, it:

• ✅ Auto-discovers new documentation sections across Laravel services (Forge, Vapor, Nova, Envoyer)

• ✅ Retrieves the latest Laravel core documentation for all versions since 6.x

• ✅ Fetches community package documentation (Spatie, Livewire, Inertia, Filament)

• ✅ Adapts automatically to structural changes in documentation websites

• ✅ Generates new patch releases automatically when updates are found

Installation

Quick Install via Smithery

Note: Smithery automatically configures your AI client.

Claude Desktop

1. Open Claude Desktop Settings

   • Click Claude menu → Settings → Developer → Edit Config

2. Add to your configuration file:

   { "mcpServers": { "laravel-mcp-companion": { "command": "docker", "args": ["run", "--rm", "-i", "ghcr.io/brianirish/laravel-mcp-companion:latest"] } } }

3. Restart Claude Desktop for changes to take effect

Config file locations:

• Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Claude Code

Use the claude mcp add command:

The --scope project option creates a .mcp.json file in your project root that can be committed to version control.

Configuration Options

These options can be used with the Docker command. For example:

Features and Roadmap

Current Features

• ✅ Multi-version Laravel docs - All versions from 6.x to latest

• ✅ Auto-discovery engine - Finds new docs across Forge, Vapor, Nova, Envoyer

• ✅ Community package docs - Documentation for Spatie, Livewire, Inertia, Filament

• ✅ Smart package recommendations - Curated Laravel ecosystem packages

• ✅ Unified search - One search across all documentation sources

• ✅ Daily updates - Automatic sync with latest documentation

• ✅ Battle-tested - Comprehensive test suite ensures reliability

Upcoming Features

• 📚 v0.8.0: Community learning resources (Laravel News, tutorials, guides)

• 🔍 v0.9.0: Advanced search and smart navigation across all sources

• 🚀 v1.0.0: The complete Laravel documentation navigator

For detailed roadmap information, see ROADMAP.md.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

Acknowledgements

• Laravel for their excellent documentation

• Laravel package authors for their contributions to the ecosystem