Generate Custom Laravel Middleware with Claude

Custom middleware in Laravel is a great place to handle cross-cutting concerns — rate limiting, API versioning, request logging, geo-blocking — but getting the registration, termination handling, and edge cases right is tedious to look up each time. Claude can generate the whole thing.

Describe what you need and where it fits in the pipeline:

Write Laravel middleware that:
- Checks for a valid X-Api-Version header on all routes under /api/v2/
- Returns a 400 JSON response if the header is missing or not one of: 1, 2, 3
- Logs the requested version and route to a dedicated "api_access" log channel
- Runs as terminable middleware so logging happens after the response is sent
Register it in bootstrap/app.php scoped to the api middleware group.

Claude will generate the middleware class with the correct handle() and terminate() signatures, register it properly, and write a Pest feature test that verifies both the happy path and the validation error:

public function terminate(Request $request, Response $response): void
{
    Log::channel('api_access')->info('API request', [
        'version' => $request->header('X-Api-Version'),
        'route'   => $request->path(),
        'status'  => $response->getStatusCode(),
    ]);
}

Middleware is where good intentions go to die in untested code — having Claude write the class and the test at the same time means it actually gets covered.