Install Laravel Best Practices as a Boost Skill for Idiomatic Code
Claude can write Laravel code that works without really knowing your conventions — but with the new laravel-best-practices Boost skill, it generates code that's idiomatic too.
Run a composer update and install the skill:
composer update
php artisan boost:install
Then select laravel-best-practices from the list. The skill loads 100+ curated best practices into your AI agent's context, covering Eloquent, caching, queues, authentication, and more.
Once installed, Claude won't just produce code that passes tests — it'll reach for the right patterns by default. That means using query scopes instead of raw where chains, structuring queued jobs correctly, handling cache invalidation properly, and following Laravel authentication conventions without you having to specify them.
It's the difference between getting a working answer and getting a Laravel answer. Particularly useful when onboarding into a team that cares about consistency, or when you want Claude to be a good Laravel citizen rather than just a generic PHP generator.
The skill ships from Taylor Otwell directly, so the practices reflect how Laravel itself is intended to be used.
Stop telling Claude how to write Laravel — give it the playbook and let it apply it automatically.
via @taylorotwell
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Set up Claude Code as an automated reviewer in your CI pipeline — on every pull request, it reads the diff, checks for bugs, security issues, missing tests, and convention violations, then posts its findings as a PR comment. Your human reviewers get a head start because the obvious issues are already flagged before they look.
Before deploying, tell Claude to read your project — migrations, environment variables, queue workers, scheduled tasks, caching, third-party integrations — and generate a deployment checklist that's specific to your app. Not a generic "did you run migrations?" list, but one that knows YOUR infrastructure and catches the things YOUR deploy can break.
Instead of writing a README from memory or copying a template, tell Claude to read your project and generate one that's actually accurate — real setup instructions from your config, real architecture from your directory structure, real API examples from your routes, and real prerequisites from your dependency files.