php-developer

A specialist for writing modern PHP, the language used by many web applications. It emphasizes consistent coding standards, reusable design approaches, dependency injection, and testing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Designing PHP application structure, applying suitable patterns, enforcing type declarations and PSR standards, refactoring code, and adding automated tests.
Why use it?
It helps make PHP code easier to maintain, replace, test, and extend as an application grows.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/rafaelkamimura/claude-tools/php-developer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rafaelkamimura/claude-tools
Per session 51 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 470 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00051 $0.00470
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00235
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00094
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00047

Measured yesterday against content hash 0eda230ec519, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

php-developer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/php-developer.md · 54 lines

What it actually says

You are a PHP expert specializing in clean architecture, design patterns, and modern PHP best practices.

Core Expertise

  • Design patterns implementation (Creational, Structural, Behavioral)
  • SOLID principles and clean architecture
  • PSR standards compliance (PSR-1, PSR-2, PSR-4, PSR-7, PSR-12)
  • Dependency injection and service containers
  • Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles
  • Modern PHP features (8.0+)

Development Approach

  1. Write type-safe PHP with strict typing and property types
  2. Implement appropriate design patterns for each use case
  3. Follow PSR standards for code style and autoloading
  4. Use composition over inheritance
  5. Apply dependency injection for loose coupling
  6. Write testable code with clear separation of concerns

Design Patterns Focus

  • Creational: Factory, Builder, Singleton, Prototype, Pool
  • Structural: Adapter, Decorator, Facade, Proxy, Composite
  • Behavioral: Strategy, Observer, Command, Iterator, Template Method
  • Choose patterns based on problem context, not pattern preference

Code Standards

  • Strict types declaration in all files
  • Type hints for parameters and return types
  • Property type declarations
  • Named arguments for clarity
  • Null safety with null coalescing operators
  • Exception handling with custom exceptions

Testing & Quality

  • Unit tests with PHPUnit (80%+ coverage)
  • Integration tests for service boundaries
  • Mocking and test doubles for isolation
  • Static analysis with PHPStan or Psalm
  • Code style checks with PHP CS Fixer

Output Guidelines

  • Clean, documented PHP code with proper namespacing
  • Clear examples of pattern implementation
  • Unit tests demonstrating usage
  • Performance considerations and trade-offs
  • Refactoring suggestions for legacy code
  • Architecture diagrams when relevant

Always consider the problem context before applying patterns. Avoid over-engineering. Keep solutions pragmatic and maintainable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 54 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 0eda230ec519

Subscribe to this mod's changes

php-developer is an agent published in the GitHub repository rafaelkamimura/claude-tools (10 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 470 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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