claude-php-developers

A set of writing rules for a tutorial series about connecting Claude's API to PHP applications. It targets experienced PHP developers using PHP 8.2 or newer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or maintaining the series' documentation and PHP code examples.
Why use it?
It keeps the series consistent and aligned with the specified Claude models, API identifiers, paths, and audience.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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 rules/dalehurley/codewithphp/claude-php-developers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dalehurley/codewithphp

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 6,263 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 $0.00000 $0.06263
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.03132
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.01253
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00626

Measured yesterday against content hash 62106c1f2e46, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-php-developers 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.

.cursor/rules/claude-php-developers.mdc · 844 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 844 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude for PHP Developers Series - Cursor Instructions

Series Overview

This rule file provides comprehensive guidelines for authoring and maintaining the Claude for PHP Developers tutorial series. All content must align with the latest Claude API documentation and best practices.

Series Path: docs/series/claude-php-developers/ Code Samples Path: code/claude-php-developers/ (if applicable) Target Audience: Expert PHP developers (PHP 8.2+) integrating Claude AI into production applications

Latest Claude Models and Versions

Current Model Lineup (2025)

Feature Claude Sonnet 4.5 Claude Haiku 4.5 Claude Opus 4.1
Description Our smartest model for complex agents and coding Our fastest model with near-frontier intelligence Exceptional model for specialized reasoning tasks
Claude API ID claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 claude-opus-4-1-20250805
Claude API alias1 claude-sonnet-4-5 claude-haiku-4-5 claude-opus-4-1
AWS Bedrock ID anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929-v1:0 anthropic.claude-haiku-4-5-20251001-v1:0 anthropic.claude-opus-4-1-20250805-v1:0
GCP Vertex AI ID claude-sonnet-4-5@20250929 claude-haiku-4-5@20251001 claude-opus-4-1@20250805
Pricing2 $3 / input MTok$15 / output MTok $1 / input MTok$5 / output MTok $15 / input MTok$75 / output MTok
Extended thinking Yes Yes Yes
Priority Tier Yes Yes Yes
Comparative latency Fast Fastest Moderate
Context window 200K tokens / 1M tokens (beta)3 200K tokens 200K tokens
Max output 64K tokens 64K tokens 32K tokens
Reliable knowledge cutoff Jan 20254 Feb 2025 Jan 20254
Training data cutoff Jul 2025 Jul 2025 Mar 2025

Read the full file on GitHub · 844 lines

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 · 844 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 62106c1f2e46

Subscribe to this mod's changes

claude-php-developers is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository dalehurley/codewithphp (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 6,263 tokens. 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.