php-language-modern

php-language-modern is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fusengine/agents. It costs 49 tokens per session (1,341 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference for modern, framework-independent PHP 8.1–8.5 syntax, including enums, attributes, readonly code, and newer property features.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing non-framework PHP code that must match a specific PHP version.
Why use it?
It helps prevent code from using older PHP patterns or confusing documentation comments with native language syntax.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the fuse-php plugin — 6 skills, 1 agent shipped together

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 skills/fusengine/agents/php-language-modern
Any agent
npx skills add fusengine/agents --skill php-language-modern
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fusengine/agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install fuse-php, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for php-language-modern

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fusengine/agents/php-language-modern.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/fusengine/agents/php-language-modern)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/fusengine/agents/php-language-modern"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fusengine/agents/php-language-modern.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,341 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 $0.00049 $0.01341
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00671
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00268
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00134

Measured today against content hash c4eb00038eb7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

php-language-modern 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 today.

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.

plugins/php-expert/skills/php-language-modern/SKILL.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Its focus is language features that LLMs frequently get wrong or write in a pre-8.0 style — most notably using docblock annotations (@Route, @ORM\Column) instead of native #[Attribute] syntax, which is the #1 mistake this skill exists to prevent.

Do NOT use this skill for coding style, PSR compliance, or autoloading — that is php-standards. Do NOT use it for Laravel-specific syntax conventions — that lives in the Laravel plugin.

Modern PHP Language (8.1 → 8.5)

Agent Workflow (MANDATORY)

Before writing PHP, spawn 3 agents in parallel, one Agent call each with a name:

  1. fuse-ai-pilot:explore-codebase - Detect the project's minimum PHP version (composer.json require.php, CI matrix)
  2. fuse-ai-pilot:research-expert - Verify a feature's version + syntax on php.net before using it
  3. mcp__context7__query-docs - Cross-check idiomatic usage

After writing, run fuse-ai-pilot:sniper for validation.


Overview

Feature Since Use it for
Enums (backed + methods/interfaces) 8.1 Closed sets of values with behavior
First-class callable syntax f(...) 8.1 Passing callables without strings
readonly properties / classes 8.1 / 8.2 Immutable value objects / DTOs
#[\Override] 8.3 Fail-fast on broken inheritance
Property hooks get/set 8.4 Computed/validated properties, no getter/setter boilerplate
Asymmetric visibility public private(set) 8.4 (static: 8.5) Public read, restricted write
Lazy objects newLazyGhost() 8.4 Deferred initialization in DI containers
Pipe operator |> 8.5 Left-to-right data transformation chains
clone() function + $withProperties 8.5 Immutable "with" updates, incl. readonly
#[\NoDiscard] 8.5 Enforce return-value consumption

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. today Changed c4eb00038eb7
  2. yesterday First seen · 108 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 2dd3be5e53ca

Subscribe to this mod's changes

php-language-modern is a skill published in the GitHub repository fusengine/agents (25 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,341 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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