Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to josephmcgarvey/runcloud-mcp-server. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/josephmcgarvey/runcloud-mcp-server/main/.agents/skills/laravel-best-practices/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/josephmcgarvey/runcloud-mcp-serverWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/josephmcgarvey/runcloud-mcp-server/laravel-best-practices)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/josephmcgarvey/runcloud-mcp-server/laravel-best-practices"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/josephmcgarvey/runcloud-mcp-server/laravel-best-practices/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/josephmcgarvey/runcloud-mcp-server/laravel-best-practices"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/josephmcgarvey/runcloud-mcp-server/laravel-best-practices.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00114 | $0.00966 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00057 | $0.00483 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00023 | $0.00193 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00097 |
Grade A, and why
laravel-best-practices 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 11d ago.
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.
This is a copy
97% identical to laravel-best-practices — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Laravel Best Practices
Best practices for Laravel, organized as an index of rule files. Each rule file teaches what to do and why. For exact API syntax, verify with search-docs.
Consistency First
Before applying any rule, check what the application already does. Laravel offers multiple valid approaches, and the best choice is the one the codebase already uses, even if another pattern would be theoretically better. Inconsistency is worse than a suboptimal pattern.
Check sibling files, related controllers, models, or tests for established patterns. If one exists, follow it. Don't introduce a second way. These rules are defaults for when no pattern exists yet, not overrides.
How to Apply
- Check the changed files, nearby code, project configuration, and relevant tests for established patterns. Deviate only for a correctness or security defect, and call the deviation out.
- Map every affected concern to the rule index below. Read each mapped rule file before editing. Skip unrelated rule files.
- Make the smallest coherent change. Keep the application's architecture and naming instead of introducing a second pattern for the same job.
- Verify version-sensitive Laravel APIs for the installed version with
search-docs, or inspect the installed framework when it is unavailable. - Run the narrowest relevant tests first, then the project's formatting and static-analysis checks when the change warrants them.
- Re-read the diff against every mapped rule before finishing.
Rule Index
Cross-cutting changes often need more than one rule file.
| Concern | Read |
|---|---|
| Query count, eager loading, indexes, large datasets | rules/db-performance.md |
| Subqueries, aggregates, complex ordering and query plans | rules/advanced-queries.md |
| Models, relationships, scopes, casts | rules/eloquent.md |
| Authentication, authorization, input safety, secrets, uploads | rules/security.md |
| Form Requests and validation rules | rules/validation.md |
| Controllers, route binding, resources, middleware | rules/routing.md |
| Schema changes, columns, foreign keys, indexes | rules/migrations.md |
| Jobs, retries, uniqueness, batches, Horizon | rules/queue-jobs.md |
| Cache lifetime, invalidation, locks, memoization | rules/caching.md |
| Outbound requests, retries, timeouts, fakes | rules/http-client.md |
| Exceptions, reporting, rendering, log context | rules/error-handling.md |
| Events and notifications | rules/events-notifications.md |
| Mailables and mail assertions | rules/mail.md |
| Scheduled tasks and overlap protection | rules/scheduling.md |
| Collections, lazy iteration, bulk operations | rules/collections.md |
| Blade components, attributes, composers | rules/blade-views.md |
| Environment values and application configuration | rules/config.md |
| Pest/PHPUnit patterns, factories, fakes | rules/testing.md |
| Naming, helpers, file boundaries, PHP style | rules/style.md |
| Actions, services, dependencies, application structure | rules/architecture.md |
What ships with it
20 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.
- rules/advanced-queries.md 3.8 KB
- rules/architecture.md 5.0 KB
- rules/blade-views.md 1.2 KB
- rules/caching.md 2.4 KB
- rules/collections.md 1.3 KB
- rules/config.md 1.5 KB
- rules/db-performance.md 4.1 KB
- rules/eloquent.md 3.9 KB
- rules/error-handling.md 2.2 KB
- rules/events-notifications.md 1.6 KB
- rules/http-client.md 3.6 KB
- rules/mail.md 1.2 KB
- rules/migrations.md 3.2 KB
- rules/queue-jobs.md 3.2 KB
- rules/routing.md 2.1 KB
- rules/scheduling.md 1.3 KB
- rules/security.md 3.6 KB
- rules/style.md 4.3 KB
- rules/testing.md 1.5 KB
- rules/validation.md 1.7 KB
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 60 lines · 114 tokens per session scan A fbd6cf66b2eb
laravel-best-practices is a skill published in the GitHub repository josephmcgarvey/runcloud-mcp-server (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 114 tokens to every session and 966 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to laravel-best-practices, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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