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name: laravel-best-practices description: Laravel development standards. Triggers when working with Laravel applications, Eloquent ORM, Blade templates, or Livewire components. trigger_patterns:

• laravel
• eloquent
• blade
• livewire
• artisan
• composer.json
• app/Models
• app/Http auto_load_with:
• php-best-practices
• mysql-best-practices

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Laravel Best Practices

Comprehensive coding standards for Laravel applications, optimized for AI agents and LLMs.

Overview

This skill provides 26 rules organized across 8 categories:

1. Security (security-) - CSRF, XSS, SQL injection, mass assignment [CRITICAL]
2. Eloquent Optimization (eloquent-) - Eager loading, chunking, lazy collections [CRITICAL]
3. Performance (perf-) - Route caching, config caching, OPcache [HIGH]
4. Architecture (arch-) - Service containers, repositories, actions [HIGH]
5. API Development (api-) - Resources, rate limiting, versioning [MEDIUM-HIGH]
6. Testing (test-) - Feature tests, mocking, factories [MEDIUM]
7. Queue & Jobs (queue-) - Job batching, rate limiting, retries [MEDIUM]
8. Livewire (livewire-) - Wire navigation, lazy loading, polling [LOW-MEDIUM]

Usage

Reference this skill when:

• Building Laravel applications
• Optimizing Eloquent queries
• Implementing API endpoints
• Setting up job queues
• Writing tests

Build

Copypnpm build    # Compile rules to AGENTS.md
pnpm validate # Validate rule files