Laravel MCP Beta is Released

The Laravel team launched a public beta of Laravel MCP, a package to rapidly build Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for your Laravel applications. Laravel MCP joins Laravel Boost as a first-party tool that makes working with AI in Laravel a joy build.

Laravel MCP provides a framework for AI clients to interact with your Laravel application, defining routes, servers, prompts, and more:

namespace App\Mcp\Servers;

use Laravel\Mcp\Server;

class WeatherServer extends Server
{
    /**
     * The tools registered with this MCP server.
     *
     * @var array<int, class-string<\Laravel\Mcp\Server\Tool>>
     */
    protected array $tools = [
        // ExampleTool::class,
    ];

    /**
     * The resources registered with this MCP server.
     *
     * @var array<int, class-string<\Laravel\Mcp\Server\Resource>>
     */
    protected array $resources = [
        // ExampleResource::class,
    ];

    /**
     * The prompts registered with this MCP server.
     *
     * @var array<int, class-string<\Laravel\Mcp\Server\Prompt>>
     */
    protected array $prompts = [
        // ExamplePrompt::class,
    ];
}

Servers define the central communication point to provide capabilities such as tools, resources, and prompts. Here's an example of a CurrentWeatherTool from the documentation to give you a quick taste of building with Laravel MCP:

namespace App\Mcp\Tools;

use Illuminate\JsonSchema\JsonSchema;
use Laravel\Mcp\Request;
use Laravel\Mcp\Response;
use Laravel\Mcp\Server\Tool;

class CurrentWeatherTool extends Tool
{
    protected string $description = 'Fetches the current weather forecast for a specified location.';

    public function handle(Request $request): Response
    {
        $location = $request->get('location');

        // Get weather...

        return Response::text('The weather is...');
    }

    public function schema(JsonSchema $schema): array
    {
        return [
            'location' => $schema->string()
                ->description('The location to get the weather for.')
                ->required(),
        ];
    }
}

Laravel MCP is released to the public as a beta version, but it already feels like a polished Laravel package. It feels very much like building MVC Laravel applications, and I think this package will help the Laravel community productively build MCP servers that are not only a joy to use, but also to build.

Learn More

With the beta release of Laravel MCP, there are a lot of resources to get started. I recommend reading the documentation first, and then diving into the Laravel/Locket demo code to provide examples of how to build servers, tools, and prompts.