Laravel MCP Beta is Released

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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.

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