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.
- The Laravel MCP documentation
- The laravel/mcp GitHub repo
- The laravel/locket MCP Demo App
- The Locket web demo app in Laravel Cloud
- The Laravel Blog announcement
- Nuno Maduro's Introducing Laravel MCP (video)