Prompt: Useful Laravel Packages Suggestions
I decided to write a prompt so AI agent would research the market for useful Laravel/PHP packages suitable for specific project, based on its existing codebase.
I decided to write a prompt so AI agent would research the market for useful Laravel/PHP packages suitable for specific project, based on its existing codebase.
I've found a great article by G-J van Rooyen where he suggests two prompts for the case when you inherit an old codebase and need to quickly understand the flaws and the backstory of main code decisions.
Claude Code can give you a hint on what you can do better next time.
I've taken a skill from Claude Code Templates and adapted it to PHP/Laravel projects.
An extremely underrated step to include in your AI coding workflow: "make an interactive html site with a visual explanation of X".
I've created a Claude Code Slash command for myself, to check whether certain skills or MCPs were actually used during the execution of the prompt.
On Jan 18, 2026, Matt Pocock posted this on X: Bad AGENTS.md files can make your coding agent worse and cost you tokens. Here's a prompt you can use to clean them up.
This is how we work with new Laravel projects in our team.
Thariq's favorite way to use Claude Code to build large features is spec based.
A simple but very effective rule I use in Claude Code is this "comments[.]md" file. It prevents Claude from writing slop comments like "increment counter" on already self-documenting code.