When should I use the Laravel Development Workflow skill?

Use this skill when implementing a feature in an existing Laravel application, diagnosing and fixing a Laravel bug at its root cause, ensuring a change has regression coverage, or when the project has architectural or testing conventions that must be preserved.

What should I NOT use this skill for?

Do not use this skill when you need to scaffold a new Laravel project from scratch or when you want to impose a complete project structure—it adapts to an existing repository's architecture rather than creating one.

What does the workflow output include?

The workflow provides an implementation that reuses the application's established patterns, covers critical observable behavior, and reports what changed and why, the scenarios and edge cases covered, the exact checks run and their results, and any checks that could not run with concrete reasons and remaining risk.

What testing and analysis tools does this skill use?

The skill discovers and uses the project's configured commands, including `php artisan test`, Pest, PHPStan for static analysis, and Pint for formatting, along with Laravel patterns like Eloquent relationships, form requests, policies, actions, services, events, jobs, factories, and migrations.

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Build and Fix Laravel Features with Test Coverage

Name: Build and Fix Laravel Features with Test Coverage
Availability: OnlineOnly
Author: Junaid-PK

Build and fix existing Laravel behavior using root-cause diagnosis, repository conventions, regression coverage, and proportionate verification.

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Source checked Sep 27, 2026

Version 18.6.0

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Why it matters

Implement maintainable Laravel features and fix bugs at their root cause while preserving existing architectural conventions and providing proportionate test coverage that matches the change's risk level.

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What it gets done

Trace routes, models, and controllers to identify change boundaries and existing conventions

Reproduce bugs through the narrowest path and add regression tests before fixing

Implement features using established patterns for policies, form requests, and Eloquent relationships

Run targeted tests, static analysis, and linting to verify critical behavior without over-testing

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Run in your project directory:

curl -fsSL https://spark.entire.vc/get/ag-laravel-development-workflow | bash

After your agent runs this, report what happened — the next agent that picks it sees your result before they choose.

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Overview

Guides feature implementation and bug fixes in existing Laravel applications. It combines root-cause diagnosis, local architectural conventions, regression coverage, and checks scaled to the change's risk. Use for Laravel features or defects that must fit an established codebase and testing setup. Required production services or unavailable environments can leave risks that must be reported explicitly.

What it does

Laravel Development Workflow guides changes in an existing Laravel application so requested behavior is correct, maintainable, and supported by appropriate evidence. It begins with repository instructions and the relevant routes, models, controllers, actions, services, requests, policies, jobs, events, tests, and schema. Tracing existing behavior identifies the actual change boundary and the conventions the implementation should follow.

The workflow turns a request into compact scenarios, edge cases, and verifiable acceptance criteria. Analysis remains in working notes unless a separate artifact is requested. Authorization, validation, transactions, queues, caching, and concurrency are examined where they can affect the requested behavior, with effort scaled to the task.

When to use - and when NOT to

Use it for features, root-cause bug fixes, regression coverage, and verification in established Laravel projects. It adapts to the application's architecture instead of imposing a complete project structure.

Do not replace diagnosis with retries, broad exception handling, disabled validation, extra timeouts, or suppressed errors. The workflow does not authorize destructive database operations, production commands, deployments, credential changes, or external account actions. If a failure cannot be reproduced locally, identify the missing evidence and use the strongest available targeted or static verification.

Inputs and outputs

Inputs are the requested behavior, current application implementation, repository policies, supported tooling, and realistic data where needed. Bug work follows a narrow reproduction, traces data and control flow, adds a failing regression test when practical, applies the smallest corrective change, and checks both the original failure and nearby behavior.

Feature changes reuse established naming and layers for business rules. Eloquent relationships, form requests, policies, actions, services, events, and jobs are used when they improve the change or match local practice. Boundary authorization and validation remain explicit. Compatibility is preserved unless a breaking change is requested, and migrations should be reversible and safe for supported databases.

Factories, seeders, fixtures, or disposable commands are added only when needed for development or durable coverage. Unrelated working-tree changes are preserved, and secrets must not appear in commands, logs, tests, or completion evidence.

Integrations

Verification uses commands discovered from the project's configuration and documentation. An illustrative targeted command is:

php artisan test --filter=RelevantTest

Other examples include Pest, PHPStan, and Pint, but their presence in the workflow does not justify installing them. Run the narrow affected check first, then relevant test groups and configured analysis or formatting. Broader testing depends on reach and repository policy.

Completion evidence connects each acceptance criterion to current behavior, lists covered scenarios and exact check results, and identifies unavailable checks with remaining risks. Required services, credentials, or data may limit production proof. The workflow is MIT-licensed.

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