Use Laravel to create your own MCP server (opens in new tab)

Claude can already work with your Laravel app. Not by you hand-building a REST API, writing a client, and describing every endpoint to it, but by exposing a few tools over the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and letting the model call them directly. The official laravel/mcp package turns that into an afternoon's work. This is the hands-on version. We'll build a small MCP server for an online shop: tools the model can call, a resource it can read, input validation, auth, and a test to keep it hon...