How to Use Laravel Boost with Gemini CLI

William Meier — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 16:39:45 +0000

Laravel Boost is an MCP server equipped with over 15 tools to help your AI assistant generate high-quality Laravel code.

By default, your installation doesn’t include an option to run with Gemini CLI, — but there’s an easy way to set it up.

1. Install Gemini CLI

If you haven’t installed it yet, run this command to install Gemini CLI globally:

npm install -g @google/gemini-cli

2. Install Laravel Boost

Navigate to your Laravel project and install the package:

composer require laravel/boost --dev

Then install the MCP server and the coding guidelines:

php artisan boost:install

3. Configure Gemini CLI

Once installation is complete, create a JSON file for your Gemini CLI settings at:

.gemini/settings.json

Paste the following content inside:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "laravel-boost": {
      "command": "php",
      "args": ["artisan", "boost:mcp"]
    }
  }
}

That’s it!
Now start Gemini CLI in your terminal — it will automatically load Laravel Boost.

4. Verify the MCP Integration

To confirm that the MCP servers and tools are properly integrated, start the Gemini CLI and run:

/mcp list

You should see a list of all available tools.

Bonus: Integrate with Laravel Herd

Laravel Boost also includes some tools for Herd.
If you have Herd installed and want to use it with Gemini CLI, just copy the "herd" object from your editor’s MCP configuration file (for example, .vscode/mcp.json) and paste it into your .gemini/settings.json file, right after the "laravel-boost" object.

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "laravel-boost": {
            "command": "php",
            "args": ["artisan", "boost:mcp"]
        },
        "herd": {
            "command": "php",
            "args": ["C:/Users/user/.config/herd/bin/herd-mcp.phar"],
            "env": {
                "SITE_PATH": "C:\\OurPath\\project-name"
            }
        }
    }
}

That’s it! 🎉
I hope this helps you get Laravel Boost running smoothly with Gemini CLI.

Laravel - How to solve error "PHP Artisan Serve Failed"

William Meier — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 13:54:28 +0000

Solve error “Failed to listen on 127.0.0.1:8000 (reason: ?)” when run “php artisan serve”

Resolution

Access your php.ini file in your PHP version folder. If you like me are using Laravel Herd on Windows you can access using the route "%USERPROFILE%.config\herd\bin".
Now in your php.ini change the "variables_order" value.

// before
variables_order = "EGPCS"

// after
variables_order = "GPCS"

Alternative

If this don't work you can also start the server with PHP start command.

php -S localhost:8000 -t public

That's it. I hope it will help you.

Edit - Alternative 2

If you use Laravel Herd for manage your PHP versions you don't need run de command for your projects. You can in the "Sites" tab add your projects folder, then in the browser url just type your project name with ".test".

Ex: http://my-project.test

That’s it! 🎉
I hope it will help you.