Building a Laravel MCP Server That Answers Questions Over Real Data
A hands-on guide to the Model Context Protocol in Laravel — from first principles to a live tool inside Claude Desktop
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) lets an AI assistant like Claude call into your application — running your code, reading your data, and answering questions it otherwise couldn't.
This tutorial teaches MCP in Laravel by building a working example: a read-only server that answers natural-language questions over a sales database and connecting it to Claude Desktop.
We'll use a sample sales dataset — customers, orders, products, payments — based on the well-known classicmodels sample database
