Build a read-only Laravel MCP server that lets Claude answer natural-language questions over your database — test it with the MCP Inspector, make the tools agent-native, and connect it to Claude Desktop.

MCP went from an obscure Anthropic spec to the de facto standard for connecting AI to real tools in 18 months. Here's the honest first-person build log — setup, working code, what…

Build a read-only Laravel MCP server that lets Claude answer natural-language questions over your database — test it with the MCP Inspector, make the tools agent-native, and…

I spent today wiring an MCP server into a Laravel app that manages a Kong API gateway. The...