What are the Laravel best practices AI skills included in Boost, and can I customize them?

Boost now ships a dedicated Laravel best practices AI skill that encapsulates over 100 curated rules to guide AI-generated code toward idiomatic Laravel patterns. You install it by updating your dependencies and running php artisan boost install, then you can inspect the skill file and the GitHub repo (AI/Laravel skills/best Laravel best practices) to see exactly which rules are applied and how they’re expressed. As Taylor Otwell’s team explains, the goal is to shape AI behavior so it yields code that’s not only correct but idiomatic for Eloquent, caching, authentication, and related areas, with the repository view helping you learn how those rules are defined. Nuño Maduro reinforces this by noting Boost best practices AI can generate idiomatic Laravel code, not just syntactically correct code, underscoring the “how to write it right” quality the skill enforces. And Ashley Hindle cautions that AI is a tool to augment skill, not replace it—the best practice is to manually set up reliable foundations (packages, CI, tests) and let AI assist within those guardrails. In short, yes—you can customize Boost’s best practices by editing or extending the custom rules/skill file in the Boost repo and adding your own rules for your project’s conventions, enabling your AI agent to follow your team’s preferred patterns from the start.

• As Taylor Otwell explains, the new Boost skill for Laravel best practices is designed to generate code that is idiomatic as well as correct, with a broad scope from Eloquent caching to authentication.
• Nuño Madureira points out that Boost’s best practices AI can produce idiomatic Laravel code, highlighting that the skill enforces style and pattern conventions beyond mere correctness.
• Ashley Hindle emphasizes that AI is a tool to augment human skill and that developers should manually establish solid foundations (packages, CI, tests) before relying on AI-enabled automation, which frames how you use and customize the skill responsibly.
• Taylor Otwell notes that you can explore the Boost GitHub repo under AI/Laravel skills/best Laravel best practices to understand exactly how rules are defined and applied, which is essential for customization.
• As demonstrated in the Boost install flow, developers can customize their setup by installing the skill and then modifying or extending the skill file to align AI outputs with their project’s conventions.