Development with AI

Lattice is a natural fit for AI-assisted development. Because the whole UI is described in PHP, an agent that knows Lattice’s APIs can build entire screens — pages, forms, tables, actions — without anyone hand-writing the React. To make that reliable, Lattice ships first-class support for Laravel Boost, the toolkit that gives agents Laravel-aware context.

Laravel Boost

Laravel Boost is an MCP server plus a bundle of AI guidelines and skills for coding agents. Install it in your application:

composer require laravel/boost --dev
php artisan boost:install

boost:install registers the MCP server — so the agent can inspect your database, models, routes, and search the Laravel ecosystem docs — and writes guideline files (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, …) and skills for the agents you select, scoped to the packages you actually have installed. Lattice is one of them.

What Lattice contributes

When Boost runs in an app that has Lattice installed, it discovers the guidelines and skills Lattice ships, so your agent learns Lattice’s conventions automatically:

• Core guideline — always loaded. A compact overview of the server-driven model, how to build and route a page, the building blocks, the discovery and configuration conventions, and the lattice:* artisan commands.
• lattice-forms skill — building forms: fields, Select/Choice options, validation and live Precognition, conditional and computed fields, and the submit lifecycle.
• lattice-tables skill — building tables: columns, the Eloquent builder, sortable and filterable columns, custom data sources, and row & bulk actions.
• lattice-actions skill — actions and bulk actions: ActionResult effects, confirmation and input-form modals, and authorization.

Guidelines load up front so the agent always has the mental model; skills load on demand when the agent works in that area, which keeps its context focused. See Guidelines vs. Skills in the Boost docs for the distinction.

Keeping them current

Lattice’s guidelines and skills are versioned with the package. After upgrading Lattice — or any ecosystem package — refresh the generated resources:

php artisan boost:update

Add --discover to let Boost scan for newly installed packages and offer to publish their guidelines and skills:

php artisan boost:update --discover

Tip

You can automate this by adding @php artisan boost:update --ansi to your composer.json post-update-cmd scripts, so the resources stay in sync whenever you update dependencies.

A habit worth keeping

One Lattice-specific step the core guideline already teaches your agent — worth knowing yourself: after changing the PHP wire format (enums, value objects) or adding a custom component, field, or column, regenerate the TypeScript types so the React side stays in lockstep.

php artisan lattice:typescript