Laravel Skills Directory: How to Use AI Agent Skills (And Build Your Own)

Originally published at hafiz.dev If you've been using Claude Code or Cursor with Laravel, you've probably felt the friction. Your AI agent doesn't know your coding conventions. It generates decent code, sure, but it's not your code. It doesn't follow your architecture patterns, your testing approach, or the way you structure Eloquent relationships. Laravel just solved that problem. skills.laravel.cloud launched this week as an open directory of reusable AI agent skills for Laravel and PHP developers. Think of it like a package registry, but instead of installing PHP packages, you're installing knowledge modules that teach your AI coding agent how to write better Laravel code. And it works with Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, and basically every AI coding tool you're already using. The directory already has 96 skills and it's growing fast. But the real power isn't just browsing and installing pre-made skills. It's building your own. Let me show you the full picture. What Are La