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LARAVEL OPENS MCP TO THE NETWORK

By RepoJournal · Filed · About Laravel

The MCP client can now reach remote servers over HTTP, not just local stdio, fundamentally expanding what Laravel can do with external AI providers and tools.

Laravel's MCP integration just broke out of the localhost box [1]. You could only talk to local MCP servers via stdio before; now you're adding Streamable HTTP transport that lets you call remote servers with a simple Bearer token. This is the infrastructure play that matters. Meanwhile, the framework is tightening its grip on observability [2]: you can now detect when a job was actually skipped due to mutex contention instead of guessing. The Cache attribute is learning memoization [3], which pairs perfectly with Laravel 13's cache memoization feature for cleaner dependency injection. On the AI front, Claude Opus 4.8 just landed as Anthropic's smartest model [4], and Laravel AI bumped it immediately with zero breaking changes. Anthropic kept the API surface the same: same context window, same output limits, same adaptive thinking. Your `#[UseSmartestModel]` attribute just got smarter without requiring any code changes [5].

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References

  1. [1] Add MCP client Streamable HTTP transport ↗ laravel/mcp
  2. [2] [13.x] Indicate an event was skipped ↗ laravel/framework
  3. [3] [13.x] Enhance Cache attribute to support memoization ↗ laravel/framework
  4. [4] Set claude-opus-4-8 as Anthropic's smartest text model ↗ laravel/ai
  5. [5] v0.7.2 ↗ laravel/ai

Quick answers

What shipped in Laravel on May 29, 2026?
The MCP client can now reach remote servers over HTTP, not just local stdio, fundamentally expanding what Laravel can do with external AI providers and tools. In total, 6 commits, 5 pull requests, and 1 releases landed.
Who contributed to Laravel on May 29, 2026?
3 developers shipped this update, including pushpak1300, cosmastech, and jenky.
What were the notable Laravel updates?
Add MCP client Streamable HTTP transport, [13.x] Indicate an event was skipped, and [13.x] Enhance Cache attribute to support memoization.

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