Symfony AI Context Bundle

🔍 Automatically generate a structured, AI-ready JSON context from your Symfony application — including entities, services, controllers, routes, repositories, and more. Perfect for feeding to LLMs like GPT for code understanding, generation, or assistance.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Configuration
• Usage
• Supported extractors
• Output example
• Example prompts
• Contributing
• License
• Credits

Installation

composer require ai-context/symfony-ai-context-bundle --dev

Make sure the bundle is enabled (Symfony Flex should do this automatically):

// config/bundles.php
return [
    AiContextBundle\AiContextBundle::class => ['dev' => true, 'test' => true],
];

Configuration

Configure the bundle in config/packages/ai_context.yaml you can edit the default values:

ai_context:
    output_dir: '%kernel.project_dir%/var/ai_context'
    output_filename: 'ai-context.json'
    output_dir_checksum: '%kernel.project_dir%/var/ai-context/ai-context-checksum.json'
    include:
        routes: true
        entities: true
        services: true
        controllers: true
        repositories: true
        events: true
        forms: true
    paths:
        entities: ['%kernel.project_dir%/src/Entity']
        services: ['%kernel.project_dir%/src/Service']
        controllers: ['%kernel.project_dir%/src/Controller']
        repositories: ['%kernel.project_dir%/src/Repository']
        events: ['%kernel.project_dir%/src/Event']
        forms: ['%kernel.project_dir%/src/Form']

Usage

Generate the AI context:

php bin/console ai-context:generate

The command outputs a structured JSON file (by default in var/ai_context/ai-context.json) including:

Supported extractors

Output example

{
    "entities": [
        {
            "entity": "App\\Entity\\Article",
            "fields": {
                "id": "integer",
                "name": "string",
                "createdAt": "datetime_immutable",
                "updatedAt": "datetime_immutable"
            },
            "associations": {
                "category": "ManyToOne => App\\Entity\\Category",
                "inventories": "OneToMany => App\\Entity\\Inventory"
            }
        }
    ],
    "controllers": [
        {
            "class": "App\\Controller\\ArticleController",
            "short": "ArticleController",
            "methods": [
                {
                    "name": "new",
                    "parameters": [
                        "$request: Symfony\\Component\\HttpFoundation\\Request",
                        "$entityManager: Doctrine\\ORM\\EntityManagerInterface"
                    ],
                    "route": {
                        "path": "/article/new",
                        "methods": ["POST", "GET"],
                        "name": "app_article_new"
                    }
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "routes": [
        {
            "name": "app_article_new",
            "path": "/article/new",
            "methods": ["POST", "GET"],
            "controller": "App\\Controller\\ArticleController::new",
            "defaults": {},
            "requirements": {}
        }
    ],
    "services": [
        {
            "class": "App\\Service\\StockManagerService",
            "short": "StockManagerService",
            "methods": [
                {
                    "name": "processStock",
                    "parameters": [
                        {"name": "articleName", "type": "string"},
                        {"name": "quantity", "type": "int"},
                        {"name": "action", "type": "string"},
                        {"name": "categoryName", "type": "?string"},
                        {"name": "user", "type": "?App\\Entity\\User"}
                    ],
                    "returnType": "void"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Perfect to feed into LLMs like GPT for project understanding.

Then you can use the AI context in your preferred LLMs or AI tools to enhance your Symfony development experience.

Example prompts

 Can you give me a list of all the routes in my Symfony application?
 
 Generate a readme file with install process.
 
 List all services available with a quick description of each one.
 
 Give me full details of how work the <name service> service.

Whatever you need, the AI context is here to help you!

Contributing

PRs welcome! To contribute:

• Fork the repository
• Create a branch
• Write tests or improve extractors
• Submit a pull request

License

Released under the MIT License

Credits

Developed with ❤️ by Guillaume Valadas Part of the AI Context Lab