Cursor Rules Laravel Package

Product Decisions This Supports

• AI-assisted development standards: The package codifies Laravel/PHP coding conventions, testing patterns, and project structure into Cursor rules — a decision to standardize how AI-generated code looks across the team rather than letting each engineer's Cursor session drift toward personal style.
• Build vs. buy (adopt): Teams deciding whether to author internal .cursor/rules files from scratch or start from an opinionated baseline. At 11 stars and a short history, this is closer to "adopt a template" than "commit to a vendor."
• Onboarding and developer velocity: New engineers and contractors inherit consistent AI suggestions on day one, reducing review churn on trivial style issues in PRs.
• Engineering productivity roadmap: Supports a tactical initiative — "make AI coding tools produce mergeable code" — rather than a strategic platform bet. Useful as a cheap, reversible experiment before investing in a custom internal rules repo or a tooling platform.
• Governance of AI-generated code: Gives PM/eng-leadership a concrete artifact to point at when asked "what guardrails exist around our AI coding tools?"

When to Consider This Package

Consider it when:

• Your stack is predominantly PHP/Laravel and the team uses Cursor as the primary AI editor.
• You want a zero-runtime-dependency, MIT-licensed baseline — this ships rules/config files, not application code, so blast radius is low and rollback is trivial.
• You need a fast first iteration on AI coding standards and are willing to treat the rules as a starting fork to customize internally.
• The team is small-to-mid and would not maintain a rules repo on its own.

Look elsewhere when:

• The team is editor-diverse (VS Code Copilot, JetBrains AI, Claude Code, Codex). Cursor-specific rules don't travel; you'd want a tool-agnostic convention source (e.g., shared lint configs, ADRs, or an AGENTS.md-style standard).
• You require enterprise support, SLAs, or active upstream maintenance. With ~11 stars, bus factor and long-term stewardship are the risks — plan to fork and own it.
• Your conventions are highly bespoke (custom architecture, DDD layering, monorepo patterns). The defaults will fit poorly and you'll spend more time pruning than writing fresh.
• You're not on Laravel or you'd rather enforce conventions via runtime tooling (PHPStan, Pint, PHP_CodeSniffer, Pest) — those are enforceable in CI in ways that .cursor/rules files are not.

How to Pitch It (Stakeholders)

To executives: This is a low-cost, low-risk adoption. It's an MIT-licensed Composer package that installs Cursor's AI-coding conventions for Laravel projects. There are no runtime dependencies and no production surface — worst case we remove it. It buys us a consistent baseline for AI-assisted development without a custom tooling project, and creates a single place to evolve those standards.

To engineering leadership: Treat it as a seed, not a dependency. Fork it into an internal rules repo, adapt the conventions to our codebase, and gate it behind normal PR review. Keep an eye on upstream activity; expect to own this long-term. Pair it with enforceable tooling (Pint, PHPStan, Pest) so that "AI follows the rules" doesn't become the only line of defense — the rules nudge the model, the linters guarantee the outcome.

To engineers: Install via Composer, review the rules, and override anything that conflicts with our existing standards. It should make Cursor's suggestions land closer to "mergeable" on the first try, especially around tests and Laravel conventions. If you find a rule that's wrong for us, PR it — that's the whole point.