Laravel AI Engine

Laravel AI Engine is a Laravel package for AI chat orchestration, deterministic tool execution, RAG, and node federation across multiple Laravel apps.

Status (March 2026)

Current codebase includes:

• modular orchestrator (IntentRouter, AgentPlanner, action execution, response finalizer)
• autonomous RAG split into focused services (decision, execution, context/state, policy, feedback, structured data)
• deterministic node routing via ownership and manifest metadata (no AI-only node guessing)
• standardized response envelope (success, message, data, error, meta)
• localization stack (locale middleware, lexicons, prompt templates)
• prompt policy learning with DB-backed feedback events and policy versions
• infrastructure hardening (remote migration guard, Qdrant self-check, startup health gate)
• admin UI with user/email/IP access controls

Compatibility

• package: m-tech-stack/laravel-ai-engine
• PHP: ^8.1
• Laravel: 8.x | 9.x | 10.x | 11.x | 12.x
• Guzzle: ^7.0
• OpenAI PHP client: ^0.8 | ^0.9 | ^0.10
• Symfony HTTP client: ^5.4 | ^6.0 | ^7.0

Source of truth: composer.json.

Install

composer require m-tech-stack/laravel-ai-engine
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=ai-engine-config
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=ai-engine-migrations
php artisan migrate

Minimal Production Baseline

AI_ENGINE_DEFAULT=openai
AI_ENGINE_DEFAULT_MODEL=gpt-4o
AI_ORCHESTRATION_MODEL=gpt-4o-mini
OPENAI_API_KEY=your_key

AI_ENGINE_STANDARDIZE_API_RESPONSES=true
AI_ENGINE_API_RESPONSE_PRESERVE_LEGACY=true

AI_ENGINE_INJECT_USER_CONTEXT=true
AI_ENGINE_LOCALIZATION_ENABLED=true
AI_ENGINE_SUPPORTED_LOCALES=en,ar
AI_ENGINE_FALLBACK_LOCALE=en

AI_ENGINE_REMOTE_NODE_MIGRATION_GUARD=true
AI_ENGINE_QDRANT_SELF_CHECK_ENABLED=true
AI_ENGINE_STARTUP_HEALTH_GATE_ENABLED=true

For multi-app federation:

AI_ENGINE_NODES_ENABLED=true
AI_ENGINE_IS_MASTER=true
AI_ENGINE_NODE_JWT_SECRET=change_me

High-Value Commands

Diagnostics

php artisan ai-engine:test-package
php artisan ai-engine:test-real-agent --script=followup --json
php artisan ai-engine:infra-health

Federation (Safe Workflow)

php artisan ai-engine:node-list
php artisan ai-engine:node-ping --all
php artisan ai-engine:nodes-sync --file=config/ai-engine-nodes.json
php artisan ai-engine:nodes-sync --file=config/ai-engine-nodes.json --autofix
php artisan ai-engine:nodes-sync --file=config/ai-engine-nodes.json --apply --prune --ping --force
php artisan ai-engine:node-cleanup --status=error --days=0 --apply --force

Prompt Policy Learning (Policy-Level)

php artisan ai-engine:decision-feedback:report
php artisan ai-engine:decision-policy:evaluate --window-hours=48
php artisan ai-engine:decision-policy:create v2 --activate
php artisan ai-engine:decision-policy:activate 2

Entity List UX (Important)

List responses are model-driven:

• implement toRAGListPreview(?string $locale = null) for clean multi-line list cards
• implement toAISummarySource() for compact summary cache input

If toRAGListPreview() exists, it is preferred over fallback summary rendering in structured list responses.

Admin UI

Enable:

AI_ENGINE_ENABLE_ADMIN_UI=true
AI_ENGINE_ADMIN_PREFIX=ai-engine/admin
AI_ENGINE_ADMIN_ALLOWED_USER_IDS=1
AI_ENGINE_ADMIN_ALLOWED_EMAILS=admin@example.com
AI_ENGINE_ADMIN_ALLOWED_IPS=127.0.0.1,::1

Open: /ai-engine/admin (or your configured prefix).

API Contract

{
  "success": true,
  "message": "Request completed.",
  "data": {},
  "error": null,
  "meta": {}
}

Built-in direct generation endpoints:

• POST /api/v1/ai/generate/text
• POST /api/v1/ai/generate/image
• POST /api/v1/ai/generate/transcribe
• POST /api/v1/ai/generate/tts

Authenticated calls are credit-enforced (same policy as chat/RAG), including image/audio endpoints.

Toggle/prefix with env:

AI_ENGINE_GENERATE_API_ENABLED=true
AI_ENGINE_GENERATE_API_PREFIX=api/v1/ai/generate

Inject your own middleware into package API routes:

AI_ENGINE_API_APPEND_MIDDLEWARE=auth:sanctum
AI_ENGINE_API_GENERATE_MIDDLEWARE=throttle:30,1
# For multiple middlewares, separate with semicolon:
# AI_ENGINE_API_GENERATE_MIDDLEWARE=auth:sanctum;throttle:30,1
# Or use JSON array for exact values:
# AI_ENGINE_API_GENERATE_MIDDLEWARE=["auth:sanctum","throttle:30,1"]

Documentation

Deep docs are in docs-site (Mintlify).

Run locally:

cd docs-site
npx mintlify dev

Recommended reading order:

1. guides/quickstart
2. guides/concepts
3. guides/single-app-setup
4. guides/model-config-tools
5. guides/direct-generation-recipes
6. guides/entity-list-preview-ux
7. guides/data-collectors
8. guides/rag-indexing
9. guides/copy-paste-playbooks
10. guides/multi-app-federation
11. guides/policy-learning
12. guides/testing-playbook

Upgrading Existing Installs

If config was published before recent refactors, refresh it:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=ai-engine-config --force
php artisan optimize:clear

See docs-site/reference/upgrade.mdx for the upgrade checklist.

License

MIT