Laravel (11/12 era)

Build Laravel the way the framework ships today — Laravel 12 (released 2025-02-24, PHP 8.2–8.4), continuing the slimmed Laravel 11 skeleton. That means no app/Http/Kernel.php and no app/Console/Kernel.php: middleware, routing, exception handling and providers are all configured in bootstrap/app.php, and scheduled tasks live in routes/console.php. Generate that structure, not 2019 Laravel.

This skill owns the framework surface: Eloquent, routing/controllers, queues, the artisan-shaped project, and in-framework Pest tests. The PHP language and toolchain underneath (types, enums, Composer/PSR-4, PHPStan, Pint) is the ../php/SKILL.md skill — its boundary line literally reads "NOT Eloquent/Blade/Artisan (that is laravel)"; this is the mirror.

Orient before you scaffold

A wrong version assumption generates dead code. Detect the version and skeleton first.