Laravel PAO formats PHPUnit, Pest, PHPStan, Rector, and Artisan output into structured JSON for AI agents automatically and without changing your terminal.

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Laravel PAO (PHP Agent-Optimized Output) is a new dev dependency included by default in new Laravel applications. It detects when PHP tools like PHPUnit, Pest, Paratest, PHPStan, Rector, and Artisan are being run inside an AI agent environment (Claude Code, Cursor, Devin, etc.) and reformats their output into compact, structured JSON. Human terminal output remains unchanged. PAO works via Composer's file autoload, injecting itself early in the PHP process, and uses each tool's native APIs rather than scraping terminal text. The result is cleaner, token-efficient output that helps AI agents identify failures, file paths, line numbers, and error details without parsing ANSI-decorated terminal noise.

Introducing Laravel PAO: Cleaner Output for AI Agents

# Available by Default to Provide Better Defaults for AI Agents