Installation

This page covers the steps to add revolution/laravel-boost-copilot-cli to a Laravel application as a Composer dev dependency, including version requirements and automatic service provider registration. For the subsequent step of generating configuration files with boost:install, see Configuration Generation. For environment-specific setup (Sail, Testbench), see Environment-Specific Setup.

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Requirements

Requirement	Minimum Version
PHP	8.2
Laravel	12.x
laravel/boost	2.0
GitHub Copilot CLI binary	0.0.343

The PHP and illuminate/support version constraints are declared in composer.json11-14

Supported Platforms

Platform	Notes
macOS	Fully supported
Linux	Fully supported
WSL	Supported; preferred over native Windows
Native Windows	Installable, but WSL is recommended
Laravel Sail	Supported; start Sail before use (vendor/bin/sail up -d); copilot runs outside Sail

Sources: README.md9-29

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Installing the Package

Install the package as a dev dependency using Composer:

This is a development tool — it should not be included in production dependencies.

Sources: README.md36-39

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Service Provider Auto-Discovery

Laravel's package auto-discovery mechanism registers CopilotCliServiceProvider automatically. No manual registration in bootstrap/providers.php or config/app.php is needed.

The provider is declared in composer.json46-50 under the extra.laravel.providers key:

Revolution\Laravel\Boost\CopilotCliServiceProvider

Auto-discovery flow:

Sources: composer.json46-50 README.md36-39

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Dependency Graph

The following diagram maps the package's runtime and external tool dependencies to the relevant code and configuration entities.

Sources: composer.json11-15 README.md9-14

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What Composer Does Not Install

The Copilot CLI binary (copilot) is not a Composer dependency. It must be installed separately according to the GitHub Copilot CLI documentation. The composer require command only installs the Laravel-side integration package.

Sources: README.md9-14

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Next Steps

After installation, run php artisan boost:install to generate the .github/mcp-config.json, instruction files, and boost.json. See Configuration Generation for a full walkthrough of that command.