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laravel-upgrade from majdghithan/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add majdghithan/agent-skills/laravel-upgrade@git:20260729.4bed2caPins git:20260729.4bed2ca in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
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- SKILL.md skill
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- majdghithan/agent-skills
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- git:20260729.4bed2ca, committed Jul 29, 2026
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- MIT
Upgrade a Laravel application across major versions safely (Laravel 8 -> 9 -> 10 -> 11 -> 12 -> 13), one hop at a time. Use when upgrading Laravel, when a `composer update` fails after a major bump, when deciding whether to hop versions by hand or pay for Laravel Shift, or when something compiled fine but broke at runtime after an upgrade. Detects the current version from composer.json, then loads only the hop guides you need. Focuses on the runtime bites the official upgrade guide underplays…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Laravel: version upgrades (8 -> 13)
Laravel's own upgrade guides at `laravel.com/docs/{ver}/upgrade` are genuinely good and list every mechanical rename. This skill does NOT repeat them. It carries the two things the docs and Shift do not give you: **the runtime bites that pass compilation and break later**, and **the judgment call of whether to hand-upgrade or pay Shift to do it.**
## The three rules that prevent a bad upgrade
1. **PHP first, framework second.** Every major has a hard PHP floor. Bump and deploy the PHP version on its own, confirm the app runs green on the new PHP under the *old* Laravel, then upgrade Laravel. Doing both at once means you cannot tell which one broke.
2. **Hop, never leap.** Upgrade one major at a time (10 -> 11 -> 12, not 10 -> 12). Each hop's guide assumes you came from the one before it. The exception is Shift, which chains hops for you.
3. **Tests are the upgrade plan.** If the suite is thin, the "bites" below are what bites you in production instead. Before a multi-version upgrade, add feature tests on the money/auth/critical paths first. No suite -> upgrade one hop, exercise the app hard, then the next.
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How to install
mdr add majdghithan/agent-skills/laravel-upgrade@sha256:9ff6e404f72fe020The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260729.4bed2ca, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
majdghithan/agent-skills · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zg6q4e7v5bcwkkb5 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=majdghithan/agent-skills/laravel-upgrade GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9ff6e404f72fe020e07feb805af00a5e8d0c033694adf7bca6d4a6d9dcbf2b2f
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