By Rico Daniel Catacutan13 min read
How to Build a Laravel MCP Server and Connect It to Claude
Build a Laravel MCP server with one tool, connect it to Claude Code, then add Passport OAuth so it works as a claude.ai custom connector.
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About Rico
Rico Daniel Catacutan is the lead developer at Tudlora. He has been building software for over five years, and his work covers the whole range of a modern product: backends, frontends, mobile apps and browser extensions.
On the backend he works mainly in Laravel and Python. On the frontend he builds with Next.js, and TypeScript, and for mobile he uses React Native. He also handles his own deployments, running things on Linux with Nginx and Cloudflare.
He also led the development of SpacePrompts, an AI prompt manager with browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox and Edge.
At Tudlora he built the course search, which brings courses from different platforms together in one place so they can be compared side by side. He also writes developer guides: step-by-step tutorials built around the same tools he works with.
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