Starter Kit Upgrade

If you've ever bootstrapped a Laravel project from one of the official starter kits and then customized it, you know the pain of pulling in upstream improvements months later. This skill does the hard part: it cherry-picks individual features from the upstream kit (like toast notifications or a 2FA fix) into your project on a dedicated branch, one commit per feature. It won't auto-merge files you've customized, won't touch your current branch until you're ready, and bails if your tests break. The safety contract is strict: clean working tree required, no silent overwrites of package manifests, and it detects whether you're on Fortify or WorkOS, with or without teams, before doing anything.

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last updated: Jun 11, 2026

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$ npx -y skills add laravel/agent-skills --skill starter-kit-upgrade --agent claude-code

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Laravel Starter Kit Upgrade

Users bootstrap from laravel/vue-starter-kit, react-starter-kit, svelte-starter-kit, or livewire-starter-kit, then customize. They own the code.
We pick specific features from upstream (e.g. "toast notifications", "2FA autofocus fix"), not "version upgrades."
The user's git history is unrelated to the kit's. There is no common ancestor. We compare user-now vs upstream-now, byte by byte.
We never auto-merge a customized file. Customizations are surfaced; the user decides.
Behavior preservation is the contract: the user's currently-passing tests/typecheck/build must still pass after.