#Php

An artisan command, a queue and Claude Code in headless mode (claude -p) generating 11 sites inside the subscription. How to orchestrate the agent from PHP, where the math works out, and how to plug in Higgsfield as an asset step with a budget controlled by code.

The internet treats the Laravel AI SDK and Prism PHP as competitors and keeps repeating that the official SDK uses Prism under the hood. The composer.json says otherwise. In this post: what each package actually does, the code side by side, the table of what only exists in one of them, the release cadence of both, and a decision guide by concrete case. No "it depends".

The Laravel AI SDK is Laravel's first-party AI package: agents as PHP classes, tool calling, structured output, streaming, embeddings with pgvector and fakes for testing without burning tokens. A practical guide from composer require to your first running agent, covering what the SDK solves, what it doesn't, and the limitations nobody tells you about.