Laravel is a PHP workable choice for government / public sector. GreatCTO auto-detects both — adds the gov-public archetype overlay, wires gov-public-specific gates, and runs 83 specialist agents around your existing Laravel workflow.
GreatCTO reads your composer.json and detects laravel + gov-public archetype from signals: imports, file structure, env vars, README hints.
Attaches the gov-public archetype overlay: FedRAMP authorization scope, FISMA, 508 a11y, CJIS for law-enforcement. Override if your specifics differ; the defaults are sensible for Laravel-style projects.
qa-engineer runs phpstan / phpunit / psalm; security-officer checks SQL injection + Laravel CSRF; performance-engineer reviews query N+1 + Redis cache patterns.
Bugs you've hit before in other Laravel projects (connection-pool exhaustion, ORM N+1 queries, retry storms) — the agent's Step 0 includes the prior detection order. MTTR drops 94 % on second occurrence (methodology).
$ cd my-laravel-app && npx great-cto init ✓ scanning manifests… found manifest ✓ stack: laravel (PHP) ✓ archetype: gov-public ⚠ archetype + stack combo is unusual — review overlay manually ✓ 83 agents ready $ /start "add public records API" ▸ architect drafting ARCH-gov-public.md… ▸ pm decomposing into beads tasks… ⚐ gate:plan — your approval needed
Approve → 3 senior-devs run in parallel worktrees → 5 reviewers fan out in parallel → gate:ship → deploy. One real run walked stage-by-stage: /proof.
This is the shape of what senior-dev drafts for "public records API" — auth first, schema validation, and the audit line the gov-public reviewer requires before gate:ship opens.
// app/Http/Controllers/GovPublicController.php — reviewed by 5 agents
class GovPublicController extends Controller
{
public function __construct() {
$this->middleware('auth'); // security-officer: auth before handler
}
public function store(StoreGovPublicRequest $request) {
$result = $this->service->handle($request->validated(), $request->user());
AuditLog::record($request->user()->id, 'public records API',
$result->confidence); // gate:gov-public: every decision logged
return response()->json($result);
}
}gov-public overlay.FedRAMP-scoped services with NIST 800-53 mapping.
Citizen portals with Section 508 accessibility.
Law-enforcement integrations under CJIS.
Laravel (PHP) is not a typical fit for government / public sector. The archetype overlay still attaches, but you may want to override defaults more aggressively. Check the gov-public archetype page for the typical stack list and decide if your case is the right tool / right archetype.
No black-box "AI does it all" loop. GreatCTO is a deterministic state machine — 8 stages, 22 nodes, 2 human gates. Every node maps to a real agent on GitHub. Inspect the state machine →
$ npx great-cto init
Free, MIT, runs locally. Built as a Claude Code plugin — install with one command.
Eight stages, two human gates, four memory layers. Why this exact shape, and what I tried that didn't work.
One run, one feature, from prompt to merged PR. Time, cost, and gate-by-gate breakdown — no marketing math.
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