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Talk Intermediate MIT First Talk

Building Better AI Agents for Laravel with Neo4j Boost

Proposal status is Rejected
Session Description

Laravel applications are complex systems of services, dependencies, models, and components. As applications grow, understanding how these pieces connect becomes increasingly difficult.

Knowledge Graphs represent these relationships as connected, queryable context. In this session, we’ll explore how we built Neo4j Boost, an open-source Knowledge Graph for Laravel, and how it transforms Laravel application architecture into graph-powered context.

In this session, you'll see how Neo4j represents Laravel architecture and how MCP (Model Context Protocol) connects this context with AI assistants. You'll learn why we built it, how it works, and how to use it in Laravel projects.

The session focuses on three key benefits: increased observability, efficiency, and correctness. We'll demonstrate how AI can use Knowledge Graph context to better understand Laravel architecture and how graph-based context can complement traditional code search.

The goal is to show how Knowledge Graphs + Neo4j + MCP + AI can give developers a deeper understanding of Laravel applications and their relationships.

Key Takeaways
  1. Understand how Knowledge Graphs can represent Laravel architecture, dependencies, and relationships.

  2. Learn how Neo4j and MCP connect Laravel application context with AI assistants.

  3. See how graph-powered context can increase observability across complex Laravel applications.

  4. Explore how it can increase efficiency in debugging, onboarding, and architecture exploration.

  5. Understand how richer architectural context can support correctness, and learn why we built and how to use Neo4j Boost.

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Session Categories

Technology architecture
Talk License: MIT

Speakers

Pratiksha Zalte
Pratiksha Zalte IT Engineer | Nagels IT India Pvt Ltd

IT Engineer, Nagels and Contributor, Neo4j PHP Driver

I’m an IT Engineer at Nagels and an open-source contributor to the Neo4j PHP Driver. My work focuses on database drivers, protocol compliance, testing infrastructure, and graph technologies. I contribute to improving Neo4j PHP Driver support for TestKit, helping ensure consistency, compatibility, and reliability across the Neo4j ecosystem.

I’m passionate about open-source development, graph databases, and building robust developer tooling. I enjoy exploring the internals of distributed systems, database protocols, and the technologies that power modern data-driven applications.

Reviews

Thanks for the submission. We felt this talk is too focused on individual tools like Neo4j, Laravel etc rather than engineering takeaways that apply to a general open-source audience. Due to tight schedule limits, we won't be able to include it this year.

Reviewer #1 Rejected