Leaf 5 ships with AI-assistant workflows built into the framework
Leaf PHP framework creator Michael Darko has released Leaf 5, described as the project's largest update yet.
R/PHP (TOP), August 17, 2026
curated by Sönke
It adds self-explaining error screens, token-efficient documentation and a .leaf/CONTEXT.md file for persistent AI-agent memory. About 30 modules reached stable status alongside the release, plus the framework-agnostic QA tool Alchemy, which configures testing setups via a single YAML file.
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