--- title: The New Debug Bar for Laravel | daily.dev description: A new open-source debug bar for Laravel offers a cleaner, redesigned interface compared to the older, dated debug bar, with support for light/dark modes and a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-new-debug-bar-for-laravel-ucjxhtzdb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The New Debug Bar for Laravel | daily.dev og:description: A new open-source debug bar for Laravel offers a cleaner, redesigned interface compared to the older, dated debug bar, with support for light/dark modes and a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-new-debug-bar-for-laravel-ucjxhtzdb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ucJXhtZdB.png og:image:alt: The New Debug Bar for Laravel og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The New Debug Bar for Laravel **[Benjamin Crozat](https://daily.dev/sources/benjamincrozat)** · 3 min read · 15 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary A new open-source debug bar for Laravel offers a cleaner, redesigned interface compared to the older, dated debug bar, with support for light/dark modes and a draggable, corner-anchored compact bar that expands into a full inspector. It also ships a built-in, local, read-only MCP server so coding agents can inspect the same saved requests as the browser interface instead of relying on screenshots or log searches. The project is still pre-1.0 but usable, free, and open source, with sponsorship and freelance hiring links provided for support. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Is there a Laravel debug bar that AI coding agents can read directly instead of parsing screenshots or logs? Yes, the New Debug Bar for Laravel includes a built-in, local, read-only Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets coding agents inspect the same saved requests shown in the browser interface. This gives an agent exact request context instead of forcing it to guess from a screenshot or search through large log files. The project is free, open source, and still pre-1.0 but usable. _Developers wiring AI agents into their debugging workflow track new MCP-enabled tooling like this on daily.dev._ ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@pdfopsdev** · 2 upvotes > seeing this pattern more and more, chrome devtools protocol has had a headless api for years and now everyone's wrapping their tool's internal state in an mcp server so agents get structured access instead of screenshot parsing. way more reliable than having a model ocr a stack trace off a rendered page. **@agustinbarrientos** · 0 upvotes > Does the local MCP server redact request headers and cookies before exposing a saved request to an agent? ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Laravel Debugbar v4.0.0 is released](https://daily.dev/posts/laravel-debugbar-v4-0-0-is-released-6edql5srw) · Laravel News · 74 upvotes · 5 comments - [PHP DebugBar v3 is released](https://daily.dev/posts/php-debugbar-v3-is-released-b7seeaafe) · Laravel News · 64 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#php](https://daily.dev/tags/php), [#laravel](https://daily.dev/tags/laravel), [#mcp](https://daily.dev/tags/mcp) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-new-debug-bar-for-laravel-ucjxhtzdb) ```json 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