Installation

Requirements, setup, and environment configuration for Prompt Deck.

Requirements

Prompt Deck has the following requirements:

Dependency	Version
PHP	^8.2
Laravel	^11.0 ++

The sebastian/diff package is required and is used for the prompt:diff command. It may conflict with your PHPUnit/Pest PHP installation so you may need to upgrade these dependencies to the latest version.

Optional dependencies

Package	Purpose
laravel/ai	Enables deep integration with Laravel AI SDK agents to support automatic instructions loading, prompt version tracking in conversations, and auto-scaffolding prompts when creating agents.

Installing Prompt Deck

Install the package via Composer:

composer require veeqtoh/prompt-deck

The package uses Laravel’s auto-discovery, so the service provider and facade are registered automatically. No manual registration is needed.

If you have disabled auto-discovery, add the provider and facade to your bootstrap/providers.php (Laravel 11+) or config/app.php:

// bootstrap/providers.php (Laravel 11+)
return [
    // ...
    Veeqtoh\PromptDeck\Providers\PromptDeckServiceProvider::class,
];

Or for config/app.php:

'providers' => [
    // ...
    Veeqtoh\PromptDeck\Providers\PromptDeckServiceProvider::class,
],

'aliases' => [
    // ...
    'PromptDeck' => Veeqtoh\PromptDeck\Facades\PromptDeck::class,
],

Publishing the configuration

Publish the configuration file to customise Prompt Deck’s behaviour:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=prompt-deck-config

This creates config/prompt-deck.php in your application. See the Configuration documentation for a full reference of all available options.

Publishing migrations

If you plan to use database tracking for prompt versions and execution logging, publish and run the migrations:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=prompt-deck-migrations
php artisan migrate

This creates two tables:

Table	Purpose
prompt_versions	Stores prompt version records and tracks which version is active.
prompt_executions	Logs individual prompt executions with tokens, latency, cost, and feedback data.

Database tracking is optional. Prompt Deck works fully without it as version activation falls back to metadata.json files, and execution tracking is simply disabled.

If you prefer, you may publish both the configuration and migration files by running a single command:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Veeqtoh\PromptDeck\Providers\PromptDeckServiceProvider"

Environment variables

Add the following to your .env file to configure Prompt Deck’s runtime behaviour:

# Cache
PROMPTDECK_CACHE_ENABLED=true          # Enable/disable prompt caching (default: true in production, false when APP_DEBUG=true)
PROMPTDECK_CACHE_STORE=file            # Cache store to use (file, redis, memcached, etc.)
PROMPTDECK_CACHE_TTL=3600              # Cache time-to-live in seconds
PROMPTDECK_CACHE_PREFIX=prompt-deck:   # Cache key prefix

# Database Tracking
PROMPTDECK_TRACKING_ENABLED=true       # Enable/disable database tracking (default: true in production, false when APP_DEBUG=true)
PROMPTDECK_DB_CONNECTION=              # Database connection name (null for default)

# AI SDK Integration
PROMPTDECK_SCAFFOLD_ON_MAKE_AGENT=true # Auto-create prompt when running make:agent

All environment variables are optional as sensible defaults are provided.

Verifying the installation

After installation, verify everything is working:

# Create your first prompt
php artisan make:prompt hello-world

# List all prompts
php artisan prompt:list

# Test the prompt
php artisan prompt:test hello-world

You should see the scaffolded prompt structure in resources/prompts/hello-world/.

What’s next?

Configuration

Customise Prompt Deck’s behaviour.

Creating prompts

Learn the full make:prompt command.

Working with prompts

Load, render, and manage prompts in your code.

Laravel AI SDK

Use prompts with AI agents.