In September 2025, the official PHP SDK for Model Context Protocol was announced as a joint project by PHP Foundation and Symfony. The `mcp/sdk` package provides a framework-agnostic API so a PHP application can act as an MCP server: exposing tools, resources, and prompts to clients like Claude or ChatGPT, and later also operate as an MCP client. This bridges the gap between a traditional web backend and the agentic AI ecosystem without a separate Python service.
AI ingredient recognition by barcode
- Processing sped up from 30 minutes to 2 per batch of 10 images
- Recognition accuracy for composition is 80-95%


