Stancl Tenancy v3 — Multi-Tenant Laravel

Comprehensive agent skill for building multi-tenant SaaS applications with stancl/tenancy v3 (^3.9). Covers the full package API surface, real-world production patterns, and critical gotchas.

What this skill covers

• Package architecture — central vs tenant contexts, automatic/manual tenancy modes, tenant model patterns
• Tenant identification — InitializeTenancyByDomain, InitializeTenancyBySubdomain, InitializeTenancyByPath, InitializeTenancyByRequestData middleware with custom $onFail handling
• Data isolation — multi-database (per-tenant databases) and single-database (BelongsToTenant, BelongsToPrimaryModel, HasScopedValidationRules, unique index scoping, withoutTenancy())
• Bootstrappers — database, cache, filesystem, queue, Redis bootstrappers + patterns for custom bootstrappers
• Features — TenantConfig (per-tenant Laravel config), UserImpersonation, TelescopeTags, UniversalRoutes
• Event system — full lifecycle events with JobPipeline for sequential job execution
• Console commands — tenants:migrate, tenants:seed, tenants:rollback, tenants:list, tenants:run with --tenants=<id> filtering
• Production patterns — queue isolation strategies (tenant-specific queues, priority queues, dedicated workers), idempotent provisioning, deployment-scale migrations, Horizon job tagging, Scout Meilisearch index scoping, Spatie package integration, Livewire tenant routing
• Testing — fast transaction-based testing (25x speed improvement), Event::fake() caveats, event faking for isolation
• Critical gotchas — queued events + SerializesModels trap (never pass tenant-scoped models), DatabaseBatchRepository stale connection fix, bootstrapper prefix accumulation in long-running processes

Common patterns

// Tenant model with domains and databases
class Tenant extends BaseTenant implements TenantWithDatabase
{
    use HasDatabase, HasDomains;

    public function getCustomColumns(): array
    {
        return ['id', 'name', 'plan_id', 'status'];
    }
}

// Event-driven tenant lifecycle
Event::listen(TenantCreated::class, JobPipeline::make([
    CreateDatabase::class,
    MigrateDatabase::class,
    SeedDatabase::class,
])->send(fn ($event) => $event->tenant)->toListener());

// Manual tenancy control
$tenant->run(fn () => User::create([...]));
tenancy()->initialize($tenant);
tenancy()->end();

// Custom bootstrapper
class ScoutTenancyBootstrapper implements TenancyBootstrapper
{
    public function bootstrap(Tenant $tenant): void { /* scope Meilisearch */ }
    public function revert(): void { /* restore central config */ }
}

// Single-database scoping
class Post extends Model { use BelongsToTenant; }
class Comment extends Model { use BelongsToPrimaryModel; }

Critical Gotchas

Queued events + SerializesModels: Never pass tenant-scoped models in queued payloads. BelongsToTenant's global scope fires before QueueTenancyBootstrapper restores context. Pass scalars (tenantId, modelId) and call tenancy()->initialize() in handle().

DatabaseBatchRepository: DB::purge('tenant') between jobs nulls the PDO. Use houlokmah/tenancy-batch-fix for batched jobs across tenants.

Prefix accumulation: Cache/Redis/filesystem bootstrappers can accumulate prefixes across tenant switches in long-running processes (Horizon, Octane). Always test after multiple cycles.

For full patterns including queue isolation strategies, transaction-based testing (25x speed), and provisioning safety, see references/production-patterns.md in the skill source.

Installation

OpenClaw

clawhub install tenancy-development

Direct repo/manual install

git clone https://github.com/Xyntax01/tenancy-development.git
cp -R tenancy-development ~/.claude/skills/tenancy-development

Optional Third-Party Installer

npm exec --package=skills@1.5.7 -- skills add agentskillexchange/skills --skill tenancy-development -a claude-code

Documentation Links

• Official docs: https://tenancyforlaravel.com/docs/v3/
• Upstream repo: https://github.com/stancl/tenancy
• Skill source: https://github.com/Xyntax01/tenancy-development