Second phase of the AI feature. Users can now open a slide-in chat drawer from the SiteHeader and ask natural-language questions about their company's invoices, customers, payments, and expenses. The LLM invokes pre-defined read-only tool functions (scoped to the current company at execute time) to fetch data and synthesize answers.
**Database** — new ai_conversations and ai_messages tables. Messages are stored in OpenAI's chat format so AiAssistantService serializes a conversation into an API request with zero translation. Columns: role, content, tool_call_id, tool_calls JSON, model, tokens_in, tokens_out. Conversations are scoped (company_id, user_id) — one user's chats are invisible to everyone else, even inside the same company. Foreign-key cascade deletes.
**Tool infrastructure** — AiTool abstract base + AiToolRegistry singleton (registered in a new AiServiceProvider). The base class enforces the security rule: every tool's execute() receives companyId and userId as injected parameters; tools' JSON schemas NEVER include a company_id field. An LLM physically cannot pass a company_id and escape tenancy. Modules can register their own tools by resolving the registry from their own ServiceProvider::boot().
**Nine built-in tools**: search_invoices, get_invoice, search_customers, get_customer, list_recent_payments, list_overdue_invoices, get_company_stats (aggregates for named periods), search_items, list_expense_categories. All read-only; no mutations. Each returns JSON-encodable data the LLM can parse.
**AiAssistantService orchestration loop** — the heart of Phase 2. Flow: persist user message → build payload from system prompt + recent history (40-message window) + new user message → call driver.chatCompletion with tools → if tool_calls, execute each one via the registry (with injected scope), persist tool result, loop → if plain text, persist and return. Hard cap at 5 iterations to prevent runaway LLMs. System prompt pins the assistant to this company's data and forbids mutation.
**Controllers + policy + rate limit** — POST /api/v1/ai/chat runs the orchestration loop. GET/PATCH/DELETE /api/v1/ai/conversations for CRUD. AiConversationPolicy enforces user_id+company_id match on every action. A new 'ai' RateLimiter in RouteServiceProvider throttles to 30 req/min per (user, company). New 'use ai' Gate defined in AppServiceProvider returns true for any authenticated user — the per-company kill-switch still goes through AiConfigurationService::resolveForCompany.
**Frontend** — new features/company/ai/ folder with a Pinia store (ai-chat.store.ts) holding drawer state, current conversation, messages, and loading flags. AiChatDrawer.vue is a slide-in panel teleported to <body>, mounted globally in CompanyLayout.vue when bootstrap reports ai.enabled && ai.chat_enabled. Sub-components: AiChatMessage (user bubbles vs assistant bubbles), AiChatMessageInput (Enter submits, Shift+Enter newline), AiChatConversationList (sidebar with 'new chat' button, rename, delete). A SparklesIcon button in SiteHeader toggles the drawer.
**Driver test double** — tests use a ScriptedAiDriver registered via AiDriverFactory::register('scripted', ...) that returns pre-queued AiChatResponse objects. Feature tests cover: happy path (new conversation + message persistence), tool-call loop (multi-round-trip with search_invoices), runaway-loop cap, driver-throws path, ai_enabled=NO rejection, chat role disabled rejection, per-user conversation visibility, cross-user policy enforcement, cascade delete.
388 tests pass (was 372, +16 new). Pint clean. npm run build clean. Phase 3 (WYSIWYG text generation popup) is the remaining follow-up.
Foundation for the AI chatbot + text generation feature. Phase 1 is infrastructure only: driver plumbing, configuration storage with encrypted API keys, global vs per-company resolution, admin + company UI pages, and an optional installer wizard step. The chat assistant and text-generation WYSIWYG integration come in later phases.
**Driver plumbing (app/Support/Ai/)** — AiDriver abstract, AiDriverFactory, AiException, AiChatResponse DTO, OpenRouterDriver concrete implementation. OpenRouter is the OpenAI-compatible aggregator that unlocks hundreds of models behind one API key and one request shape — ideal as the default v1 driver. Drivers are extensible the same way exchange rate drivers are: the module Registry's generic registerDriver('ai', ...) machinery plus a typed Registry::registerAiDriver() convenience wrapper (shipped in the upstream invoiceshelf/modules package in a paired commit).
**AiConfigurationService** — mirrors MailConfigurationService shape but with one deliberate deviation: API keys are encrypted at the service layer via Crypt::encryptString before persistence. OpenRouter bearer tokens have much bigger blast radius than SMTP passwords. Same settings / company_settings tables, same global-vs-per-company pattern, same use_custom_ai_config override toggle. Resolution order: global ai_enabled must be YES, then the company either overrides via use_custom_ai_config=YES (and can opt out with ai_enabled=NO inside the override) or inherits the global config.
**Controllers** — Admin/Settings/AiConfigurationController (global CRUD + driver list + test connection), Company/Settings/CompanyAiConfigurationController (per-company override + test), Setup/AiConfigurationController (installer wizard step, skippable with explicit ai_enabled=NO). API key is always masked as '********' in GET responses — the frontend submits the placeholder back on save and the backend preserves the stored value.
**Installer wizard** — new optional step 7 'AI' between Mail and Account. Default OFF with a Skip button. MailView.vue now routes to installation.ai instead of installation.account; installation.ai then routes to installation.account. Step order comment updated in routes.ts.
**Admin + Company settings pages** — AdminAiConfigView (no toggle, always global) and AiConfigView (with use_custom_ai_config BaseSwitchSection that auto-saves OFF). Both share AiConfigurationForm which renders the driver selector, API key input with show/hide, driver-specific config_fields (base_url for OpenRouter), and per-role enable toggles with free-text model inputs backed by a datalist of suggested models from driver metadata.
**Bootstrap endpoint** — adds an ai block to the response: { enabled, chat_enabled, text_generation_enabled }. All three are booleans resolved through AiConfigurationService::resolveForCompany(). Never leaks the API key. Frontend feature flags read from bootstrapData.ai to decide whether to show Phase 2/3 UI.
**Bouncer ability** 'manage ai config' added to SettingsPolicy, gated on isSuperAdmin() (same pattern as manage email config, manage pdf config).
**Tests** (22 new) — Unit: AiDriverFactory resolves built-in + Registry-contributed drivers, rejects unknown, merges availableDrivers. AiConfigurationService: encryption round-trip, resolution order (3 cases: global off, inherit global, override with company key, override with opt-out), makeDriver null/instance cases, listDrivers metadata. Feature: admin save + read with api key masking, preserve-on-placeholder behavior, company toggle ON/OFF semantics, bootstrap ai flags reflect resolution, company opt-out path.
372 tests pass (was 350, +22). Pint clean. npm run build clean. Phase 2 (chat assistant + tool calling) and Phase 3 (WYSIWYG text generation popup) are separate follow-up commits — this one is the foundation only.
Finishes the Support/ consolidation pass: the three remaining root-level files get grouped into purpose-named subdirs, matching the shape the Pdf/, Hashids/, Update/, and Module/ subdirs took in the earlier sweep.
- BouncerDefaultScope → Support/Bouncer/ (Bouncer-specific authorization scope)
- CustomPathGenerator → Support/Media/ (Spatie MediaLibrary path generator — media config references it from config/media-library.php)
- InstallWizardAuth → Support/Setup/ (folded into the existing Setup/ subdir alongside EnvironmentManager, FilePermissionChecker, InstallUtils, RequirementsChecker — it's install-wizard-flow state)
4 consumer files updated (AppServiceProvider, LoginController, UseInstallWizardTokenAuth middleware, config/media-library.php). app/Support/ root is now completely empty of standalone PHP files except helpers.php.
The app/Services/ directory had grown into 22 flat files at the root plus 7 uneven subdirectories — finding anything required scrolling through an alphabetical mix of small CRUD services, infrastructure drivers, and install-time utilities. This commit groups services by domain, folds Backup into a new Storage namespace, and moves framework-infrastructure and install-time helpers out of Services and into Support where they belong.
New Services layout: Documents/ (Invoice, Estimate, RecurringInvoice, Payment, Expense, Transaction, DocumentItem, SerialNumber, Currency — matches the 'Documents' navigation group); Company/ (Company, Member, Invitation); Mail/ (MailConfiguration, CompanyMailConfig); Storage/ (FileDisk, plus Backup folded in). ExchangeRateProviderService moves next to its drivers in ExchangeRate/; FontService moves into Pdf/ where it belongs. CustomerService, ItemService, CustomFieldService stay at the Services root as standalone single-file domains.
Moves to Support/: Hashids/ (library wrapper — not business logic); Setup/ (one-shot install-time utilities — stateless helpers); Pdf/ (ImageUtils, PdfTemplateUtils, plus the existing PdfHtmlSanitizer consolidated into the same subdir). These are all framework infrastructure and stateless utilities — the 'service' label never really fit them.
Namespace declarations in 29 moved files updated to match new paths. 62 consumer files (controllers, other services, tests, database factories, seeders, routes, bootstrap/providers.php) have their use statements rewritten via a literal-string replacement script — no regex meant no risk of half-matching. Three Documents services needed an explicit 'use App\Services\Mail\CompanyMailConfigService' added because the same-namespace short reference they relied on no longer resolves after the split.
Verified: composer dump-autoload, 350 tests pass (850 assertions), vendor/bin/pint clean, npm run build succeeds.
Every main_menu entry moves from numeric group (1/2/3) to string-based group + group_label + priority. Groups now carry their own i18n label and child entries are sorted by an explicit priority field instead of config-array order, so module-contributed menu items can slot into any existing group at any position.
BootstrapController merges module-registered menu items into main_menu (previously they lived in a separate module_menu response key) and introduces a user_menu response key for items modules want to place in the avatar dropdown. The global store follows suit: moduleMenu becomes userMenu, menuGroups is a computed that sorts by priority, and hasActiveModules drops out.
New admin Appearance setting page with a single toggle for whether sidebar group labels render — so instances that prefer a compact sidebar can hide the Documents/Administration/Modules headings without losing the grouping itself. CompanyLayout watches route meta and re-bootstraps when the admin-mode flag flips so the sidebar repaints with the right menu on navigation across the admin boundary.
Test suites updated: module menu merging is asserted against main_menu (name: 'module-{slug}') rather than the old module_menu response; HelloWorldIntegrationTest verifies the schema translation path; CompanyModulesIndexTest covers the display_name attachment.
Remove duplicate configureMediaDisk() from AppServiceProvider — all
FileDisk and media-library config is now in AppConfigProvider's
configureFileSystemFromDatabase().
Replace setConfig() calls with inline config registration everywhere
to avoid mutating filesystems.default, which caused infinite request
loops on the File Disk admin page.
configureMediaDisk() was calling FileDisk::setConfig() which mutates
the global filesystems.default config on every request. This caused
cascading requests on the File Disk admin page.
Now registers the media disk config directly without changing the
global default filesystem.
Spatie Media Library now uses the default FileDisk (local_private) for
new uploads instead of the public disk. Expense receipts are no longer
directly web-accessible.
- AppServiceProvider configures media-library disk from FileDisk on boot
- Change media-library fallback from 'public' to 'local'
- Expense receipt URL accessor returns authenticated route instead of
direct file URL
- Add registerMediaCollections() to Expense model
- Prevent deleting FileDisk that contains files or is a system disk
- Add media:secure command to migrate existing receipts to private disk
Fixes#187
Relocate all 14 files from the catch-all app/Space namespace into proper
locations: data providers to Support/Formatters, installation utilities to
Services/Installation, PDF utils to Services/Pdf, module/update classes to
Services/Module and Services/Update, SiteApi trait to Traits, and helpers
to Support.
Extract ~1,400 lines of business logic from 8 fat models (Invoice, Payment,
Estimate, RecurringInvoice, Company, Customer, Expense, User) into 9 new
service classes with constructor injection. Controllers now depend on
services instead of calling static model methods. Shared item/tax creation
logic consolidated into DocumentItemService.
- Add Administration sidebar section (super-admin only) with Companies, Users, and Global Settings pages
- Add super-admin middleware, controllers, and API routes under /api/v1/super-admin/
- Allow super-admins to manage all companies and users across tenants
- Add user impersonation with short-lived tokens, audit logging, and UI banner
- Move system-level settings (Mail, PDF, Backup, Update, File Disk) from per-company to Administration > Global Settings
- Convert save_pdf_to_disk from CompanySetting to global Setting
- Add per-company mail configuration overrides (optional, falls back to global)
- Add CompanyMailConfigService to apply company mail config before sending emails
* Add utility class for managing templates
* Register custom pdf template views location
* Update the make:template command to make use of PdfTemplateUtils
* Update PDF invoice/estimate template controllers
* Register pdf_templates filesystem disk
* Remove unused leftovers
* Reformat with pint
* Clone estimates
* Clone estimate test feature
* Resolve namespace
* Fix string to int for Carbon
* Fix homes routes and default queue key
* Move dropdown item below View and use the propper translation key
* Convert string references to `::class`
PHP 5.5.9 adds the new static `class` property which provides the fully qualified class name. This is preferred over using strings for class names since the `class` property references are checked by PHP.
* Use Faker methods
Accessing Faker properties was deprecated in Faker 1.14.
* Convert route options to fluent methods
Laravel 8 adopts the tuple syntax for controller actions. Since the old options array is incompatible with this syntax, Shift converted them to use modern, fluent methods.
* Adopt class based routes
* Remove default `app` files
* Shift core files
* Streamline config files
* Set new `ENV` variables
* Default new `bootstrap/app.php`
* Re-register HTTP middleware
* Consolidate service providers
* Re-register service providers
* Re-register routes
* Re-register scheduled commands
* Bump Composer dependencies
* Use `<env>` tags for configuration
`<env>` tags have a lower precedence than system environment variables making it easier to overwrite PHPUnit configuration values in additional environments, such a CI.
Review this blog post for more details on configuration precedence when testing Laravel: https://jasonmccreary.me/articles/laravel-testing-configuration-precedence/
* Adopt anonymous migrations
* Rename `password_resets` table
* Convert `$casts` property to method
* Adopt Laravel type hints
* Mark base controller as `abstract`
* Remove `CreatesApplication` testing trait
* Shift cleanup
* Fix shift first issues
* Updating Rules for laravel 11, sanctum config and pint
* Fix Carbon issue on dashboard
* Temporary fix for tests while migration is issue fixed on laravel side
* Carbon needs numerical values, not strings
* Minimum php version
* Fix domain installation step not fetching the correct company_id
* Fix Role Policy wasn't properly registered
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* Create PHP CS Fixer config and add to CI workflow
* Run php cs fixer on project
* Add newline at end of file
* Update to use PHP CS Fixer v3
* Run v3 config on project
* Run seperate config in CI
