Crustum is a growing family of CakePHP plugins that extend the framework for real application work: queues, notifications, broadcasting, OAuth, search, scheduling, AI tooling, and more. Each package follows CakePHP conventions so it drops into your app without fighting the framework.
The name comes from Latin crustum — “cake” or “pastry” — a nod to CakePHP. That same Latin thread runs through many plugin names: short, memorable labels for focused tools.
The catalog keeps expanding. All plugins are documented under crustum.github.io/docs.
- Ai — Unified API for AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Azure, Bedrock, Groq, xAI, DeepSeek, Mistral, Ollama, OpenRouter) with agents, tools, sub-agents, structured output, images, audio, embeddings, streaming and queued runs
- Essentia (essentia — essence) — Agent-optimized compact output for PHPUnit, PHPStan, and related tools
- Ignis (ignis — fire) — AI guidelines, agent skills, and CakePHP development tooling
- Mcp — Model Context Protocol servers and tools for CakePHP
- OpenRouter — Typed LLM access via OpenRouter
- Explorator (explorator — explorer) — Driver-based full-text search for Tables and Entities (database, Algolia, Meilisearch, Typesense)
- DevConsole — Single-terminal local dev runner (server + Vite, queue workers, log TUI)
- Inspector (inspector — examiner) — Package and stack detection for CakePHP projects
- JsonSchema — Fluent JSON Schema builder for PHP
- Prompts — Interactive CLI prompts for CakePHP Console
- PluginManifest — Publish and install plugin assets the same way every time
- Audit — Diagnoses configuration, environment, and infrastructure problems before they reach users
- Rhythm — Real-time application performance monitoring (requests, queries, queues, cache, exceptions) with live dashboard
- Speculum (speculum — mirror) — Debug insight into requests, queries, jobs, mail, and more
- Stimulus — Serve CakePHP on FrankenPHP, RoadRunner, Swoole / Open Swoole with long-lived workers
- Notification — Multi-channel delivery (mail, database, broadcast, Slack, Telegram, and more)
- NotificationUI — Notification bell / center UI with live updates
- BroadcastingNotification — Broadcasting channel for Notification
- RocketChatNotification — Rocket.Chat channel for Notification
- SevenNotification — Seven.io SMS channel for Notification
- SlackNotification — Slack channel for Notification
- TelegramNotification — Telegram channel for Notification
- JsonField — JSON column as nested-entity store with per-path types, SQL filtering, and atomic updates (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite)
- BatchQueue — Batch, chain, and coordinate jobs on CakePHP Queue (parallel, sequential, sagas)
- Queue — Dispatchable job helpers on top of cakephp/queue
- Scheduling — Fluent task scheduling with cron-style APIs
- Temporal — Durable, distributed workflow orchestration
- BlazeCast — Self-hosted WebSocket server (Pusher protocol)
- Broadcasting — Real-time event broadcasting with multiple drivers
- MercureBroadcasting — Mercure SSE broadcaster driver for Broadcasting
- Meta — Fluent document-head management (title, meta, Open Graph, canonical, robots, structured data)
- Saloon — Saloon v4 HTTP client integration for CakePHP 5
- Tessera (tessera — token / mosaic tile) — OAuth2 server for CakePHP
Browse everything under github.com/crustum and the docs.
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