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botman/tinker
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BotMan tinker command for your Laravel BotMan project

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BotMan Tinker
=============

[](#botman-tinker)

Gives your Laravel chatbot the ability to try your chatbot in your local terminal.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Run `composer require botman/tinker` to install the composer dependencies.

Then in your `config/app.php` add

```
BotMan\Tinker\TinkerServiceProvider::class,
```

to the `providers` array.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

You now have a new Artisan command that helps you to test and develop your chatbot locally:

```
php artisan botman:tinker
```

License
-------

[](#license)

BotMan and Tinker is free software distributed under the terms of the MIT license.

###  Health Score

43

—

FairBetter than 89% of packages

Maintenance19

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity49

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community29

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity64

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 72.4% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~127 days

Recently: every ~214 days

Total

10

Last Release

2228d ago

Major Versions

0.2.0 → 1.0.02017-08-28

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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