Leaf PHP: looking back at 740k installs and our crazy AI plan

Leaf PHP's packages have passed 740,000 combined installs on Packagist since the framework's first release in October 2019. The author traces major turning points to v3, which introduced modules, and v5, an AI-native rebuild with a new route parser, AI-readable docs and a .leaf/CONTEXT.md file, noting installs have roughly doubled since v5 shipped in August. He also says Leaf MVC's share of installs fell from about one in two at the start of 2025 to about one in three today as more projects are started by agents.