# Symfony AI Spotlight: Mate, an Agent's Way into Your Runtime

DevFeed: [Symfony AI Spotlight: Mate, an Agent's Way into Your Runtime](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/symfony-ai-spotlight-mate-an-agent-s-way-into-your-runtime-17398.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://symfony.com/blog/symfony-ai-spotlight-mate-an-agent-s-way-into-your-runtime>)

Author: Wachter Johannes

Published: 2026-09-14T07:47:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Symfony Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/symfony-blog.md>)

Topics: [Symfony](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/symfony.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>), [MCP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mcp.md>)

Tags: [agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [cli](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cli.md>), [mcp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mcp.md>), [symfony](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/symfony.md>)

## AI overview

Mate gives coding agents direct access to runtime information from Symfony applications, including profiler records, logs, and the dependency-injection container. In Symfony AI 0.13, it is a CLI with a discovery layer rather than a separately running MCP server, and it reads artifacts already written to disk instead of reconstructing behavior from source code.

## Source excerpt

An agent working on a Symfony project can read every line of your source code and still not know what actually happened on the last request: which query was slow, or what the profiler already recorded five minutes ago, before anyone thought to ask. Source...