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 # laranail/polyglot
 
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+`laranail/polyglot` is not published to Packagist, so there is no registry-version badge to show — see [Install](#install).
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 > A Python bridge for Laravel — call FastAPI/Flask services over HTTP, run scripts in a virtualenv behind a hardened process clamp, and receive HMAC-signed callbacks when long work finishes.
 
 Requires PHP `^8.4.1 || ^8.5` on Laravel `^13`.