I haven't finished this series yet, but it's worth pointing out that you can add Git hooks to your repository. It's pretty easy and explained at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3462955/putting-git-hooks-into-a-repository.

This is probably overkill if you're working alone, but for teams it's essential. To automate this, when the project is cloned, composer copies a file from the repository to the relevant .git directory, exactly as described at https://stackoverflow.com/a/57334753.

In a large project I'm working on with 4 other developers, commits fail if Laravel Pint fails. Being able to enforce coding standards in this way is very useful and avoids so many bugs (the strict_comparison rule is life saver to be honest).

Automate the Automation