Seed all the new posts (94 across four categories)

  php artisan blog:seed-json --new-only

  --new-only skips any slug that already exists in blog_posts. Only the 94 new ones get inserted.

  Or one category at a time

  php artisan blog:seed-json --new-only --category=architecture     # 23 posts
  php artisan blog:seed-json --new-only --category=development      # 25 posts
  php artisan blog:seed-json --new-only --category=devops           # 23 posts
  php artisan blog:seed-json --new-only --category=infrastructure   # 23 posts

  Dry-run first (recommended)

  php artisan blog:seed-json --new-only --dry-run

  Prints Would seed: <slug> for each candidate without writing. Expect 94 lines. If you see anything else, stop and investigate before
  running for real.

  Expected output

  After the live run:

  Posts: 94 created, 0 updated, X skipped

  Where X ≈ 344 (the existing posts that --new-only filtered out).

  Useful flags reference

  ┌──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
  │             Flag             │                                Purpose                                │
  ├──────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ --new-only                   │ Skip slugs already in DB (what you want)                              │
  ├──────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ --category=<slug>            │ Limit to one category directory                                       │
  ├──────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ --published-after=2026-08-02 │ Limit by date (all new posts are 2026-08-02 or later)                 │
  ├──────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ --dry-run                    │ Preview without writing                                               │
  ├──────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ --nullify-images             │ Set featured_image_path = null if images aren't on this env's CDN yet │
  └──────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

  If featured_image_path URLs point at images that don't exist in this environment yet, you'll see a warning at the end of the run. Either
   upload the images (numbers 345–438) to https://scopeforged.com/storage/blog/posts/{n}-{slug}.webp, or add --nullify-images to clear the
   paths and upload later.