Scout Extended is the official Algolia Laravel integration that builds on top of Laravel Scout, providing access to all its features and leveraging Algolia's search experience. It offers direct access to configuring Algolia settings through Artisan commands, support for aggregators to centralize site-wide search across multiple models, full reindexing without downtime, extended search builder, status overviews, and more. The integration also improves the search builder with new methods like where and whereBetween, providing a beautiful overview of application indexes with the scout:status command. Scout Extended is 100% open source, allowing users to dig into its code and contribute improvements through pull requests on GitHub.