mockd copilot-instructions.md

Project instructions for GitHub Copilot that explain how this project uses mockd, a mock server for imitating external services during development. They also describe mockd's MCP server and its available commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Setting up and using mockd for HTTP, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSocket, MQTT, SSE, and SOAP testing, including creating mocks and checking how they were called.
Why use it?
They give Copilot the project-specific information needed to work with test API responses, request checks, simulated failures, and server settings.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/getmockd/mockd/copilot-instructions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/getmockd/mockd

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Per session 1,033 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,033 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.01033 $0.01033
Opus 5 $0.00517 $0.00517
Sonnet 5 $0.00207 $0.00207
Haiku 4.5 $0.00103 $0.00103

Measured 2d ago against content hash cca88df57819, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mockd copilot-instructions.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

mockd Instructions for GitHub Copilot

Copy this to .github/copilot-instructions.md in your project root.

mockd Mock Server

This project uses mockd for API mocking. mockd is a multi-protocol mock server supporting HTTP, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSocket, MQTT, SSE, and SOAP from a single binary.

MCP Server

mockd includes an MCP server with 18 tools. Configure in .github/copilot-mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mockd": {
      "command": "mockd",
      "args": ["mcp"]
    }
  }
}

MCP tools available:

  • manage_mock — Create, list, get, update, delete, or toggle mocks
  • manage_context — Get server context for current workspace
  • manage_workspace — Switch between named workspaces
  • verify_mock — Assert a mock was called N times
  • get_mock_invocations — See what requests hit a mock
  • reset_verification — Clear verification counters
  • set_chaos_config — Inject latency, errors, chaos profiles, stateful faults
  • get_chaos_config — View current chaos configuration
  • reset_chaos_stats — Reset chaos counters
  • get_stateful_faults — View circuit breaker / retry-after / degradation state
  • manage_circuit_breaker — Trip or reset circuit breakers
  • get_request_logs — View captured traffic
  • clear_request_logs — Clear request log history
  • manage_state — CRUD operations on stateful resources
  • manage_custom_operation — Manage custom operations for stateful resources
  • import_mocks — Import from OpenAPI, Postman, HAR, WireMock, cURL, WSDL, Mockoon
  • export_mocks — Export mocks as YAML/JSON
  • get_server_status — Check server health and version

Ports

  • Mock server: 4280 (not 8080)
  • Admin API: 4290 (not 8081)

CLI Commands

mockd start                          # Start daemon
mockd start -c mocks.yaml            # Start with config
mockd stop                           # Stop daemon
mockd engine start                   # Headless engine for CI
mockd add http --path /api/users --status 200 --body '{"data":[]}'
mockd add http --path /api/users --stateful   # Auto CRUD
mockd list                           # List mocks
mockd logs --requests                # View traffic
mockd verify check <id> --exactly 3  # Assert call count
mockd chaos apply flaky              # Inject errors
mockd chaos disable                  # Stop chaos
mockd import openapi.yaml            # Import specs
mockd export --format yaml           # Export config

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 117 lines · 1,033 tokens per session scan A cca88df57819

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mockd copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository getmockd/mockd (144 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,033 tokens to every session, about $0.0052 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.