mirrord lets a program running on a developer’s machine behave as though it were running inside a selected pod in a Kubernetes cluster, by routing the pod’s environment, files, network, and traffic to the local process. Developers and AI coding agents use it to build and test against live cluster services without deploying or disrupting other users; the catalogue entries provide instructions for using it.
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.
npx skills add metalbear-co/mirrord --skill mirrord-quickstartgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/metalbear-co/mirrordWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/metalbear-co/mirrord/mirrord-quickstart)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/metalbear-co/mirrord/mirrord-quickstart"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/metalbear-co/mirrord/mirrord-quickstart/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/metalbear-co/mirrord/mirrord-quickstart"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/metalbear-co/mirrord/mirrord-quickstart.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00049 | $0.01259 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00020 | $0.00504 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00252 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00126 |
Grade A, and why
mirrord-quickstart scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 yesterday.
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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
- **Browser extension** — routes requests made from Chrome to the local process, for testing an HTTP-filtered session from a browser instead of `curl`. See [Debugging from Browser](https://metalbear.com/mirrord/docs/usin Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- mirrord-quickstart — 91% identical, 39 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Mirrord Quickstart Skill
Purpose
Help new users get mirrord running quickly:
- Check system requirements
- Install mirrord (CLI, VS Code, or IntelliJ)
- Connect to their first Kubernetes target
- Verify the connection works
Critical First Steps
Step 1: Detect user's environment Ask or detect:
- Operating system (macOS, Linux, Windows)
- Preferred workflow (CLI, VS Code, IntelliJ)
- Do they have kubectl configured?
Step 2: Verify requirements
# Check kubectl access
kubectl cluster-info
kubectl get pods -A | head -5
If kubectl fails, help them configure it first.
Installation Paths
CLI (recommended for getting started)
Do not run remote install scripts that pipe a network download into a shell interpreter. Use only methods your organization approves.
Official guide: Follow mirrord installation documentation for supported options (package managers, pinned release binaries with checksum verification, etc.).
Summary for the agent:
- macOS / Linux: Point the user to the official docs for Homebrew, apt, or pinned binary install steps — do not invent or paste one-liners that fetch and execute remote scripts.
- Windows: Point the user to the official docs for supported installers.
Security: Prefer package managers or manually verified binaries from official release artifacts. Never execute installation by piping downloaded content into a shell.
Verify installation:
mirrord --version
VS Code Extension
- Open VS Code Extensions (Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+X)
- Search "mirrord"
- Install "mirrord" by MetalBear
- Look for mirrord icon in status bar
IntelliJ Plugin
- Open Settings → Plugins → Marketplace
- Search "mirrord"
- Install and restart IDE
- Find mirrord in navigation toolbar
First Session
CLI approach
# List available targets
mirrord ls
# Run a local process with mirrord
mirrord exec --target pod/<pod-name> -- <your-command>
# Example: Node.js app
mirrord exec --target pod/api-server-7c8d9 -- node app.js
# Example: Python app
mirrord exec --target pod/backend-abc123 -- python main.py
What ships with it
1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- yesterday First seen · 142 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 02f12e6af83d
mirrord-quickstart is a skill published in the GitHub repository metalbear-co/mirrord (5,361 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,259 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-09.
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