next

An adapter that runs local service emulators inside a Next.js application, including GitHub and Google-style services. It exposes emulator requests through a Next.js route on the same website origin.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to embed emulated services in a Next.js App Router app, create a catch-all emulator route, seed test users and repositories, and test same-origin OAuth or authentication flows.
Why use it?
It makes OAuth and integration tests easier for preview deployments, where the website address can change between deployments. Developers can test against seeded local data without calling live services.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/vercel-labs/emulate/next
Any agent
npx skills add vercel-labs/emulate --skill next
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vercel-labs/emulate

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 133 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,645 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00133 $0.01645
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.00822
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00329
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00164

Measured today against content hash e0a5cf961f76, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

next 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 today.

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.

skills/next/SKILL.md · 184 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 184 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Next.js Integration

The @emulators/adapter-next package embeds emulators directly into a Next.js App Router app, running them on the same origin. This is particularly useful for Vercel preview deployments where OAuth callback URLs change with every deployment.

Install

npm install @emulators/adapter-next @emulators/github @emulators/google

Only install the emulators you need. Each @emulators/* package is published independently, keeping serverless bundles small.

Route Handler

Create a catch-all route that serves emulator traffic:

// app/emulate/[...path]/route.ts
import { createEmulateHandler } from '@emulators/adapter-next'
import * as github from '@emulators/github'
import * as google from '@emulators/google'

export const { GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE } = createEmulateHandler({
  services: {
    github: {
      emulator: github,
      seed: {
        users: [{ login: 'octocat', name: 'The Octocat' }],
        repos: [{ owner: 'octocat', name: 'hello-world', auto_init: true }],
      },
    },
    google: {
      emulator: google,
      seed: {
        users: [{ email: '[email protected]', name: 'Test User' }],
      },
    },
  },
})

This creates the following routes:

  • /emulate/github/** serves the GitHub emulator
  • /emulate/google/** serves the Google emulator

GitHub installation-token metadata is available server-side at /emulate/github/_emulate/installation-tokens.

Auth.js / NextAuth Configuration

Point your provider at the emulator paths on the same origin:

import GitHub from 'next-auth/providers/github'

const baseUrl = process.env.VERCEL_URL
  ? `https://${process.env.VERCEL_URL}`
  : 'http://localhost:3000'

GitHub({
  clientId: 'any-value',
  clientSecret: 'any-value',
  authorization: { url: `${baseUrl}/emulate/github/login/oauth/authorize` },
  token: { url: `${baseUrl}/emulate/github/login/oauth/access_token` },
  userinfo: { url: `${baseUrl}/emulate/github/user` },
})

Read the full file on GitHub · 184 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. today Changed · +2 lines e0a5cf961f76
  2. 3d ago First seen · 182 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A 940557c576c7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

next is a skill published in the GitHub repository vercel-labs/emulate (1,621 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 1,645 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.

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