emulate provides local, stateful replacements for APIs and services so software can run in CI or environments without network access. It is used by developers who need production-like integrations with services such as GitHub, Stripe, AWS, Slack, and databases during testing. Its catalogue skills and instruction support agent workflows that use these local emulators.
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 vercel-labs/emulate --skill nextgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vercel-labs/emulateWrote 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/vercel-labs/emulate/next)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vercel-labs/emulate/next"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vercel-labs/emulate/next/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/vercel-labs/emulate/next"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vercel-labs/emulate/next.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 4 npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
- medium Rogue Agent · line 98 Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 | $0.00133 | $0.01751 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00053 | $0.00700 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00027 | $0.00350 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00175 |
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 29d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 188 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, OPTIONS } = 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` },
})
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.
- 29d ago Changed · +4 lines d4de3fc415a5
- 1mo ago Changed 869931876585
- 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines e0a5cf961f76
- 1mo ago First seen · 182 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A 940557c576c7
next is a skill published in the GitHub repository vercel-labs/emulate (1,947 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 1,751 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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