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 vercelgit 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/vercel)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vercel-labs/emulate/vercel"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vercel-labs/emulate/vercel/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/vercel"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vercel-labs/emulate/vercel.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 5 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 MCP Rug Pull · line 15 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 Data Exfiltration · line 64 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 65 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 139 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 | $0.00141 | $0.04991 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00056 | $0.01996 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00028 | $0.00998 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00014 | $0.00499 |
Grade A, and why
vercel 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 9d 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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
allowed-tools: Bash(npx emulate:*), Bash(curl:*) Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- vercel — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 510 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Vercel API Emulator
Fully stateful Vercel REST API emulation with Vercel-style JSON responses and cursor-based pagination.
Start
Local listeners bind to 127.0.0.1 by default. For access from containers or other machines, pass --host 0.0.0.0 to the CLI or hostname: '0.0.0.0' to createEmulator. Configure --base-url or baseUrl for advertised URLs reachable by those clients.
# Vercel only
npx emulate --service vercel
# Default port
# http://localhost:4000
Or programmatically:
import { createEmulator } from 'emulate'
const vercel = await createEmulator({ service: 'vercel', port: 4000 })
// vercel.url === 'http://localhost:4000'
Auth
Pass tokens as Authorization: Bearer <token>. All endpoints accept teamId or slug query params for team scoping.
curl http://localhost:4000/v2/user \
-H "Authorization: Bearer test_token_admin"
Team-scoped requests resolve the account from the teamId or slug query parameter. User-scoped requests resolve the account from the authenticated user.
Pointing Your App at the Emulator
Environment Variable
VERCEL_EMULATOR_URL=http://localhost:4000
Vercel SDK / Custom Fetch
const VERCEL_API = process.env.VERCEL_EMULATOR_URL ?? 'https://api.vercel.com'
const res = await fetch(`${VERCEL_API}/v10/projects`, {
headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${token}` },
})
OAuth URL Mapping
| Real Vercel URL | Emulator URL |
|---|---|
https://vercel.com/integrations/oauth/authorize |
$VERCEL_EMULATOR_URL/oauth/authorize |
https://api.vercel.com/login/oauth/token |
$VERCEL_EMULATOR_URL/login/oauth/token |
https://api.vercel.com/login/oauth/userinfo |
$VERCEL_EMULATOR_URL/login/oauth/userinfo |
Auth.js / NextAuth.js
{
id: 'vercel',
name: 'Vercel',
type: 'oauth',
authorization: {
url: `${process.env.VERCEL_EMULATOR_URL}/oauth/authorize`,
},
token: {
url: `${process.env.VERCEL_EMULATOR_URL}/login/oauth/token`,
},
userinfo: {
url: `${process.env.VERCEL_EMULATOR_URL}/login/oauth/userinfo`,
},
clientId: process.env.VERCEL_CLIENT_ID,
clientSecret: process.env.VERCEL_CLIENT_SECRET,
profile(profile) {
return {
id: profile.sub,
name: profile.name,
email: profile.email,
image: profile.picture,
}
},
}
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.
- 9d ago Changed · +18 lines dcb2f7903ef5
- 21d ago Changed · +2 lines 56735beb0e76
- 29d ago Changed · +4 lines a0bc1d43151a
- 1mo ago Changed 4676f435744c
- 1mo ago Changed · +4 lines 6d086b9129ff
- 1mo ago First seen · 482 lines · 141 tokens per session scan A e3d33dace1ba
vercel is a skill published in the GitHub repository vercel-labs/emulate (1,947 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 141 tokens to every session and 4,991 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.
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