Agent Skills for mirrord

Install the mirrord skills plugin to give AI coding assistants like Cursor and Claude Code domain-specific knowledge of how to work with mirrord.

MetalBear maintains a mirrord skills plugin that extends AI coding assistants, such as Cursor and Claude Code with domain-specific knowledge about mirrord. Instead of relying solely on general instructions in AGENTS.md, these skills give your AI assistant built-in expertise for mirrord configuration, troubleshooting, and best practices.

See the mirrord agent skills plugin in action

What Are mirrord Skills?

Skills are reusable instruction modules that teach AI agents how to work with mirrord. When you install the mirrord skills plugin, your AI assistant can:

• Generate and validate mirrord.json configuration files
• Guide you through installation and your first mirrord session
• Help set up mirrord in CI pipelines
• Configure the mirrord operator for team environments
• Help set up database branching for your cluster
• Configure queue splitting for Kafka topics
• Create preview environments, ad hoc or per-PR in CI
• Chaos test your app with per-session latency and connection-error rules

Available Skills

For the full list of skills, what each one covers, and example prompts, see mirrord Agent Skills in the metalbear-co/skills repository.

Installing the mirrord Skills

The mirrord skills are distributed as a plugin that you install into your AI coding assistant. Installation steps depend on your tool.

Check the mirrord skills repository for the latest installation instructions...

Agents That Don't Support Agent Skills

GitHub Copilot and Cline read repository rules files instead of Agent Skills. The skills repository ships drop-in equivalents carrying the same core content in its ports directory: copy ports/github-copilot/copilot-instructions.md into your repository's .github/ folder, or ports/cline/.clinerules into the repository root.