# metalbear-co/mirrord

Run any process, on your machine or in an AI agent's environment, as if it were a pod in your Kubernetes cluster: real env vars, DNS, network, traffic.

Repository: https://github.com/metalbear-co/mirrord
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/mirrord
Homepage: https://metalbear.com/mirrord
Language: Rust
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: cloud, kubernetes, debug, traffic, api, ide, vscode, cli, development, devtool, developer-tools, rust, backend, devops, cloud-native, agent-skills, ai-agents, ai-coding, claude-code, jetbrains
Last push: 2026-08-26T19:22:43+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 87, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1674, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 8, "gap_med": 2.0, "n_releases_24m": 181}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5278, forks 209 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:14.114764+00:00)

## What it is
mirrord is an open-source tool that lets developers and AI coding agents run local processes as if they were pods in a live Kubernetes cluster, proxying traffic, environment variables, DNS, and files between local code and the cluster. It ships as a CLI, VS Code extension, and IntelliJ plugin, and supports AI agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.

## Use cases
- debug a local microservice against real staging cluster services
- test AI-generated code against real databases and queues without deploying
- run local code with real environment variables and DNS from a Kubernetes pod
- mirror incoming traffic from a cluster pod to my local process
- give Claude Code or Cursor real Kubernetes context while coding
- run integration tests in CI against a shared staging cluster
- create preview environments connected to real cluster dependencies

## When to choose
- you develop microservices that depend on other services in a Kubernetes cluster
- you want fast feedback without building images or deploying to staging
- you use AI coding agents and want them to verify code against real services
- your team shares a staging cluster and you want to avoid disrupting others

## When to avoid
- your services run entirely locally with no Kubernetes dependencies
- you cannot or should not access a live cluster from your dev machine
- you need fully isolated ephemeral environments rather than shared cluster access
- your organization forbids routing production or staging traffic to developer machines

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: developer-tools, deployment, networking, middleware, configuration-management
- domain: developer-tools, cloud-computing, backend
- platform: cli, editor-plugin, rust
- tags: kubernetes, remote-development, debugging, ai-agents, remocal, traffic-mirroring, vscode-extension, intellij-plugin, devops, containers, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- metalbear-co/mirrord (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:14.114764+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:59:17.795389+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/metalbear-co/mirrord (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:14.114764+00:00, sha a2072d16abd6)
  - homepage: https://metalbear.com/mirrord (fetched 2026-08-29T08:54:19.059727+00:00, sha 5ab6103ea51c)
  - site_page: https://metalbear.com/mirrord/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T08:54:19.070847+00:00, sha bf660ff2d083)
  - site_page: https://metalbear.com/mirrord/docs/use-cases/using-mirrord-with-ai (fetched 2026-08-29T08:54:19.072588+00:00, sha 435cb8fa8626)
  - site_page: https://metalbear.com/mirrord/docs/use-cases/local-development (fetched 2026-08-29T08:54:19.074417+00:00, sha 1847389a0037)
  - site_page: https://metalbear.com/mirrord/docs/use-cases/preview-environments (fetched 2026-08-29T08:54:19.076534+00:00, sha 9c0dea83682b)
  - site_page: https://metalbear.com/about (fetched 2026-08-29T08:54:19.078375+00:00, sha 1e821a25e0f1)
  - site_page: https://metalbear.com/mirrord/docs/guides/language-guides/how-to-debug-a-java-microservice (fetched 2026-08-29T08:54:19.080210+00:00, sha 5dcc09285094)
  - site_page: https://metalbear.com/mirrord/docs/guides/language-guides/how-to-debug-a-ruby-microservice (fetched 2026-08-29T08:54:19.082223+00:00, sha dcf4b24f9f93)
  - site_page: https://metalbear.com/mirrord/pricing (fetched 2026-08-29T08:54:19.069030+00:00, sha cc0313010219)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.