Metalbear Co Skills

Help users set up mirrord in CI pipelines for testing against real Kubernetes environments. Use when users want to run end-to-end tests, integration tests, or automated tests in CI using mirrord to connect to staging/shared clusters.

Helps users run multiple concurrent mirrord sessions from a single mirrord-up.yaml (compose-style multi-service local debugging). Use when the user mentions mirrord up, mirrord-up.yaml, mirrord up init, debugging several related microservices together, or managing multiple mirrord sessions' lifecycle in one command.

Help users chaos test their app with mirrord: inject artificial latency or connection errors into a mirrord session's outgoing traffic via per-session chaos rules managed with the `mirrord chaos` CLI. Use when a user wants to add latency or delay to outgoing connections or a dependency (e.g. a slow database), simulate connection failures (reset, timed out, refused), test app behavior under degraded network conditions, or wire chaos rules into CI test runs. Always use this skill instead of the deprecated _experimental_.latency mirrord config option.

Helps DevOps engineers configure mirrord Operator's Kafka queue splitting feature end-to-end. Generates the MirrordSplitConfig and MirrordPropertyList Kubernetes CRD YAMLs (the current resources; MirrordKafkaTopicsConsumer + MirrordKafkaClientConfig are deprecated but still supported), the matching mirrord.json split_queues section with message_filter and jq_filter, and Helm value guidance. Use this skill whenever the user mentions Kafka splitting with mirrord, MirrordSplitConfig, MirrordPropertyList, MirrordKafkaClientConfig, MirrordKafkaTopicsConsumer, Kafka queue/topic splitting, configuring mirrord with Kafka, Kafka Streams splitting, MSK IAM auth, or troubleshooting Kafka splitting sessions. Also trigger on split_queues with queue_type Kafka, or connecting mirrord to a Kafka cluster. This is a Team/Enterprise feature of mirrord.

Helps users generate, edit, and validate mirrord.json configuration files for mirrord (MetalBear). Use when the user wants to connect their local process to a Kubernetes environment, configure features (env/fs/network), or needs feedback on an existing mirrord.json. Always ensures output JSON is valid and schema-conformant.

Help users install and configure the mirrord Operator for team/enterprise environments. Use when users ask about operator setup, Helm installation, cloud API key or license configuration, air-gapped/offline licensing, enabling features (queue splitting, DB branching, preview environments, multi-cluster), internal registries, OpenShift/GKE Autopilot, RBAC, or multi-user mirrord deployments.

Help users create and manage mirrord preview environments — running a modified service as an isolated pod in a shared Kubernetes cluster, scoped by an environment key and HTTP/queue traffic filtering, so teams can validate and review changes against real traffic without affecting live services. Use when a developer wants to run "mirrord preview" ad hoc, share a preview via a link (mirrord-share-ingress), or wire preview environments into CI with the metalbear-co/mirrord-preview GitHub Action (e.g. per-PR previews, least-privilege cluster access).

Helps DevOps engineers configure mirrord Operator's Temporal task queue splitting feature end-to-end. Generates the MirrordSplitConfig and MirrordPropertyList Kubernetes CRD YAMLs, the matching mirrord.json split_queues section with message_filter and jq_filter, and Helm value guidance. Use this skill whenever the user mentions Temporal splitting with mirrord, Temporal task queue splitting, splitting a Temporal worker, configuring mirrord with Temporal or Temporal Cloud, routing Temporal workflow or activity tasks to a local worker, or troubleshooting Temporal splitting sessions. Also trigger on split_queues with queue_type Temporal, or connecting mirrord to a Temporal frontend. This is an alpha Team/Enterprise feature of mirrord.

Guide users from zero to their first working mirrord session. Use when a user is new to mirrord, wants to install it, or needs help running their first session connecting to a Kubernetes cluster.

Helps users configure mirrord.json for database branching, enabling isolated database copies for safe development and testing. Use when the user wants to set up MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB, ClickHouse, Google Spanner, or generic branches, configure copy modes, connection sources, schema migrations, IAM authentication, or manage database branches.