Recipes
Recipes
Recipes combine mocks, templates, flags, data blocks, and proxying into complete behaviors you can copy into your project. Each one is a working mock file plus a walkthrough of the moving parts.
Stateful CRUD
A complete create, read, update, and delete API backed by flags.
List and Detail From Data
Serve a collection and a detail endpoint with 404s from one data block.
Append to a List
Accept submissions with POST and return the accumulated list with GET.
Mock One Edge Case
Proxy normal traffic to the real backend while mocking one branch.
Simulate Slow or Unstable APIs
Add latency and random failures in front of an otherwise healthy API.
Polling Status Flow
Return changing statuses for async jobs, exports, and polling UIs.
Debug Broken JSON
Track down trailing commas, empty values, and other template bugs.
Mock Microservices by Host
Stand in for several services with one instance using host blocks.
Validate Mocks in CI
Gate pull requests with mocko validate and ship mocks as an image.
The recipes assume you know the basics from the Creating Mocks section, but each page links back to the concepts it uses, so it is safe to jump straight to the one that matches your problem. They also work well as prompts: with the Mocko skill installed, you can point a coding agent at a recipe and ask for a version adapted to your API.