GCP emulator
GCP emulator definition for local Google Cloud, AI agent, and LocalCloud workflows, with examples, caveats, and related resources.
- Can be official, third-party, custom, or a local facade.
- Usually requires SDK endpoint overrides.
Glossary routes
Agentic local cloud glossary
Precise terms help agents avoid unsafe assumptions. These definitions keep LocalCloud positioned as a local development, CI, and demo runtime with real-GCP validation before production.
Published routes
Indexable pages with caveats
AI agent sandbox
AI agent sandbox definition for local Google Cloud, AI agent, and LocalCloud workflows, with examples, caveats, and related resources.
- LocalCloud is a GCP API sandbox, not a universal shell sandbox.
- Hosted sandboxes and LocalCloud can be complementary.
MCP server
MCP server definition for local Google Cloud, AI agent, and LocalCloud workflows, with examples, caveats, and related resources.
- LocalCloud exposes its runtime-owned MCP server at the canonical /mcp endpoint.
- Use the localcloud mcp stdio bridge when an MCP client cannot connect with Streamable HTTP.
Agentic CI
Agentic CI definition for local Google Cloud, AI agent, and LocalCloud workflows, with examples, caveats, and related resources.
- LocalCloud jobs should fail closed on missing health or env vars.
- Do not mix local emulator checks with deployment secrets.
Credentialless cloud development
Credentialless cloud development definition for local Google Cloud, AI agent, and LocalCloud workflows, with examples, caveats, and related resources.
- Useful for inner-loop tests and demos.
- Not a replacement for production authorization tests.
BigQuery emulator
BigQuery emulator definition for local Google Cloud, AI agent, and LocalCloud workflows, with examples, caveats, and related resources.
- Coverage varies by emulator.
- Use real BigQuery for full production semantics.
Service emulator
Service emulator definition for local Google Cloud, AI agent, and LocalCloud workflows, with examples, caveats, and related resources.
- Emulators trade managed-cloud behavior for speed and safety.
- Document supported and unsupported calls.
Localhost cloud API
Localhost cloud API definition for local Google Cloud, AI agent, and LocalCloud workflows, with examples, caveats, and related resources.
- Environment variables are the usual routing mechanism.
- Unset overrides before real-cloud validation.
Agent environment
Agent environment definition for local Google Cloud, AI agent, and LocalCloud workflows, with examples, caveats, and related resources.
- An agent environment has two halves: an execution boundary and a dependency boundary.
- Code sandboxes such as E2B, Modal, or Docker sandboxes provide the execution boundary.
Agent sandbox vs cloud emulator
Agent sandbox vs cloud emulator definition for local Google Cloud, AI agent, and LocalCloud workflows, with examples, caveats, and related resources.
- A sandbox with real cloud credentials can still create real cloud resources and real charges.
- An emulator without a sandbox still lets generated shell commands touch the host.
Credentialless agent testing
Credentialless agent testing definition for local Google Cloud, AI agent, and LocalCloud workflows, with examples, caveats, and related resources.
- Removes the blast radius of an agent calling a destructive cloud API.
- Does not remove the need to validate the same code against real Google Cloud before release.
Local cloud API surface
Local cloud API surface definition for local Google Cloud, AI agent, and LocalCloud workflows, with examples, caveats, and related resources.
- Measure a local runtime by its operation-level surface, not by a service count.
- LocalCloud publishes per-operation status on each service page and the compatibility matrix.
Sandboxed cloud SDK
Sandboxed cloud SDK definition for local Google Cloud, AI agent, and LocalCloud workflows, with examples, caveats, and related resources.
- Routing is normally done with emulator environment variables loaded into the process.
- Some clients ignore those variables and need explicit endpoint configuration.
Cloud emulator
Cloud emulator definition for local Google Cloud, AI agent, and LocalCloud workflows, with examples, caveats, and related resources.
- In this documentation, cloud emulator always means an emulator of cloud service APIs.
- Emulators trade managed-cloud fidelity for speed, isolation, and zero cloud cost.