Enterprise-Grade Testing for Humans and Agents

Validate Any Data Resource, API, or Customer Journey With Declarative Tests

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🚀 Rocketship is an open‑source testing framework that can verify complex, user-driven scenarios that are made by your customers— or your systems. Rocketship brings durable execution backed by Temporal to your testing infra, and offers extensible plugins so you can add the APIs and protocols that matter to you.

Define your test scenarios as declarative YAML specs -> and have Rocketship run them locally or in your cloud environment as deterministic workflows.

Core features:

• Rocketship CLI Run the engine locally or connect to a remote address.
• Deploy-Ready Images Need long-running, highly-scalable tests? Or just want to save test history? Host Rocketship on your own infra.
• Declarative YAML Define your test scenarios as declarative YAML specs.
• Durable Execution Need a test step to retry? Or a test to run for 10 hours? No problem!
• Plugin Ecosystem Add the APIs and protocols that matter to you.

Getting Started

Install

brew install temporal # pre-req for if you want to run the local engine

# for arm64 macos
curl -Lo /usr/local/bin/rocketship https://github.com/rocketship-ai/rocketship/releases/latest/download/rocketship-darwin-arm64
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/rocketship

For detailed installation instructions for other platforms and optional aliases, see the Installation Guide.

Save a test spec

cat > rocketship.yaml << 'EOF'
name: "Simple Test Suite"
description: "Showing some of the plugins"
version: "v1.0.0"
vars:
  base_url: "https://tryme.rocketship.sh"
tests:
  - name: "User Workflow with Processing Delay"
    steps:
      - name: "Create a new user"
        plugin: http
        config:
          method: POST
          url: "{{ .vars.base_url }}/users"
          body: |
            {
              "name": "Nick Martin",
              "email": "nick@rocketship.sh"
            }
        assertions:
          - type: status_code
            expected: 200
          - type: json_path
            path: ".name"
            expected: "Nick Martin"
        save:
          - json_path: ".id"
            as: "user_id"

      - name: "Wait for user processing"
        plugin: delay
        config:
          duration: "2s"

      - name: "Validate user creation with script"
        plugin: script
        config:
          language: javascript
          script: |
            function main() {
              const userId = state.user_id;

              // Simulate some business logic validation
              if (!userId || userId === "") {
                throw new Error("User ID is missing or empty");
              }

              return {
                validation_status: "passed",
                user_ready: true,
                message: `User ${userId} is ready for operations`
              };
            }

            main();
EOF

Run it

rocketship run -af rocketship.yaml # starts the local engine, runs the tests, shuts the engine down

The examples use a hosted test server at tryme.rocketship.sh that you can use:

• Test CRUD operations for a resource type
• Resources are isolated based off a session header
• FYI: Resource cleanup is done hourly (every :00)

Try the MCP Server

Rocketship includes an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that enables AI coding agents like Cursor, Windsurf, or Claude Code write better Rocketship tests by providing examples, patterns, and guidance.

Quick Setup

For Claude Code:

Add to the .mcp.json file in your project:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rocketship": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@rocketshipai/mcp-server@latest"]
    }
  }
}

Head to the Rocketship MCP Server Docs to see how to add it for Cursor, Windsurf, and more.

What Can It Do?

The MCP server acts as a knowledgeable assistant, providing:

• get_rocketship_examples - Get examples and best practices for specific Rocketship features
• suggest_test_structure - Returns test templates with TODOs for you to implement
• get_assertion_patterns - Shows assertion examples for different testing scenarios
• get_plugin_config - Provides configuration examples for Rocketship plugins
• validate_and_suggest - Reviews your YAML and suggests improvements
• get_cli_commands - Provides CLI usage examples and best practices

Example Usage

Ask your coding agent for guidance:

• "Show me examples of API testing with step chaining"
• "What assertions should I use for JSON responses?"
• "How do I configure the Supabase plugin?"
• "Give me a template for an E2E customer journey test"

The agent will ask the MCP server for relevant examples and patterns, then help you create tests based on that guidance. You maintain full control over what gets written to your files.

Documentation

https://docs.rocketship.sh

Roadmap

Building the next-gen of integration testing for humans and AI agents. Suggestions and issues are welcomed! Here's what's coming in weeks, not years:

• Parameterized Tests & Scripting Parameterize your tests with environment variables, secrets, and scripted steps.
• AI Agent Integration MCP support for AI agents to automatically generate, run, and maintain integration tests based on code changes.
• LLM Browser Testing A plugin powered by Browser Use for browser-based testing.
• Test and Suite-Wide Config Schedule tests on a cadence, add retryability, and more.
• More Native Plugins Native plugin support for secret managers, databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB), message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ), file systems (S3, GCS), and more.

Contribute!!!

I would love to build this with you! I'm looking to start a community for 🚀. Reach out to me on LinkedIn and let's chat. A great first contribution is building a plugin for your favorite API. If you want to contribute to Rocketship, start by reading Contributing to Rocketship.

License

Rocketship is distributed under the MIT license.