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title: Stateful Scenarios
shortTitle: Stateful Scenarios
description: Model multi-step, stateful API behaviour in MockServer - state-machine scenarios, sequential / cycling responses, timed and externally-triggered transitions, and cross-protocol correlation - with runnable examples for every client.
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<h2>Related Pages</h2>

<ul>
    <li><a href="/mock_server/response_templates.html">Response Templates</a> &mdash; read captured scenario state back into a dynamic response with the <span class="inline_code">scenario</span> helper (capture &rarr; template value reuse)</li>
    <li><a href="/mock_server/verification.html">Verify Requests</a> &mdash; assert the requests your code under test sent at each step of a scenario</li>
    <li><a href="/mock_server/llm_response_mocking.html">LLM Response Mocking</a> &mdash; use scenarios to script multi-turn AI agent conversations</li>
</ul>