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= How Can I Use Stubs from a Location


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If you want to fetch contracts or stubs from a given location without cloning a repository or fetching a JAR, use the `stubs://` protocol when providing the repository root argument for Stub Runner or the Spring Cloud Contract plugin. You can read more about this in xref:../project-features-stubrunner/stub-runner-stubs-protocol.adoc[this section] of the documentation.

