xcautokit: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

xcautokit AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from Ezra-Black/xcautokit. It costs 794 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for using XCAutokit, an MCP server that connects coding agents with Xcode and the iOS Simulator. They describe setup, simulator and interface tools, logging tickets, and handling interruptions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when building or testing iOS apps to manage simulator devices, inspect app interfaces, capture logs, record sessions, and route work through the supported Xcode tools.
Why use it?
They provide a consistent way to inspect, run, and troubleshoot iOS projects through Xcode and the simulator without guessing which tools or setup steps apply.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions Cursor.

This is Ezra-Black/xcautokit's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on xcautokit itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything xcautokit configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Ezra-Black/xcautokit. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ezra-Black/xcautokit/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ezra-Black/xcautokit

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Opus 5 $0.00397 $0.00397
Sonnet 5 $0.00159 $0.00159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00079 $0.00079

Measured 7d ago against content hash 9f13104f9587, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

xcautokit AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

AGENTS.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

XCAutokit

XCAutokit is the first-party MCP server for Xcode + iOS Simulator work in this environment. Prefer XCAutokit tools over any third-party Xcode/simulator MCP.

Setup

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "xcautokit": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "xcautokit@latest", "mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Local checkout:

  1. npm install && npm run build:go && npm link
  2. MCP: "command": "xcautokit", "args": ["mcp"] (or .cursor/mcp.local.json)
  3. For live Xcode IDE tools:
    • Install Xcode 26.3+
    • Open your project/workspace in Xcode
    • Xcode → Settings → Intelligence → Model Context Protocol → enable Allow external agents to use Xcode tools
  4. Optional env: XCAUTOKIT_XCODE_BACKEND=auto|on|off, MCP_XCODE_PID

XCAutokit uses xcrun mcpbridge internally when available.

Tickets (modern MCP)

record_start and start_sim_log_cap return a ticket. Pass that ticket to record_stop / stop_sim_log_cap.

Tool routing

Task Tools
Simulator device status, device_list, device_boot, device_shutdown, open_sim
UI inspect ui_summary, ui_describe, ui_find, ui_search, ui_point
UI interrupts ui_check_interrupt, ui_dismiss_interrupt
UI input gesture, tap, swipe, type_text, long_press, button, key_press
Capture screenshot, record_start / record_stop, start_sim_log_cap / stop_sim_log_cap
Project discover_projects, session_set_defaults, list_schemes, build_sim, test_sim, clean
Live Xcode (26.3+) xcode_windows, xcode_issues, xcode_build_log, xcode_preview, docs_search, swift_snippet, run_some_tests

Popups / interrupts (shipped in MCP)

Customers get this without Cursor rules:

  • Initialize instructions — every MCP client receives the interrupt workflow on connect
  • Resource xcautokit://agent-guide and live simulator://interrupts
  • Auto-attachapp_launch / open_url / build_run_sim / launch_app_logs_sim include hasInterrupt + interrupts
  • Input guardtap / swipe / type_text / gesture / keys refuse while a blocking overlay is present (disable with XCAUTOKIT_INTERRUPT_GUARD=off)

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 74 lines · 794 tokens per session scan A 9f13104f9587

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xcautokit AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Ezra-Black/xcautokit (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 794 tokens to every session, about $0.0040 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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