What is preflight-ios-mcp?

A local MCP server with 57 tools for controlling an iOS Simulator, which is a computer-based copy of an iPhone or iPad. It can tap, swipe, type, and capture screenshots.

Automating iOS app interactions and taking simulator screenshots through the preflight-ios-mcp package.

It lets an AI-driven workflow perform common simulator actions without manual interaction for every step.

preflight-ios-mcp — MCP server for Claude Code and Codex by EthanAckerman-git: A local MCP server with 57 tools for controlling…

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods

npx agentmods add mcp/ethanackerman-git/preflight/preflight-ios-mcp

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EthanAckerman-git/Preflight

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/mcp/ethanackerman-git/preflight/preflight-ios-mcp.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/mcp/ethanackerman-git/preflight/preflight-ios-mcp)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/mcp/ethanackerman-git/preflight/preflight-ios-mcp"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/mcp/ethanackerman-git/preflight/preflight-ios-mcp.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.

When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.

Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Security

Grade A, and why

preflight-ios-mcp 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 3d 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.

server.json · 10 lines

What it actually says

{
  "preflight-ios-mcp": {
    "command": "npx",
    "args": [
      "-y",
      "preflight-ios-mcp"
    ],
    "env": {}
  }
}

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.

3d ago First seen · 10 lines scan A 73239ece8eb1

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preflight-ios-mcp is an MCP server published in the GitHub repository EthanAckerman-git/Preflight (1 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: an MCP server costs its tool schemas, not its config file. 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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Getting it into your agent

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Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

What it actually says

What this file has done since we first saw it

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