xcodebuildmcp

A local tool server that lets a coding agent work with Xcode projects, iOS Simulators, and app utilities. Xcode is Apple's software for building apps for its platforms.

In plain words
What is it for?
Managing Xcode projects, controlling iOS Simulators, running UI automation, and working with debugging and logging workflows.
Why use it?
It gives the agent a defined way to manage and inspect iOS development work without relying only on manual Xcode actions.

MCP server for Claude CodeCodexCursorGemini CLIOpenCode

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/pingdotgg/t3code/xcodebuildmcp
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode.

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

xcodebuildmcp 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 2d 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.

.mcp.json · 13 lines

What it actually says

{
  "xcodebuildmcp": {
    "command": "npx",
    "args": [
      "--yes",
      "[email protected]",
      "mcp"
    ],
    "env": {
      "XCODEBUILDMCP_ENABLED_WORKFLOWS": "simulator,ui-automation,debugging,logging"
    }
  }
}
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. 2d ago First seen · 13 lines scan A f8bc15ced4d8

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xcodebuildmcp is an MCP server published in the GitHub repository pingdotgg/t3code (21,041 stars, last pushed 2d 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 2026-08-30.