ios-device-toolkit

ios-device-toolkit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alleneubank/claude-code. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,383 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

A toolkit for controlling a physical iPhone or iPad connected to a computer over USB. It uses pymobiledevice3, a command-line tool for inspecting devices and working with apps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Taking screenshots, reading system logs, collecting crash reports, installing or launching apps, transferring files, monitoring performance, and forwarding network ports.
Why use it?
It gathers device information, logs, crash reports, and performance data without requiring separate manual tools. It also helps developers test and debug apps on real devices.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/alleneubank/claude-code/ios-device-toolkit
Any agent
npx skills add alleneubank/claude-code --skill ios-device-toolkit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alleneubank/claude-code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,383 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00056 $0.01383
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00691
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00277
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00138

Measured 4d ago against content hash a4aea1a0b435, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

ios-device-toolkit scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 4d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo pymobiledevice3 remote tunneld
.claude/skills/ios-device-toolkit/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

iOS Device Toolkit

Drive a physical iOS device over USB with pymobiledevice3. This skill covers the high-value workflows; deep reference per area is in references/.

  • Capture, logs, crashes → references/capture.md
  • Apps, app sandbox files, AFC media, debugserver → references/apps-files.md
  • Device info, perf, springboard, webinspector, tunneling → references/diagnostics-perf.md

Install

# uv (preferred) or pipx
uv tool install pymobiledevice3
pipx install pymobiledevice3

pymobiledevice3 version   # confirm; tested at 7.0.7

Prerequisites

  1. Physical iOS device attached via USB (or Wi-Fi-paired through usbmuxd).
  2. Developer Mode enabled on device (Settings → Privacy & Security → Developer Mode). Verify with pymobiledevice3 mounter query-developer-mode-status.
  3. Trusted computer — accept "Trust This Computer" prompt on the device after first connect.
  4. iOS 17+ only: a long-running tunneld daemon is required for any developer-mode service (screenshots, DVT instruments, debugserver, pcap-with-process, etc.). Start it once per boot:
    sudo pymobiledevice3 remote tunneld
    
    The CLI auto-retries developer commands through tunneld; you no longer need --tunnel "" on every call in 7.x, though it still works.

Device selection

For a single attached device, no flag is needed. For multiple, scope every call with one of:

  • --udid <UDID> — usbmux-discovered device
  • --tunnel <UDID> — tunneld-discovered device (developer services on iOS 17+)
  • PYMOBILEDEVICE3_UDID=<UDID> / PYMOBILEDEVICE3_TUNNEL=<UDID> env vars — set once, all subsequent invocations inherit

Discover UDIDs:

pymobiledevice3 usbmux list             # USB + Wi-Fi devices known to usbmuxd
xcrun devicectl list devices            # Apple's own listing (macOS)
pymobiledevice3 lockdown info | head    # full lockdown dump for the default device

Caveat: --tunnel "" (empty string) prompts interactively. In non-interactive shells, pass the UDID directly.

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 4d ago First seen · 113 lines · 56 tokens per session scan B a4aea1a0b435

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ios-device-toolkit is a skill published in the GitHub repository alleneubank/claude-code (52 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,383 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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