mobiai-ios-device

mobiai-ios-device is a skill for Claude Code from ArisGuimera/MobiAI-Core. It costs 30 tokens per session (1,135 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A guide to controlling iOS Simulators with Apple's command-line tools, including starting devices, installing apps, taking screenshots, and reading logs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list, boot, reset, and shut down simulators; install, launch, or remove apps; inspect the accessibility tree; and collect screenshots or logs.
Why use it?
It gives you repeatable commands for testing and investigating an app without relying only on manual interaction with the Simulator window.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the ios plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to list, boot, reset, and shut down simulators; install, launch, or remove apps; inspect the accessibility tree; and collect screenshots or logs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arisguimera/mobiai-core/mobiai-ios-device
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.

Any agent
npx skills add ArisGuimera/MobiAI-Core --skill mobiai-ios-device
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ArisGuimera/MobiAI-Core

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ios, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,135 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00030 $0.01135
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00567
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00227
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00113

Measured 12d ago against content hash 492e61e2f2e7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

mobiai-ios-device scanned grade C 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 12d 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

# Or delete derived data: rm -rf ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData
skills/ios/skills/mobiai-ios-device/SKILL.md · 203 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 203 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

iOS Device Interaction

Community contribution welcome! This skill is a skeleton. If you have iOS development experience, please help flesh it out with battle-tested commands and workflows.

Interact with iOS Simulators using xcrun simctl and related tools.

When to Use

  • Reproducing a bug on an iOS Simulator
  • Taking screenshots or capturing logs
  • Managing Simulators

Simulator Management

List Available Simulators

xcrun simctl list devices available

Boot a Simulator

# Boot by name
xcrun simctl boot "iPhone 15 Pro"

# Boot by UDID
xcrun simctl boot <UDID>

# Open Simulator.app (if you need the GUI)
open -a Simulator

Shut Down

xcrun simctl shutdown <UDID>
xcrun simctl shutdown all  # Shut down all simulators

Erase (reset to clean state)

xcrun simctl erase <UDID>

App Management

Install

xcrun simctl install booted /path/to/MyApp.app

Launch

xcrun simctl launch booted com.example.myapp

Terminate

xcrun simctl terminate booted com.example.myapp

Uninstall

xcrun simctl uninstall booted com.example.myapp

UI Inspection

Accessibility Snapshot

# Get accessibility hierarchy (equivalent to Android's UIAutomator dump)
xcrun simctl spawn booted accessibility_inspector  # Limited CLI support

# Alternative: Use Xcode's Accessibility Inspector GUI
# Or use XCUITest for programmatic UI inspection

Note: iOS doesn't have a direct CLI equivalent to Android's uiautomator dump. For automated UI interaction, consider using:

  • XCUITest for reliable UI automation
  • Accessibility Inspector (GUI) for manual inspection
  • xcrun simctl io booted screenshot combined with vision analysis

Screenshots

xcrun simctl io booted screenshot screenshot.png

Screen Recording

# Start recording
xcrun simctl io booted recordVideo recording.mp4

# Stop with Ctrl+C

Read the full file on GitHub · 203 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. 12d ago First seen · 203 lines · 30 tokens per session scan C 492e61e2f2e7

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mobiai-ios-device is a skill published in the GitHub repository ArisGuimera/MobiAI-Core (453 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,135 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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