What is app-automate?

A mobile testing workflow for running Appium, Espresso, or XCUITest suites on real phones through BrowserStack App Automate. Appium is a tool for controlling apps during tests; Espresso and XCUITest are platform-specific mobile testing tools.

It helps run uploaded Android or iOS test suites, inspect failures, and find likely causes from logs.

It lets developers test mobile apps on real devices and investigate failures using test and device evidence.

app-automate — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by browserstack

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 browserstack/mcp-server --skill app-automate

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/browserstack/mcp-server

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/browserstack/mcp-server/app-automate/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/browserstack/mcp-server/app-automate)

Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,308 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin unknown 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00081	$0.01308
Opus 5.5	$0.00032	$0.00523
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00016	$0.00262
Haiku 4.5	$0.00008	$0.00131

Measured 7d ago against content hash 182e49e90dfd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

app-automate scanned grade A 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 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

1. Upload the app and the test suite first. `help-asset-upload` with `asset_type` `espresso-app` and `espresso-test-suite` (or the `xcuitest-` pair) returns curl commands the user runs in their own shell. Each returns a

integrations/kiro-power/skills/app-automate/SKILL.md · 87 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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.

7d ago First seen · 87 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 182e49e90dfd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

app-automate is a skill published in the GitHub repository browserstack/mcp-server (154 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 1,308 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-31.

E2E testing Mobile Testing accessibility automation browserstack mcp-server quality-assurance

app-automate next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
app-automatebrowserstack/mcp-server	Skill	154	yesterday	AGPL-3.0	A	81	Claude Code, Codex
flutter-mcp-toolkit-controlArenukvern/mcp_flutter	Skill	395	20d ago	MIT	A	38	Claude Code
flutter-mcp-e2e-harnessArenukvern/mcp_flutter	Skill	395	20d ago	MIT	A	117	Claude Code
flutter-mcp-cli-runtime-validationArenukvern/mcp_flutter	Skill	395	20d ago	MIT	A	52	Claude Code
mobiloop-mobile-qaenessubass/mobiloop-mcp	Skill	12	22d ago	MIT	A	60	Codex
kilotest-overviewjrpool/kilotest	Skill	5	today	MIT	A	85	Claude Code, Codex
xcforgejustinthevoid/xcforge	Skill	2	27d ago	MIT	A	140	Claude Code, Codex

app-automate

Getting it into your agent

Wrote this? Show the measurements

What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Makes network callslowCapability

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

What this file has done since we first saw it

app-automate compared with skills from other repositories