agent-device

A tool for controlling Apple devices and Android devices, including apps on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac, and Android.

In plain words
What is it for?
Opening app sessions, viewing screens, taking snapshots, tapping, typing, scrolling, and extracting visible interface information.
Why use it?
It helps an agent inspect and operate device interfaces instead of relying only on code or descriptions.

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/callstackincubator/agent-skills/agent-device
Any agent
npx skills add callstackincubator/agent-skills --skill agent-device
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/callstackincubator/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,046 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00053 $0.01046
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00523
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00209
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00105

Measured 3d ago against content hash 2a0dd294991e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-device 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.

plugins/vendored/.agents/skills/agent-device/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

agent-device

Use this skill as a router with mandatory defaults. Read this file first. For normal device tasks, always load references/bootstrap-install.md and references/exploration.md before acting. Use bootstrap to confirm or establish deterministic setup. Use exploration for UI inspection, interaction, and verification once the app session is open.

Default operating rules

  • Start conservative. Prefer read-only inspection before mutating the UI.
  • Use plain snapshot when the task is to verify what text or structure is currently visible on screen.
  • Use snapshot -i only when you need interactive refs such as @e3 for a requested action or targeted query.
  • Avoid speculative mutations. You may take the smallest reversible UI action needed to unblock inspection or complete the requested task, such as dismissing a popup, closing an alert, or clearing an unintended surface.
  • Do not browse the web or use external sources unless the user explicitly asks.
  • Re-snapshot after meaningful UI changes instead of reusing stale refs.
  • Prefer @ref or selector targeting over raw coordinates.
  • Ensure the correct target is pinned and an app session is open before interacting.
  • Keep the loop short: open -> inspect/act -> verify if needed -> close.

Default flow

  1. Load references/bootstrap-install.md and references/exploration.md before acting on a normal device task.
  2. Use bootstrap first to confirm or establish the correct target, app install, and open app session.
  3. Once the app session is open and stable, use exploration for inspection, interaction, and verification.
  4. Start with plain snapshot if the goal is to read or verify what is visible.
  5. Escalate to snapshot -i only if you need refs for interactive exploration or a requested action.
  6. Use get, is, or find before mutating the UI when a read-only command can answer the question.
  7. End by capturing proof if needed, then close.

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 3d ago First seen · 65 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 2a0dd294991e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-device is a skill published in the GitHub repository callstackincubator/agent-skills (1,633 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,046 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. 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.

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