serve-sim is a command-line tool for serving Apple Simulator applications or files over a network, similar to how `npx serve` serves web files. It is used for headless iOS development workflows, and the catalogue entries provide agent instructions and skills for operating it.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to EvanBacon/serve-sim. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EvanBacon/serve-sim/main/.codex/skills/serve-sim-placeholder-assets/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EvanBacon/serve-simWrote this? Show the measurements
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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/evanbacon/serve-sim/serve-sim-placeholder-assets)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/evanbacon/serve-sim/serve-sim-placeholder-assets"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/evanbacon/serve-sim/serve-sim-placeholder-assets/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/evanbacon/serve-sim/serve-sim-placeholder-assets"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/evanbacon/serve-sim/serve-sim-placeholder-assets.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00056 | $0.00203 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00028 | $0.00102 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00041 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00020 |
Grade A, and why
serve-sim-placeholder-assets 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 11d 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.
What it actually says
serve-sim Placeholder Assets
Use this project-scoped skill when updating the not-running device preview images in this repo.
Workflow
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Run the audit script from the repo root:
node .codex/skills/serve-sim-placeholder-assets/scripts/audit-placeholder-assets.mjs --out tmp/device-placeholder-assets -
Keep the public
skills/serve-simskill focused on end-user CLI usage; do not add this internal asset-maintenance workflow there. -
Update app code/tests only after reviewing the audit output for exact, fallback, or missing mappings.
What ships with it
2 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.
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 21 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A bcdb265a9df3
serve-sim-placeholder-assets is a skill published in the GitHub repository EvanBacon/serve-sim (2,775 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 203 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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