Argent is a toolkit that lets an AI assistant control and inspect iOS, Android, TV, Electron, and Chromium applications through simulators, emulators, physical devices, or desktop connections. It is for developers who want an agent to interact with interfaces, reproduce issues, test features, debug applications, or run profiling tasks. The catalogue add-ons expose Argent's device-control and development workflows to coding agents.
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.
npx skills add software-mansion/argent --skill argent-ios-device-interactgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/software-mansion/argentWrote 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/software-mansion/argent/argent-ios-device-interact)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/software-mansion/argent/argent-ios-device-interact"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/software-mansion/argent/argent-ios-device-interact.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00059 | $0.00578 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00030 | $0.00289 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00012 | $0.00116 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00058 |
Grade A, and why
argent-ios-device-interact 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 21 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Physical iPhone interaction
Read this only for a physical iPhone. argent-device-interact still applies for everything not listed here.
Contract
- Observation never changes the screen; mutation may.
describeandawait-ui-elementfail on a backgrounded target instead of re-fronting it;await-screen-idlereturnssettled: falsewith no reason. The firstdescribewithin a second ofbutton homecan still return the old tree; describe again. Gestures andkeyboardre-front it and returnreactivated: true; re-describe before the next step. launch-app,open-urlandrestart-appset the app under automation;reinstall-appclears it; a tool-server restart forgets it: launch again.- Each tool's description states its own hardware limits (named keys,
gesture-customshapes, buttons, edge swipes, tap counts). A gated tool fails with a barenot supported on ios device: the fix is in the list below, not in the error.
Tools on hardware
- Only these exist:
list-devices,launch-app,restart-app,reinstall-app,open-url,describe,screenshot,screenshot-diff,gesture-tap,gesture-swipe,gesture-custom,button(home,volumeUp,volumeDown,actionButtonon models that have one),keyboard,await-ui-element,await-screen-idle,run-sequence, the flow tools,stop-simulator-serverandstop-all-simulator-servers(session end). Every other device tool fails withnot supported on ios device. - No two-finger gestures,
rotate,shake,paste,settings-permissions, screen recording,debugger-*,react-profiler-*,native-profiler-*,native-*,boot-device: drive the app's own zoom and rotate UI with taps and drags, move the phone by hand, type withkeyboard, change permissions in the phone's Settings, and debug, profile or record on a simulator. gesture-swipe:durationMssets drag speed, not time;momentum:falseonly rests 300 ms at the end, no damping.open-urlhttps lands in Safari, never in the app that owns the link: passbundleId.
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 21 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 47fd418bf46d
argent-ios-device-interact is a skill published in the GitHub repository software-mansion/argent (2,387 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 578 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 2026-09-03.
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