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-setupgit 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-setup)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/software-mansion/argent/argent-ios-device-setup"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/software-mansion/argent/argent-ios-device-setup/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/software-mansion/argent/argent-ios-device-setup"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/software-mansion/argent/argent-ios-device-setup.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- Snyk pass
- 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 | $0.00047 | $0.00452 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00019 | $0.00181 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00090 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00045 |
Grade A, and why
argent-ios-device-setup 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 1mo 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
Physical iPhone setup
Read this only for a physical iPhone. Simulators use argent-ios-simulator-setup.
First run
- Cable the phone, unlock it, keep the screen awake, and turn on Developer Mode (Settings > Privacy & Security > Developer Mode).
list-devicesmust show itconnected. launch-apponly registers the app. The firstdescribe, gesture orscreenshotbuilds, signs and starts the on-device runner: minutes cold, tens of seconds from cache or after a tool-server restart. Build cap 15 min, runner ready 120 s.- On the first install the phone asks to trust the developer (Settings > General > VPN & Device Management), and an ArgentRunner app appears on the home screen. Tell the user it is argent's automation runner and must stay installed.
Signing and failures
Signing needs no configuration. The first phone call of a tool-server process carries a note naming the team picked and the ARGENT_IOS_TEAM_ID override (tool-server environment; a change forces a cold rebuild). Cable, lock, trust, expired-profile and missing-certificate errors name their fix: apply it, retry the same call. Also: errSecInternalComponent: run security set-key-partition-list -S apple-tool:,apple:,codesign: -s ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain-db (asks the user's login password), retry. team has no devices: keep the phone cabled, retry. Bundle id registration failed: free-team app-id cap, wait days or sign under a paid team. Any other xcodebuild failure prints raw error: lines: read ~/.argent/ios-device-runner/logs/runner-<udid8>.log. RUNNER_WEDGED: stop-simulator-server for the udid, retry.
Then read argent-ios-device-interact.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 21 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 457ab5e091e9
argent-ios-device-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository software-mansion/argent (3,037 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 452 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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