argent-ios-simulator-setup

argent-ios-simulator-setup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from software-mansion/argent. It costs 51 tokens per session (232 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A setup guide for finding, booting, and connecting to an iOS simulator. A simulator is a computer-based device environment used to run and test iPhone or iPad apps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding a booted simulator, starting one when needed, obtaining its device identifier, and preparing an iOS testing session.
Why use it?
It ensures an available simulator is ready before other iOS interaction tools are used. This avoids trying to test against a device that is missing or powered off.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

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.

software-mansion/argent · 2,378 stars · on GitHub · argent.swmansion.com

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/software-mansion/argent/argent-ios-simulator-setup
Any agent
npx skills add software-mansion/argent --skill argent-ios-simulator-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/software-mansion/argent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 232 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 5.1 $0.00051 $0.00232
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00116
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00046
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00023

Measured yesterday against content hash 11c2a7ab3f42, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

argent-ios-simulator-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 yesterday.

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.

packages/skills/skills/argent-ios-simulator-setup/SKILL.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

1. Setup Steps

If you delegate simulator tasks to sub-agents, make sure they have MCP permissions.

  1. Find a booted simulator Use list-devices. Filter for entries with platform: "ios" and skip any with kind: "device" (a physical iPhone, never a simulator target): booted simulators are listed first. If none are booted, call boot-device with udid: <chosen UDID>.

  2. Verify connection All interaction tools (gesture-tap, gesture-swipe, gesture-custom, etc.) auto-start the server if not already running.

2. Notes

  • UDIDs look like: A1B2C3D4-E5F6-7890-ABCD-EF1234567890
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. yesterday Changed 11c2a7ab3f42
  2. 6d ago First seen · 20 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 74cc136c8e89

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argent-ios-simulator-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository software-mansion/argent (2,378 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 232 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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