What is use-mobile-device?

A skill for controlling connected iOS and Android devices through mobile-device tools. It uses screenshots and the device's element tree to find and operate controls.

Finding devices, viewing screens, tapping controls, entering text, scrolling, pressing buttons, and running device code.

It gives the coding agent a repeatable way to inspect device screens and confirm whether actions worked.

How srmorete/mobile-device-mcp configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to srmorete/mobile-device-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/srmorete/mobile-device-mcp/main/.claude/skills/use-mobile-device/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/srmorete/mobile-device-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,054 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026

How audits are shown

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00055	$0.01054
Opus 5.5	$0.00022	$0.00422
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00011	$0.00211
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00105

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 8762d6634844, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

use-mobile-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 2mo 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.

.claude/skills/use-mobile-device/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Using mobile devices

You have MCP tools for controlling iOS and Android devices. This skill covers how to use them effectively.

Interaction loop

Call list_devices to get a valid device_id.
Call screenshot to see the current screen.
Call uitree to get elements with coordinates. Use the search param to filter by text.
Act: tap, type_text, scroll, press_button, long_press, double_tap, etc. Use the element's center field as tap coordinates.
Call screenshot to confirm the result.

Repeat 2-5 as needed.

Finding elements

uitree returns elements as JSONL. Each line is a JSON object with these fields (all always present):

Field	Type	Description
`id`	number	Sequential integer starting from 1
`text`	string	Element text (may be empty)
`type`	string	Semantic type: `button`, `input`, `text`, `switch`, `image`, etc.
`bounds`	object	`{left, top, right, bottom}` in screen coordinates
`center`	object	`{x, y}` — center of bounds, ready to use as tap coordinates
`visible`	boolean	Whether the element is within the screen bounds
`clickable`	boolean	Whether the element accepts taps

Use search to filter by text (case-insensitive substring match).
Use limit to cap results when the tree is large.
If the target element is off-screen, scroll to reveal it, then call uitree again.
Use center coordinates for tapping, not visual estimation from screenshots.

Coordinates

Android: pixels.
iOS: logical points (1x scale). Do not multiply by screen scale.

Text input

Tap the target text field first to focus it, then call type_text.

Scrolling

Scroll direction follows finger movement:

Down (reveal content below): startY > endY (finger moves up).
Up (reveal content above): startY < endY (finger moves down).
Use mid-screen X and a Y delta of 300-500.

Buttons

press_button accepts these values: home, back, volumeUp, volumeDown, enter, dpadUp, dpadDown, dpadLeft, dpadRight, dpadCenter. iOS only supports home.

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

examples/run-code-tool.md 4.6 KB

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.

2mo ago First seen · 120 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 8762d6634844

Subscribe to this mod's changes

use-mobile-device is a skill published in the GitHub repository srmorete/mobile-device-mcp (54 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,054 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 2026-08-30.

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use-mobile-device next to 6 skills from other repositories
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use-mobile-devicesrmorete/mobile-device-mcp	Skill	54	3mo ago	MIT	A	55	Claude Code
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mobile-device-mcp: Skill for Claude Code