ios-simulator

ios-simulator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from TalissonVitorino/kmp-ios-skills. It costs 254 tokens per session (4,591 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Command-line procedures for controlling Apple device simulators with Xcode's simctl tool. A simulator is a software version of an iPhone, iPad, watch, or TV used for development and testing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, boot, reset, and remove simulated devices; install and launch apps; set permissions and locations; send push notifications; open links; capture screenshots and video; and inspect logs.
Why use it?
It makes repeatable setup and device actions possible from scripts or CI, without requiring the Simulator app's graphical interface. It also clarifies which tasks require separate UI-testing tools or real hardware.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create, boot, reset, and remove simulated devices; install and launch apps; set permissions and locations; send push notifications; open links; capture screenshots and video; and inspect logs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/talissonvitorino/kmp-ios-skills/ios-simulator
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.

Any agent
npx skills add TalissonVitorino/kmp-ios-skills --skill ios-simulator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TalissonVitorino/kmp-ios-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 254 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,591 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 5 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 3
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 239
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 240
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 245
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 289
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00254 $0.04591
Opus 5 $0.00127 $0.02295
Sonnet 5 $0.00051 $0.00918
Haiku 4.5 $0.00025 $0.00459

Measured 11d ago against content hash f2b69d5c28e7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ios-simulator 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.

ios/ios-simulator/SKILL.md · 290 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 290 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

iOS Simulator (xcrun simctl)

Command-line control of the iOS/iPadOS/watchOS/tvOS Simulator for scripting, CI, and local fixtures. Everything routes through simctl; the Simulator.app GUI is optional. Targets Xcode 16/17, iOS 26 era.

  • Device counterpart: hardware-backed features (camera, Secure Enclave, App Attest) do not work in the Simulator — see Simulator vs. real device and cross-reference device-integrity / swift-security.
  • UI-test driving (tap/type/assert) is XCUITest's job, not simctl — see ios-testing. simctl sets up state around the test (permissions, push, media, location).

Contents

Device identity & booted

Every device has a UDID. Most subcommands take a device specifier: a UDID, a device name, or the literal booted (the single currently-booted device — errors if zero or more than one is booted).

xcrun simctl list devices           # all devices, grouped by runtime; shows (Booted)
xcrun simctl list devices booted     # only booted ones
xcrun simctl list devices available -j   # JSON; filter to installed runtimes only
xcrun simctl list runtimes           # installed iOS/watchOS/… runtimes + identifiers
xcrun simctl list devicetypes        # e.g. com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimDeviceType.iPhone-16-Pro
  • Parse JSON (-j / --json), never scrape the human table, in scripts. devices JSON keys each list by runtime identifier; each entry has udid, name, state, isAvailable.
  • Resolve one UDID in a script:

Read the full file on GitHub · 290 lines

Files

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.

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. 11d ago First seen · 290 lines · 254 tokens per session scan A f2b69d5c28e7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ios-simulator is a skill published in the GitHub repository TalissonVitorino/kmp-ios-skills (12 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 254 tokens to every session and 4,591 once invoked, about $0.0013 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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