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agent-device MCP Server

Let AI agents inspect, control, and debug real iOS, Android, desktop, and TV apps

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Published as agent-device on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

27 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

iOS physical screenshot fallback calls devicectl with unsupported --device flag

Reproduction

On a connected physical iPhone, invoke:

agent-device screenshot /tmp/test.png --platform ios --device "x iPhone" --json --verbose

Actual

The fallback path logs:

devicectl device screenshot --device 00008150-12345 /tmp/test.png
Error: Unknown option --device
Usage: devicectl device ...

It then falls back to the XCTest runner. In this run the runner could not start because the attached iPhone was locked, but the devicectl invocation itself is invali

Read the thread · 2026-08-12 · closed · external user · 1 comment

Remote daemon rejects gzipped artifact uploads — every install fails with "Invalid tar header … needs to be gunzipped"

Summary

Since roughly 2026-08-10 23:40 UTC, every agent-device install against a remote (EAS-hosted) session daemon fails at the artifact upload:

Error (COMMAND_FAILED): Upload failed: {"ok":false,"error":"Invalid tar header. Maybe the tar is corrupted or it needs to be gunzipped?","code":"UNKNOWN"}

The CLI is fine. The daemon appears to have lost gzip decompression for artifact uploads. It accepts an uncompressed tar of the same bundle, and rejects every gzipped one — which

Read the thread · 2026-08-11 · closed · external user · 2 comments

Remote daemon rejects gzipped artifact uploads — every install fails with "Invalid tar header … needs to be gunzipped"

Summary

Since roughly 2026-08-10 23:40 UTC, every agent-device install against a remote (EAS-hosted) session daemon fails at the artifact upload:

Error (COMMAND_FAILED): Upload failed: {"ok":false,"error":"Invalid tar header. Maybe the tar is corrupted or it needs to be gunzipped?","code":"UNKNOWN"}

The CLI is fine. The daemon appears to have lost gzip decompression for artifact uploads. It accepts an uncompressed tar of the same bundle, and rejects every gzipped one — which

Read the thread · 2026-08-11 · closed · external user · 2 comments

MCP channel ignores ~/.agent-device/config.json defaults (iosXctestrunFile): omitting the param on any tool call triggers the built-in runner build — even while an external-xctestrun runner for the same session is alive

Environment

{
  "iosXctestrunFile": "/Users/<user>/.agent-device/apple-runner/external-manual/Build/Products/AgentDev

[Read the thread](https://github.com/callstack/agent-device/issues/1341) · 2026-07-20 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### MCP: devices and apps return a top-level array as structuredContent, which spec-enforcing MCP clients (e.g. Claude Code) reject — the tools are unusable even though the daemon executes them successfully

## Environment

- **agent-device version:** 0.19.3 (npm, latest at time of writing)
- **Node:** v24.15.0
- **macOS:** Darwin 25.4.0
- **MCP client:** Claude Code, server registered as `agent-device mcp` in `mcpServers`
- **Device:** physical iPhone 14 (also reproduces with no device connected — `devices` fails the same way)

## Description

When agent-device is registered as an MCP server in Claude Code, calling the `devices` or `apps` tools always fails on the client side with a schema validat

[Read the thread](https://github.com/callstack/agent-device/issues/1340) · 2026-07-20 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Most recent

### No clear-field primitive: `fill @ref ""` is rejected and `keyboard` has no delete verb

**Environment.** agent-device 0.20.10 (local npm install, not `npx`), macOS Darwin 25.5, Xcode 26.6,
iOS 26.5 simulator, Node v23.10.0.

**Steps to reproduce.** With a focused, non-empty text field at `@e57`:

```bash
agent-device get attrs @e57      # {"value":"example.com", …}
agent-device fill @e57 ""
agent-device keyboard --help

Observed. Emptying a field is not expressible:

Error (INVALID_ARGS): Expected text to be a non-empty string.
Hint: Check command arguments and run --hel

[Read the thread](https://github.com/callstack/agent-device/issues/2063) · 2026-08-26 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### replay cannot take a path against a remote daemon

## Summary

`replay <path>` resolves the path on the caller. Then it opens the file on the
**daemon**. A remote daemon shares no file system with the caller. So the command
fails with `ENOENT`, on a path the caller can read.

The result: `replay` does not work against a remote daemon.

## Why this matters

We drive a remote EAS Simulator session from a Linux GitHub Actions runner. Our
flow files are in the repository, which the runner checks out. The daemon host has
no copy of that repository.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/callstack/agent-device/issues/1802) · 2026-08-18 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### MCP channel ignores `~/.agent-device/config.json` defaults (`iosXctestrunFile`): omitting the param on any tool call triggers the built-in runner build — even while an external-xctestrun runner for the same session is alive

## Environment

- **agent-device version:** 0.19.3 (npm, latest at time of writing)
- **Node:** v24.15.0
- **macOS:** Darwin 25.4.0; **Xcode:** 26.6 (no Apple ID signed in — external xctestrun per #806, built manually with `CODE_SIGN_STYLE=Manual`)
- **MCP client:** Claude Code, server registered as `agent-device mcp`
- **Device:** physical iPhone 14
- `~/.agent-device/config.json`:

```json
{
  "iosXctestrunFile": "/Users/<user>/.agent-device/apple-runner/external-manual/Build/Products/AgentDev

[Read the thread](https://github.com/callstack/agent-device/issues/1341) · 2026-07-20 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### MCP: devices and apps return a top-level array as structuredContent, which spec-enforcing MCP clients (e.g. Claude Code) reject — the tools are unusable even though the daemon executes them successfully

## Environment

- **agent-device version:** 0.19.3 (npm, latest at time of writing)
- **Node:** v24.15.0
- **macOS:** Darwin 25.4.0
- **MCP client:** Claude Code, server registered as `agent-device mcp` in `mcpServers`
- **Device:** physical iPhone 14 (also reproduces with no device connected — `devices` fails the same way)

## Description

When agent-device is registered as an MCP server in Claude Code, calling the `devices` or `apps` tools always fails on the client side with a schema validat

[Read the thread](https://github.com/callstack/agent-device/issues/1340) · 2026-07-20 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### AccessorySetupKit picker on physical iOS: system-modal snapshot detection is flaky, `alert` is capability-gated — querying `com.apple.AccessorySetupUI` directly works reliably

## Summary

On a physical iPhone, the AccessorySetupKit (ASK) accessory picker — a system sheet hosted out-of-process by `/Applications/AccessorySetupUI.app` — is only intermittently visible to `snapshot` (and therefore to `wait`/selector resolution), and `alert` is refused outright by the CLI capability gate. In the same experiment, querying the hosting process `com.apple.AccessorySetupUI` directly from the runner (without activating it) saw every element reliably and could tap them.

This curr

[Read the thread](https://github.com/callstack/agent-device/issues/1231) · 2026-07-13 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Fix public Apple platform parity in MCP output schemas

## Problem

The MCP output schemas for `boot` and `shutdown` use the internal `PLATFORMS`
enum (`apple | android | linux | web`), while the public command contracts and
runtime emit `PublicPlatform` (`ios | macos | android | linux | web`).
`prepare` has the same schema mismatch, although it is not MCP-exposed.

The current boot schema test checks required keys only, so an `ios` fixture
passes without validating enum membership.

## Scope

- Use the public platform vocabulary in public command ou

[Read the thread](https://github.com/callstack/agent-device/issues/1219) · 2026-07-12 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Fix public Apple platform parity in MCP output schemas

## Problem

The MCP output schemas for `boot` and `shutdown` use the internal `PLATFORMS`
enum (`apple | android | linux | web`), while the public command contracts and
runtime emit `PublicPlatform` (`ios | macos | android | linux | web`).
`prepare` has the same schema mismatch, although it is not MCP-exposed.

The current boot schema test checks required keys only, so an `ios` fixture
passes without validating enum membership.

## Scope

- Use the public platform vocabulary in public command ou

[Read the thread](https://github.com/callstack/agent-device/issues/1219) · 2026-07-12 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

[See all 18 reports Pod holds for agent-device](/mcp/agent-device/issues) — of 27 qualified upstream.

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