AutoMobile MCP Server

Mobile device interaction automation via MCP

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Published as @kaeawc/auto-mobile on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

457 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: Implement ScreenCaptureKit simulator window capture

Overview

Create screen capture for iOS Simulator using macOS ScreenCaptureKit API. This captures the simulator window and streams raw frames to the MCP server.

Prerequisites

#1034 ✅ iOS research complete
iOS device capture helper (for shared frame protocol)

Background

ScreenCaptureKit (macOS 12.3+) provides low-latency window capture, making it ideal for capturing iOS Simulator windows.

See iOS Screen Streaming Design Doc for details.

Read the thread · 2026-01-30 · closed · 6 comments

feat(voiceover): support VoiceOver Magic Tap (two-finger double-tap)

Part of #3916 (seamless navigation whether or not a screen reader is enabled).

Summary

The iOS VoiceOver Magic Tap — the two-finger double-tap that triggers an app's primary/context action (answer/end a call, play/pause media, start/stop recording, etc.) — is not supported. There is no requestMagicTap command on the iOS CtrlProxy client or in the runner protocol.

Reference

Parity design doc Gap 5: docs/design-docs/mcp/a11y/voiceover-talkback-parity.md:84-92.
No `requestMagicT

Read the thread · 2026-07-18 · open · 3 comments

fix(ios): SDK in-app hierarchy (:8766) merged into observes of unrelated foreground apps — ~2.5MB hierarchies

Summary

When an iOS app embedding the AutoMobile SDK is running (its in-app hierarchy server bound on port 8766), the SDK hierarchy gets merged into every observe — including observes whose foreground app is a different, non-SDK app. The result is a ~2.5 MB / ~4000-node view hierarchy returned for a screen that should be small (e.g. iOS Settings), an ~80× size blowup. Terminating the SDK app drops the same observe back to ~71 KB.

This is both a correctness concern (hie

Read the thread · 2026-06-25 · closed · 3 comments

feat(ios): AXBridge — invoke custom accessibility actions

Summary

Enable invoking UIAccessibilityCustomAction on iOS Simulator elements via the macOS AX bridge. This is the primary motivation for AXBridge — XCUITest has no API for this.

Verified Behavior

Custom actions appear inline in an element's action list with the format:

Name:<action_name>\nTarget:0x0\nSelector:(null)

Invoking works via AXUIElementPerformAction(element, actionName) — just the action name string, no need for the full Name:...\nTarget:... format.

Proof o

Read the thread · 2026-05-21 · open · 3 comments

Bug: launchApp not correctly observing app state after launch

Description

The launchApp MCP tool is not correctly returning the app state observation after launching an app, causing AI agents to make redundant observe calls immediately after launch.

Current Behavior

When launchApp is called, it successfully launches the app but the observation data returned may be stale, incomplete, or not reflecting the actual app state. This causes AI agents (like Claude) to immediately follow up with an explicit observe call to get the current screen st

Read the thread · 2026-01-09 · closed · 3 comments

Most recent

bug(mcp): enabled dynamic tool can remain absent from host discovery

Summary

A successful setToolEnabled call can leave a default-off tool unavailable to the host's callable tool catalog. In the observed run, openLink remained absent after it was enabled, discovery was refreshed, and the MCP connection was re-established.

Reproduction

Connect an MCP client to AutoMobile and establish an active device/routing session.
Call setToolEnabled with { "toolName": "openLink", "enabled": true, "sessionUuid": "<active session>" }.
Confirm that the

Read the thread · 2026-08-30 · closed · 0 comments

feat: intentionally crash a target app for resilience testing

Summary

Add an explicit AutoMobile capability to intentionally crash a specified target application. This should create a genuine application crash suitable for exercising crash detection, diagnostic capture, recovery, and resilience-test flows.

Why

Force-stopping an app is not equivalent to a crash: it bypasses the OS crash path and may not produce the logs, reports, or lifecycle signals that consumers need to validate. Test authors need a deterministic way to cause a real crash withou

Read the thread · 2026-08-30 · closed · 0 comments

listDeviceImages tool omits capabilityInventory for iOS while the devices/images/ios resource includes it

Summary

#5782 added a versioned capabilityInventory to device-image responses. It is present on the automobile:devices/images/ios resource but missing from the listDeviceImages tool response for iOS. Android has it in both, so the tool/resource pair disagree only on iOS.

A caller that discovers images through the tool (the documented listDevices → listDeviceImages → getApple flow) cannot see iOS capabilities at all.

Repro

Tool — iOS has none:

bun dist/src/i

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kaeawc/auto-mobile/issues/5965) · 2026-08-30 · closed · 0 comments

### tapOn effect.screenChanged false-negatives on Android in-app navigation (post-tap observation captured before the transition settles)

## Summary

`tapOn` reports `effect.screenChanged: false` for taps that demonstrably navigate to a new activity on Android. The `effect` field shipped in #5943 is meant to tell a client whether a tap did anything; today it produces a false negative for ordinary in-app navigation, which makes it unsafe to branch on.

iOS is unaffected — it takes the `viewHierarchy` hash path and reports correctly.

## Repro (API 31, `am-api31-ga-arm64`)

```bash
bun dist/src/index.js --cli homeScreen --platform a

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kaeawc/auto-mobile/issues/5964) · 2026-08-30 · closed · 0 comments

### Orphaned Android CtrlProxy adb forwards (tcp:<port> → tcp:8765) are never reconciled and removal failures are swallowed

## Summary

Host-side `adb forward tcp:<port> → tcp:8765` entries created for the Android **CtrlProxy** transport are never reconciled. Their only removal path is `AndroidCtrlProxyClient.close()` (and the pre-setup remove inside `setupPortForwarding`), both of which run `adb forward --remove` **best-effort and swallow every failure**. There is no daemon-level GC/sweep for these entries — in direct contrast to the video path, which got exactly this treatment in #4753 (`sweepOrphanForwards` / `rec

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kaeawc/auto-mobile/issues/5962) · 2026-08-30 · closed · 1 comment

### tool-output resource leaks filesystem error detail (host path) to client (CWE-209)

Follow-up from PR https://github.com/kaeawc/auto-mobile/pull/5926 (issue #5917).

## Problem

The `automobile:tool-output/{artifactId}` resource returns the raw filesystem failure detail to the MCP client in its error message (CWE-209, information disclosure).

In `src/server/toolOutputResources.ts`, the read-failure path passes the underlying error string as `detail` to `notAvailable(...)`, which appends it to the client-facing message:

```ts
// line ~143
} catch (error) {
  const reason = err

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kaeawc/auto-mobile/issues/5933) · 2026-08-30 · closed · 0 comments

### Soak: kqueue fd leaks 1/30s for daemon lifetime (worker-per-health-check); AVD stops booting after 145 start/kill cycles

Weekend soak / leak hunt, 2026-08-30 03:06–07:30 UTC, on `39ba23f29` (local build, macOS 24.6.0, bun 1.3.14). Driver cycled `getAndroid` → `setActiveDevice` → `observe` ×3 → `homeScreen` → `killDevice` on `am-api30-ga-arm64` while a second loop cycled daemon connect/disconnect every 15s, sampling daemon RSS/fd/socket counts and orphan PIDs every 2 minutes.

**174 cycles run. 145 succeeded; every cycle from #146 on failed.** Two distinct defects fell out.

---

## 1. Unbounded kqueue fd leak — on

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kaeawc/auto-mobile/issues/5930) · 2026-08-30 · closed · 0 comments

[See all 24 reports Pod holds for AutoMobile](/mcp/automobile/issues) — of 457 qualified upstream.

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