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    {
      "Title": "screenshot can return a stale frame — actions look like no-ops, and retry-on-no-op causes mis-taps",
      "Excerpt": "### Target type\n\niPhone Mirroring\n\n### Install method\n\nnpx (`claude mcp add --transport stdio mirroir -- npx -y mirroir-mcp`)\n\n### mirroir version\n\nv0.38.2\n\n### macOS version\n\nmacOS 26.5\n\n### Device & OS version\n\niPhone, portrait, mirroring window 326×720\n\n### Screen describer mode\n\nLocal OCR (default)\n\n### MCP client\n\nClaude Code\n\n---\n\n## Summary\n\n`screenshot` frequently returns a **stale frame** — the state from *before* the immediately-preceding action, not after it. A second screenshot a bea",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jfarcand/mirroir-mcp/issues/54",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-29T02:14:26.000Z",
      "State": "open",
      "Comments": 0,
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    {
      "Title": "type_text silently drops all non-Latin (CJK) characters — no clipboard/paste path for typing Chinese/Japanese/Korean",
      "Excerpt": "### Target type\n\niPhone Mirroring\n\n### Install method\n\nnpx (`claude mcp add --transport stdio mirroir -- npx -y mirroir-mcp`)\n\n### mirroir version\n\nv0.38.2\n\n### macOS version\n\nmacOS 26.5\n\n### Device & OS version\n\niPhone, portrait, mirroring window 326×720\n\n### Screen describer mode\n\nLocal OCR (default)\n\n### MCP client\n\nClaude Code\n\n---\n\n## Summary\n\n`type_text` cannot enter any non-Latin (CJK) text. Every Chinese/Japanese/Korean character is silently dropped, so there is currently **no way to typ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jfarcand/mirroir-mcp/issues/53",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-29T02:14:14.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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    {
      "Title": "Gate destructive skill steps behind a confirm",
      "Excerpt": "The mirroir skills include send message, uninstall and batch archive, all real consequence actions on a live iPhone with no client side gate. I am building AgentKey, an auth layer for agent tool calls that allows, blocks or requires approval per tool at the MCP boundary. Would you be open to trying it on one of your skills?",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jfarcand/mirroir-mcp/issues/52",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-24T09:08:29.000Z",
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      "Title": "[Bug]: source build fails to link without embacle-ffi — the canImport(CEmbacle) fallback is unreachable",
      "Excerpt": "### Target type\n\nBuild / install (not a target-specific bug)\n\n### Install method\n\nSource build — `get-mirroir.sh` → `mirroir.sh` (`swift build -c release`), fresh clone of `main` at `7ed7e04`\n\n### mirroir version\n\n0.38.0+ (`7ed7e04`). Note `mirroir --version` reports `version: unknown` on a source build.\n\n### macOS version\n\nmacOS 26.6.1, Apple Silicon (M4 Pro), Xcode command line tools present\n\n### MCP client\n\nn/a — fails before the binary exists\n\n### Bug description\n\nOn a machine without `embac",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jfarcand/mirroir-mcp/issues/38",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-17T18:23:31.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "[Bug]: describe_screen always returns 0 OCR elements — Vision e5rt error reported as \"(no text detected)\"",
      "Excerpt": "# describe_screen returns 0 OCR elements on all screens (silent Vision failure)\n\n**Version:** mirroir-mcp 0.37.0 (npm, native binary from GitHub Releases)\n**OS:** macOS 27.0 (build 26A5388g), Apple Silicon\n**Setup:** `doctor` reports 5/5 passed. Screen Recording + Accessibility granted.\n\n## Summary\n\n`describe_screen` always returns `element_count=0` / \"(no text detected)\", on every screen\ntested, while Apple Vision reads the same content correctly outside of mirroir.\n\nTwo failure timings alterna",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jfarcand/mirroir-mcp/issues/36",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-14T14:38:16.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "tools/list response fails MCP client schema validation (ttlMs/cacheScope) — Claude Code CLI 2.1.228",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\nAfter installing via `npx -y mirroir-mcp install` and registering as a Claude Code MCP server, the server connects successfully but Claude Code's MCP client rejects the `tools/list` response with a schema validation error, so no tools (not even read-only ones) are usable.\n\n## Versions\n- mirroir-mcp: 0.36.0 (npm, latest at time of filing)\n- Claude Code CLI: 2.1.228\n- macOS: 26.5.2, Apple Silicon (M1)\n\n## Steps to reproduce\n```\nnpx -y mirroir-mcp install   # select \"Claude Code\"\nclaude ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jfarcand/mirroir-mcp/issues/35",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-12T02:42:12.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "[Bug]: Long-lived MCP server never recovers from .noWindow after device respring (fresh process sees it fine, only a server restart fixes it)",
      "Excerpt": "## Target type\niPhone Mirroring\n\n## Install method\nHomebrew (`brew install mirroir-mcp`)\n\n## mirroir version\nv0.35.0\n\n## macOS version\nmacOS 26.5.2\n\n## Device & OS version\niPhone 13, iOS 26.5.1\n\n## Screen describer mode\nauto (default). Not relevant to this bug, the failure happens at the connection layer before any describe call.\n\n## MCP client\nClaude Code\n\n## Bug description\n\nA long-lived MCP server process never recovers from a `.noWindow` state after\nthe iPhone resprings (a device language ch",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jfarcand/mirroir-mcp/issues/34",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-22T18:49:05.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "[Bug]: Bug Report: mcp__mirroir__swipe — Horizontal swipes behave inconsistently",
      "Excerpt": "### Target type\n\niPhone Mirroring\n\n### Install method\n\nHomebrew (`brew install mirroir-mcp`)\n\n### mirroir version\n\nv0.33.1\n\n### macOS version\n\nmacOS 26.3\n\n### Device & OS version\n\n_No response_\n\n### Screen describer mode\n\nNone\n\n### MCP client\n\ncc\n\n### Bug description\n\n<h2 style=\"color: rgb(191, 191, 191); font-family: -apple-system, &quot;system-ui&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: norma",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jfarcand/mirroir-mcp/issues/25",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-15T05:52:50.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "[Bug]: Bug Report: describe_screen returns incorrect Y coordinate for non-grid 3-element toolbar rows due to over-eager icon-label offset",
      "Excerpt": "### Target type\n\niPhone Mirroring\n\n### Install method\n\nHomebrew (`brew install mirroir-mcp`)\n\n### mirroir version\n\nv0.33.1\n\n### macOS version\n\nmacOS 26\n\n### Device & OS version\n\niphone11\n\n### Screen describer mode\n\nNone\n\n### MCP client\n\ncc\n\n### Bug description\n\n<img width=\"334\" height=\"735\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5ee83265-068d-40c4-9ef5-619fd4835ba1\" />\n\n\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\n<h2 style=\"color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: -apple-system, &quot;system-u",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jfarcand/mirroir-mcp/issues/24",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-29T08:14:21.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "[Bug]:",
      "Excerpt": "### Target type\n\niPhone Mirroring\n\n### Install method\n\nSource (`swift build`)\n\n### mirroir version\n\nv0.30.0\n\n### macOS version\n\nmac OS 26.3\n\n### Device & OS version\n\niphone 11\n\n### Screen describer mode\n\nNone\n\n### MCP client\n\nCC\n\n### Bug description\n\nEncounter \"Failed to open Spotlight. Is target 'iphone' running?\"\n\nIs it expected? I find out iPhone mirroring works well. But the mirroir mcp shows Failed to open Spotlight. It can send commend line like CMD+3 to iphone and have reply. \n\nFailed to ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jfarcand/mirroir-mcp/issues/23",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-27T04:00:10.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
      "Reporter": "External",
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    {
      "Title": "[Feature]: is there a way to swipe to kill the app",
      "Excerpt": "### Description\n\nI try the swipe to kill the app, it is not working?  The reset app tool is the same.\n\nIs the swipe action not expected or I made something wrong\n\n### Use case\n\n1 open some apps\n2 ask mirrior mcp to kill the app\n\n### Area\n\nInput (tap, swipe, type, etc.)",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jfarcand/mirroir-mcp/issues/22",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-27T03:56:04.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
      "Reporter": "External",
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    {
      "Title": "[Feature]: bottom icon Y axis more than expected",
      "Excerpt": "### Description\n\nI often encounter the issue that when tap the icon at the bottom of the screen. The Y axis is higher than expected. Such as the screenshot. The Y should be 680, but mirroir always click 718, which is at the bottom of the screen.\n\n{\n  \"screenDescriberMode\": \"ocr\",\n  \"ocrBackend\": \"both\",\n  \"agent\": \"embacle\",\n  \"safeBottomMarginPt\": 30,\n  \"iconBottomZoneFraction\": 0.12,\n  \"tapBottomZoneOffset\": 20.0\n}\n\n\n### Use case\n\n**Part 3: Edit and post on TikTok**\n  -> mcp__mirroir__describe",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jfarcand/mirroir-mcp/issues/15",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-31T11:08:51.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
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    {
      "Title": "[Bug]: Copilot CLI not working",
      "Excerpt": "### Target type\n\niPhone Mirroring\n\n### Install method\n\nSource (`swift build`)\n\n### mirroir version\n\n0.30.0\n\n### macOS version\n\n26\n\n### Device & OS version\n\niphone11\n\n### Screen describer mode\n\nvision (embacle)\n\n### MCP client\n\ncc\n\n### Bug description\n\nI try to call github copilot for mirror description. This is the configuration. I find out it not works. I check my copilot output. Here is the error\n\n<system-instructions> You are a UI element detector for iPhone automation. You MUST respond with ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jfarcand/mirroir-mcp/issues/13",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-29T15:40:06.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 3,
      "Reporter": "External",
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      "Title": "[Bug]: describe_screen returns incorrect Y coordinates for bottom navigation bar elements",
      "Excerpt": "### Target type\n\niPhone Mirroring\n\n### Install method\n\nSource (`swift build`)\n\n### mirroir version\n\nv0.30.0\n\n### macOS version\n\nmacOS 26.3\n\n### Device & OS version\n\niphone11\n\n### Screen describer mode\n\nNone\n\n### MCP client\n\nclaude\n\n### Bug description\n\n<p style=\"white-space: pre-wrap; margin-top: 0.1em; margin-bottom: 0.2em; color: rgb(191, 191, 191); font-family: -apple-system, &quot;system-ui&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-lig",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jfarcand/mirroir-mcp/issues/11",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-27T15:31:19.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "describe_screen failed with  Error: Failed to capture/analyze screen. Is the 'iphone' window visible?",
      "Excerpt": "Hi there,\nI do upgrade to the latest version today. The build works fine. It fixed the emblace error. But describe screen seems not working. \n\nuse mirroir mcp, describe the screen                                                                                                                                                            \n                                                                                                                                                                    ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jfarcand/mirroir-mcp/issues/10",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-26T04:09:30.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "The recommend YOLO model for icon detection",
      "Excerpt": "Hi! First off, thank you for building mirroir-mcp — this project is really impressive.\n\nI was reading the README and noticed the part about YOLO CoreML support for icon / UI element detection. I understand that users can provide their own .mlmodelc, but I was wondering whether there is an intended or “known good” model that you use yourself.\n\nThank you very much for your time, and thanks again for sharing this project.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jfarcand/mirroir-mcp/issues/7",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-20T16:30:28.000Z",
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      "Title": "daemon not running",
      "Excerpt": "I just installed v0.21.0 from Homebrew and tried to use it in VS Code.  The screenshot function works fine but when I ask it to tap or scroll the screen I got the following error and the agent stopped working:\n\nHelper daemon not running. Tap, type, and swipe require the helper daemon.\nRun this in your terminal to complete setup:\n  npx iphone-mirroir-mcp setup\nScreenshots and menu actions (Home, Spotlight, App Switcher) still work without it.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jfarcand/mirroir-mcp/issues/3",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-02-26T16:34:28.000Z",
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