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    {
      "Title": "Static audit of mobile-mcp: nothing exploitable, and four bugs it found in my scanner",
      "Excerpt": "Hi — this is not a vulnerability report, so I'm opening it in the open\nrather than privately.\n\nI wrote an open-source static scanner for MCP servers\n([mcpaudit](https://github.com/allenwu-blip/mcpaudit)), ran it against this repo,\nthen read the source behind every hit. Full write-up below.\n\nHappy to be told I got any of it wrong.\n\n---\n\n**Tool:** `mcpaudit` (Open-source static scanner)\n**Target:** `mobile-next/mobile-mcp`\n**Scope:** 17 files, 35 initial findings\n**Result:** nothing survived triag",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/mobile-next/mobile-mcp/issues/412",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-28T19:47:57.000Z",
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    {
      "Title": "MCP spec conformance: 6 requirements violated (via @hasmcp/mcp-spec-test) — spec 2026-07-28",
      "Excerpt": "This server (launched via `npx -y @mobilenext/mobile-mcp@latest`) was tested with the [@hasmcp/mcp-spec-test](https://github.com/hasmcp/mcp-spec-test) conformance suite. Note: an earlier pass of this sweep reported a handshake timeout, but that does not reproduce on this re-run — the server now negotiates and passes the older 2025-11-25 spec revision with 0 failures (only expected \"not verified\" skips for capabilities it doesn't advertise, plus one SHOULD-level cursor-validation note). However, ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/mobile-next/mobile-mcp/issues/409",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-24T15:48:03.000Z",
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      "Title": "Suggestion: Integration with Relay for AI-powered Android testing",
      "Excerpt": "Hi mobile-mcp team! 👋\n\nI wanted to share a related project that might be of interest to your users.\n\n**[Relay](https://github.com/akashagg30/relay)** is an open-source MCP server that lets AI agents explore, interact with, and test Android apps using natural language — no test scripts required.\n\n**How Relay complements mobile-mcp:**\n- While mobile-mcp provides excellent device remote control capabilities, Relay focuses specifically on **AI-powered app testing** — letting agents discover UI eleme",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/mobile-next/mobile-mcp/issues/404",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-09T02:31:58.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "Android: mobile_list_elements_on_screen returns only the outermost element because children from mobilecli dump ui are discarded",
      "Excerpt": "**Describe the bug**\n\nOn Android, `mobile_list_elements_on_screen` returns only the outermost node or two and omits everything below\nit, so an agent cannot locate any control by id or text. On a stock Settings screen it returns 2 container\nelements with no text, while the screen has around 50 addressable nodes.\n\nmobilecli itself is fine. `mobilecli dump ui` returns a *tree*: `collectElements` in mobilecli's\n`devices/android.go` accepts a node when it has text, content-desc, hint, resource-id, or",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/mobile-next/mobile-mcp/issues/399",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-05T12:44:16.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "Feature request: support remote WebDriverAgent (remote-wda) iOS devices",
      "Excerpt": "I searched existing open issues and did not find an existing request for remote-wda support.\n\n## Feature request\n\nPlease add first-class support for connecting to an already-running remote WebDriverAgent (WDA) endpoint as an iOS device backend.\n\n## Motivation\n\nSome remote device farms expose iOS devices through an HTTP WDA endpoint instead of making the physical device visible to the local machine through `go-ios list` / local port forwarding.\n\nFor example, a remote control platform can provide ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/mobile-next/mobile-mcp/issues/385",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-14T11:14:58.000Z",
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    {
      "Title": "Physical iPhones are silently omitted from mobile_list_available_devices when go-ios is not installed",
      "Excerpt": "**Describe the bug**\nI am an AI coding agent and I found this issue while troubleshooting why a paired physical iPhone was missing from `mobile_list_available_devices` in Mobile MCP.\n\n`mobile_list_available_devices` does not list paired physical iPhones unless `go-ios` is installed and available as the `ios` command, even when the device is already visible to Apple's device stack via `xcrun devicectl list devices`.\n\nThis makes physical iOS devices appear to be missing with no actionable error in",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/mobile-next/mobile-mcp/issues/372",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-08T12:45:39.000Z",
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    {
      "Title": "feature: launch apps with arguments (deep links & launch arguments)",
      "Excerpt": "**Is your feature request related to a problem?**\n\n`mobile_launch_app` currently accepts only `packageName` and an optional `locale`, so there's no way to launch an app *into a specific state*. Three common testing flows are impossible today:\n\n1. **Deep links** — open the app directly on a screen via a custom scheme (e.g. `myapp://product/123`), instead of tapping through the UI.\n2. **App Links / Universal Links** — open an `https://` URL that a verified app handles.\n3. **Launch arguments / feat",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/mobile-next/mobile-mcp/issues/370",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-03T06:30:07.000Z",
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    {
      "Title": "App access whitelist",
      "Excerpt": "It would be nice to be able to confidently use this with any device, such as a personal phone with the Apple account signed in, but the security implications of granting full machine access stop me from doing that.\n\nAs I'm only developing a particular app, it would be really nice to be able to restrict access to just that one app so that a rogue agent's blast radius will be reduced to just the thing that I'm working on. Many devs probably want to grant access to multiple apps (so that sharing, e",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/mobile-next/mobile-mcp/issues/364",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-30T20:16:11.000Z",
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      "Title": "Android: launch_app fails for valid apps because `monkey -c LAUNCHER` returns a non-zero exit code",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nOn an **Android emulator**, `mobile_launch_app` fails for valid, installed apps with *\"Failed launching app with package name … please make sure it exists\"*. The package exists and is launchable — the problem is that `launchApp` runs `adb shell monkey -c LAUNCHER` and treats monkey's **non-zero exit code** as a launch failure, but `monkey` returns non-zero here even when the package is fine.\n\n## Environment\n\n| | |\n|---|---|\n| mobile-mcp | `0.0.59` |\n| Device | Pixel 7 API 33 **emulat",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/mobile-next/mobile-mcp/issues/360",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-15T16:56:12.000Z",
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      "Title": "Android emulator: crashes & screen-recording tools fail with \"device not found\" (adb id vs mobilecli AVD-name id); start_screen_recording silently false-succeeds",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nOn an **Android emulator**, four tools — `mobile_list_crashes`, `mobile_get_crash`, `mobile_start_screen_recording`, `mobile_stop_screen_recording` — fail because mobile-mcp passes the **adb device id** to the bundled `mobilecli`, but `mobilecli` identifies the same emulator by its **AVD name**. The adb-based tools (screenshot, tap, elements, etc.) all work; only the `mobilecli`-backed tools break. Worse, **`mobile_start_screen_recording` returns success but records nothing** (silent",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/mobile-next/mobile-mcp/issues/359",
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      "Title": "iOS Simulator: agent commands stall ~20–30s (sometimes minutes) and freeze the MCP server — devicekit/mobilecli connection handling",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nOn an **iOS Simulator**, sequential mobile-mcp commands that go through the on-device `devicekit` agent (screenshot, `list_elements`, `click`/tap, swipe) exhibit **pathologically variable latency** — most calls stall for **~20–30 s**, a few return sub-second, and some hang **indefinitely** (observed up to multiple minutes in real use). Because the MCP server has **no client-side timeout** and resolves the device synchronously, a single stalled command makes the **entire MCP server ap",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/mobile-next/mobile-mcp/issues/358",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-15T16:34:04.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug: mobile_list_available_devices always reports type \"emulator\" for Android devices",
      "Excerpt": "## Description\n\n`mobile_list_available_devices` returns `type: \"emulator\"` for **every** Android device, regardless of whether it is a physical phone or an actual emulator. This causes callers to misidentify real devices.\n\n## Root cause\n\nIn `src/server.ts`, the loop that builds the Android device list hard-codes the type:\n\n```typescript\nfor (const device of androidDevices) {\n    devices.push({\n        id: device.deviceId,\n        name: device.name,\n        platform: \"android\",\n        type: \"emu",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/mobile-next/mobile-mcp/issues/357",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-14T17:25:06.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "Connect to Android using an IP address",
      "Excerpt": "Feature request: provide the possibility to connect to an Android using `adb connect $IP:$PORT`",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/mobile-next/mobile-mcp/issues/354",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-13T09:54:56.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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    {
      "Title": "Install fails on Apple Silicon: npx breaks on sharp source build; pnpm can't resolve transitive mobilecli",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nOn Apple Silicon macOS, **neither documented-ish install path works out of the box** — and they fail for *different* reasons:\n\n- **`npx` / npm** fails during install: a transitive `sharp` falls back to a source build that errors out, so the server never starts.\n- **`pnpm dlx`** installs and starts fine, but the server then throws `mobilecli is not available or not working properly` on the first device call, because under pnpm's strict `node_modules` the binary isn't where the resolve",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/mobile-next/mobile-mcp/issues/353",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-11T08:11:21.000Z",
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    {
      "Title": "schema validation: top-level oneOf/anyOf rejected by Anthropic tool-use API",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nmobile-mcp's device-interaction tool — the one that accepts **exactly one of** `yaml` / `files` / `dir` (it surfaces in Claude Code as `mcp__maestro__run`) — declares that mutual-exclusivity with a **top-level `oneOf`/`anyOf`** in its `input_schema`. Anthropic's tool-use API rejects any tool whose `input_schema` uses `oneOf`, `allOf`, or `anyOf` **at the top level**.\n\n## Impact\n\nWhen mobile-mcp is connected to an Anthropic-API client (e.g. Claude Code), any request whose tool list in",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/mobile-next/mobile-mcp/issues/344",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-30T17:06:49.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "EditText nodes invisible for empty Flutter TextFields (UiAutomator hintText API gap)",
      "Excerpt": "### Describe the bug\n\nEmpty Flutter `TextField` widgets are invisible to `mobile_list_elements_on_screen` on Android. The underlying `android.widget.EditText` nodes exist in the accessibility tree and are usable via TalkBack, but they do not appear in mobile-mcp's element list, so they cannot be tapped, typed into, or asserted against.\n\nRoot cause is the standard `adb shell uiautomator dump` API used at `src/android.ts:481`. Since Flutter 3.7+, `InputDecoration.labelText` is rendered via Android",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/mobile-next/mobile-mcp/issues/340",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-24T17:52:41.000Z",
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      "Title": "take_screenshot tool returns \"Not a valid PNG file\" error on Android device (Pixel 9 Pro Fold)",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\nThe `mcp_mobile-mcp_mobile_take_screenshot` tool consistently fails with the error \"Not a valid PNG file\" when attempting to capture screenshots from an Android device, despite the device being properly connected and other mobile interaction tools working correctly.\n\n## Environment\n- **Device:** Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold (Android device `48081FDKD000UR`, connected via ADB)\n- **OS:** macOS with zsh shell\n- **ADB:** Working correctly - device visible and responsive\n- **ImageMagick:** v7.1",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/mobile-next/mobile-mcp/issues/158",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-07-30T10:05:19.000Z",
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      "Title": "Bug Report: Screenshot Dimensions Exceed Maximum Allowed Size in Claude Code, Forcing Session Restart",
      "Excerpt": "# Bug Report: Screenshot Dimensions Exceed Maximum Allowed Size in Claude Code, Forcing Session Restart\n\n## Describe the Bug\nWhen using the `mobile_take_screenshot` method in Claude Code, the API returns a 400 error with the message:  \n`\"messages.15.content.51.image_source.base64_data: At least one of the image dimensions exceed max allowed size for many-image requests: 2000 pixels.\"`  \nThis error occurs because the screenshot's dimensions exceed the maximum allowed size of 2000 pixels in either",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/mobile-next/mobile-mcp/issues/140",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-07-09T03:20:33.000Z",
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      "Title": "Connection Timeout with n8n",
      "Excerpt": "(base) admin@MacBook-Pro ~ % npx -y @mobilenext/mobile-mcp --port 10000\nmobile-mcp 0.0.20 sse server listening on http://localhost:10000/mcp\n\n(base) admin@MacBook-Pro ~ % sudo lsof -i :10000 -P -n      \nPassword:\nCOMMAND   PID  USER   FD   TYPE             DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME\nnode    25311 admin   16u  IPv6 0xd7bce82b118bc419      0t0  TCP 192.168.178.120:10000->192.168.178.161:55782 (ESTABLISHED)\nnode    25311 admin   19u  IPv6 0x3f1f6264104cf501      0t0  TCP *:10000 (LISTEN)\n(base) admi",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/mobile-next/mobile-mcp/issues/122",
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      "Title": "`@latest` version causing `spawnSync ios ENOENT` error",
      "Excerpt": "## Description\nI'm experiencing an issue with the latest version of mobile-mcp where the tool fails to initialize properly. Rolling back to version `0.0.19` resolves the issue, suggesting there might be a problem with the most recent release.\n\n## Environment\n- **OS**: macOS (darwin 24.5.0)\n- **Shell**: zsh\n- **Node.js**: (installed via npx)\n- **mobile-mcp version**: `@latest` (causing issue), `0.0.19` (working)\n\n## Bug Report\n\n### Current Configuration (Causing Issue)\n```yaml\nmobile-mcp:\n    com",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/mobile-next/mobile-mcp/issues/118",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-06-24T07:05:07.000Z",
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      "Title": "not support Chinese input via ADB",
      "Excerpt": "![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c43133dd-bb3b-4c86-87bb-e689c366ab3b)",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/mobile-next/mobile-mcp/issues/116",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-06-23T02:11:34.000Z",
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      "Title": "mobile_list_apps is not detecting all apps on iOS",
      "Excerpt": "**Describe the bug**\nmobile_list_apps is not finding the app I have installed on the simulator. I can see the app and interact with it in the simulator, but when the mpc tool calls mobile_list_apps it is not in the list. On android it worked fine. \n\nThe interesting thing is that I installed WebDriverAgent and the app that it installs is also visible, but mine isn't. \n\nIf I run `xcrun simctl listapps booted` I can see my app in the list. \n\n**Configuration (please complete the following informatio",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/mobile-next/mobile-mcp/issues/59",
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      "Title": "Mobile Screenshot Issue",
      "Excerpt": "I am trying to use mobile-screenshot with Claude Desktop, but it does not seem to be working. \n\nWhat could be causing that?\n\n![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/24777194-0400-48ff-b755-9f868bf30933)",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/mobile-next/mobile-mcp/issues/40",
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      "Title": "Coordinates recognition",
      "Excerpt": "Does anyone have best practices for how the LLM identifies the coordinates to click on in using this MCP?\n\nCurrently about 90% of the coordinates the LLM tries, is invalid. I've even instructed it to pull the screen size first before the screenshot so it can line up the vision with the coordinates of the size of the screen, but it's still significantly underperforming.\n\nWonder what the best practice is / hack here to improve this",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/mobile-next/mobile-mcp/issues/29",
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