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XcodeBuildMCP MCP Server

XcodeBuildMCP provides tools for Xcode project management, simulator management, and app utilities.

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Published as xcodebuildmcp on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

304 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

[Bug]: Clean fails on my iOS only project

Bug Description

It looks like it's because I don't have a macOS target. Here's the output of the tool call

❌ [stderr] 2025-08-21 16:10:42.575 xcodebuild[8774:116510104]  DVTDeviceOperation: Encountered a build number "" that is incompatible with DVTBuildVersion.
❌ [stderr] 2025-08-21 16:10:42.577 xcodebuild[8774:116510070] [MT] DVTDeviceOperation: Encountered a build number "" that is incompatible with DVTBuildVersion.
❌ [stderr] 2025-08-21 16:10:42.709 xcodebuild[8774:116510070] Writi

[Read the thread](https://github.com/getsentry/XcodeBuildMCP/issues/99) · 2025-08-21 · closed · external user · 11 comments

### [Feature]: Identify how we can utilise the broader Model Context Protocol

### Feature Description

I would like to explore how we can support the broader Model Context Protocol specification in addition to our existing tool and sampling capabilities.

I'm interested in how resources, prompts and elicitation could be used to improve the DX for the agent as well as the end-user. 

## Useful resources:
https://modelcontextprotocol.io/llms-full.txt
https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction
https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk

### Use Cases

_No respo

[Read the thread](https://github.com/getsentry/XcodeBuildMCP/issues/78) · 2025-07-22 · closed · outside contributor · 14 comments

### [Feature]: Identify how we can utilise the broader Model Context Protocol

### Feature Description

I would like to explore how we can support the broader Model Context Protocol specification in addition to our existing tool and sampling capabilities.

I'm interested in how resources, prompts and elicitation could be used to improve the DX for the agent as well as the end-user. 

## Useful resources:
https://modelcontextprotocol.io/llms-full.txt
https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction
https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk

### Use Cases

_No respo

[Read the thread](https://github.com/getsentry/XcodeBuildMCP/issues/78) · 2025-07-22 · closed · outside contributor · 14 comments

### [Feature]: Filter build output for warnings and errors

### Feature Description

Often, when I use the tool `build_sim_id_ws` the context is blown away with a single invocation. I'm guessing this is because the build log output is filled with things like compiler commands that don't really matter to my LLM agent. It would be nice if these tools could have a flag that the agent could set that would filter all the cruft out and just present the LLM with warnings, errors, test failures, etc.

My agent often resorts to commands like this instead:

```bas

[Read the thread](https://github.com/getsentry/XcodeBuildMCP/issues/68) · 2025-06-11 · closed · outside contributor · 15 comments

### [Feature]: Filter build output for warnings and errors

### Feature Description

Often, when I use the tool `build_sim_id_ws` the context is blown away with a single invocation. I'm guessing this is because the build log output is filled with things like compiler commands that don't really matter to my LLM agent. It would be nice if these tools could have a flag that the agent could set that would filter all the cruft out and just present the LLM with warnings, errors, test failures, etc.

My agent often resorts to commands like this instead:

```bas

[Read the thread](https://github.com/getsentry/XcodeBuildMCP/issues/68) · 2025-06-11 · closed · outside contributor · 15 comments

### Most recent

### [Feature]: UI automation on physical devices via CoreDevice HID (pymobiledevice3)

### Summary

The `device` workflow can build, install, launch, stop and test on a physical device, but has no input or capture tools — `ui-automation` is simulator-only by design ("UI automation and accessibility testing tools for iOS simulators"). That leaves agent-driven verification on real hardware out of reach, even though the device itself exposes everything needed.

I'd like to propose adding device-scoped `tap` / `swipe` / `type` / `button` and `screenshot` to the `device` workflow, and 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/getsentry/XcodeBuildMCP/issues/519) · 2026-08-26 · open · external user · 0 comments

### [Feature]: UI automation on physical devices via CoreDevice HID (pymobiledevice3)

### Summary

The `device` workflow can build, install, launch, stop and test on a physical device, but has no input or capture tools — `ui-automation` is simulator-only by design ("UI automation and accessibility testing tools for iOS simulators"). That leaves agent-driven verification on real hardware out of reach, even though the device itself exposes everything needed.

I'd like to propose adding device-scoped `tap` / `swipe` / `type` / `button` and `screenshot` to the `device` workflow, and 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/getsentry/XcodeBuildMCP/issues/519) · 2026-08-26 · open · external user · 0 comments

### test_sim reports SUCCEEDED with 0 tests when per-call projectPath is ignored

## Summary

`test_sim` appears to ignore a per-call `projectPath` and use the session default instead. When the two differ, it reported `SUCCEEDED` having run **zero tests**.

## What happened

I had several agents working concurrently in separate git worktrees of one repo. Session defaults were set once, pointing `projectPath` at the main checkout:

session_set_defaults projectPath: /src/PinPoint.xcodeproj scheme: PinPoint simulatorName: iPhone 17 Pro


An agent working in `<

[Read the thread](https://github.com/getsentry/XcodeBuildMCP/issues/517) · 2026-08-23 · open · external user · 1 comment

### test_sim reports SUCCEEDED with 0 tests when per-call projectPath is ignored

## Summary

`test_sim` appears to ignore a per-call `projectPath` and use the session default instead. When the two differ, it reported `SUCCEEDED` having run **zero tests**.

## What happened

I had several agents working concurrently in separate git worktrees of one repo. Session defaults were set once, pointing `projectPath` at the main checkout:

session_set_defaults projectPath: /src/PinPoint.xcodeproj scheme: PinPoint simulatorName: iPhone 17 Pro


An agent working in `<

[Read the thread](https://github.com/getsentry/XcodeBuildMCP/issues/517) · 2026-08-23 · open · external user · 1 comment

### [Bug]: Simulator test fails on mixed iOS and watchOS test plans in 2.7.0

### Bug Description

`simulator test` fails on XcodeBuildMCP 2.7.0 when the scheme's test plan contains both iOS and watchOS unit test targets. The same command, project and simulator pass on 2.6.2.

2.7.0 builds the project and discovers both tests, then the prepared test phase fails to resolve the requested iOS Simulator. Removing only the watchOS test target from the test plan makes 2.7.0 pass.

I have attached a standalone repro with three targets and no dependencies, package manager or code

[Read the thread](https://github.com/getsentry/XcodeBuildMCP/issues/514) · 2026-08-11 · open · external user · 0 comments

### [Bug]: Simulator test fails on mixed iOS and watchOS test plans in 2.7.0

### Bug Description

`simulator test` fails on XcodeBuildMCP 2.7.0 when the scheme's test plan contains both iOS and watchOS unit test targets. The same command, project and simulator pass on 2.6.2.

2.7.0 builds the project and discovers both tests, then the prepared test phase fails to resolve the requested iOS Simulator. Removing only the watchOS test target from the test plan makes 2.7.0 pass.

I have attached a standalone repro with three targets and no dependencies, package manager or code

[Read the thread](https://github.com/getsentry/XcodeBuildMCP/issues/514) · 2026-08-11 · open · external user · 0 comments

### [Bug]: Device Hub opens for stable Xcode when Xcode 27 beta is co-installed

### Bug Description

When Xcode 26 stable and Xcode 27 beta are installed together, XcodeBuildMCP
2.7.0 opens the beta-only Device Hub even when `DEVELOPER_DIR` explicitly
selects stable Xcode and the target is an iOS 26.5 simulator.

This crosses the selected toolchain boundary. Stable Xcode 26 ships
`Simulator.app`; Device Hub is bundled only inside Xcode 27 beta on this host.

The cause appears to be the frontend candidate order in
[`focus-policy.ts`](https://github.com/getsentry/XcodeBuildMC

[Read the thread](https://github.com/getsentry/XcodeBuildMCP/issues/513) · 2026-08-11 · open · external user · 1 comment

[See all 24 reports Pod holds for XcodeBuildMCP](/mcp/xcodebuildmcp/issues) — of 304 qualified upstream.

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