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xcodemcp MCP Server

Control Xcode directly via JXA for build, test, debug operations with XCLogParser integration

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Published as xcodemcp on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

6 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 5.

Most discussed

Request: Encourage build/run on currently-selected destination

Codex often decides to use the build or build and run tools by specifying a random device it likes instead of the one I already have selected. This is bad because it picks an OS version I don't want to test and it results in a full rebuild.

It shouldn't need to run a separate tool first to check what's selected either.

It would be great if the tool description / params encouraged the model to leave the destination device blank to run the user's current selection by default, and only specify a

Read the thread · 2025-10-08 · open · external user · 0 comments

Test tool sometimes fails without providing reason

• Called
  └ xcodemcp.xcode_test({"xcodeproj":"/Users/alex/Code/manabi/manabi-reader/ManabiReader.xcodeproj","scheme":"ManabiReader","destination":"iPhone 16e
        (26.0)"})
    Error: tool call error: tool call failed for `xcodemcp/xcode_test`

• Called
  └ xcodemcp.xcode_test({"xcodeproj":"/Users/alex/Code/manabi/manabi-reader/ManabiReader.xcodeproj","scheme":"ManabiReaderTests","destination":"iPhone
        16e (26.0)"})
    Error: tool call error: tool call failed for `xcodemcp/xcode_

[Read the thread](https://github.com/lapfelix/XcodeMCP/issues/9) · 2025-10-08 · open · external user · 2 comments

### Request: context reduction

I haven't instrumented it yet but it appears that some of my typical usage eats up a lot of tokens. I'm using it via Codex CLI in case that matters. xcodemcp.xcode_build_and_run and xcodemcp.xcode_get_schemes may be providing more than is necessary. Is there a good way to inspect this and then perhaps filter what they return?

(Apologies for the vague post but perhaps it's something you've already investigated and have thoughts on.) Thanks

[Read the thread](https://github.com/lapfelix/XcodeMCP/issues/8) · 2025-09-13 · open · external user · 5 comments

### Build/run logs?

Sorry if this is already covered and I missed it but is there a way to inspect build logs (to diagnose failures) or console logs from running the app? So that the MCP client can read these. Besides test results. Thanks

[Read the thread](https://github.com/lapfelix/XcodeMCP/issues/6) · 2025-08-16 · open · external user · 1 comment

### Support multiple Xcode workspaces

You can iterate through "documents" in osascript to find the one matching the target workspace path. Please use this instead of active workspace. Then I can have an Xcode open per agent worktree!

[Read the thread](https://github.com/lapfelix/XcodeMCP/issues/5) · 2025-08-09 · closed · external user · 3 comments

[See all 6 reports Pod holds for xcodemcp](/mcp/xcodemcp/issues).

## Firsthand observations

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