Argent Ios Simulator Setup

This handles the boring setup work before you interact with iOS simulators through argent's MCP tools. It finds booted simulators via list-devices, boots one if needed, and verifies the connection so gesture and interaction commands work. The main thing to know is that it filters for platform "ios" entries and looks for that UDID format (the UUID-style identifier). If you're spinning up sub-agents to handle simulator tasks, you'll need to pass through MCP permissions. It's straightforward glue code that saves you from manually checking device states every time you start a session.

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$ npx -y skills add software-mansion/argent --skill argent-ios-simulator-setup --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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1. Setup Steps

Find a booted simulator. Use list-devices. Filter for entries with platform: "ios" and skip kind: "device" (a physical iPhone): booted simulators are listed first. Through MCP, simulators that are shut down follow the JSON object, one line each, with the udid second. If no fitting simulator is booted, call boot-device with udid: <chosen UDID>.
No connect step. Interaction tools (gesture-tap, describe, screenshot, …) auto-start the simulator server on first use.