High-risk tools in Claude Mobile

App lifecycle: launch, stop, install, list

Install APK (Android) or .app bundle (iOS)

Launch app by package name or bundle ID

Force-stop then re-launch an app. Common pattern for clearing in-memory state without uninstall.

Force stop an app

Build a signed .ipa for TestFlight (auto-detects Flutter/React Native/KMP/Xcode projects).

Submit a TestFlight build for external beta review (defaults to the latest VALID build).

Validate then upload an .ipa to App Store Connect (TestFlight) via altool.

AI Test Autopilot. explore: auto-navigate app and build navigation graph. generate: create test scenarios from exploration. heal: self-heal broken test selectors. status: explor...

Automatically navigate the app, building a navigation graph of screens and transitions. Uses screen fingerprinting to avoid revisiting screens.

Self-heal a broken test step by finding the best matching element on the current screen. Uses fuzzy matching on text, resourceId, className, and bounds.

Browser automation. open/close/list_sessions: session management. navigate/click/fill/fill_form/press_key: interaction. snapshot/screenshot: capture. evaluate: run JS. wait_for_...

Click element by ref, selector, or text

Close browser session

Execute JavaScript in browser page

Navigate to URL or go back/forward/reload

Open URL in browser session

Press keyboard key in browser

Wait for element to appear on page

Select all text in focused field (Android only)

Attach the runtime debugger to a DEBUGGABLE running app. Android (JDWP): the package must have android:debuggable=true. iOS (LLDB Simulator): requires macOS + Xcode. Returns a s...

Set a breakpoint. Android: {className, line} or {className, method} (method-entry, robust without line info). iOS: {file, line} or {method}. Returns { id, verified }. verified=f...

Detach the debugger and end the session (the app keeps running). Also tears down the adb forward / LLDB daemon for this session.

Evaluate an expression on a paused thread. Android: a local name,

Resume all threads in the debugged VM/process. Use after inspecting a paused state to let the app continue running.

Mutate a local variable on a paused thread. Android: primitives (int/long/bool/float/…), null, and strings; the value is coerced to the local

Step the paused thread: OVER (next line), INTO (into call), or OUT (out of current method). Issues the step and resumes the thread; poll for STEP_HIT to see where execution landed.

Desktop app management: launch (Gradle/bundle/attach), stop, windows, focus, resize, clipboard, performance, monitors, get_target_pid

Focus a desktop window

Start desktop automation and optionally launch an app. Supports three modes:

Resize a desktop window

Stop running desktop application

Device management + module loading. list/set/set_target/get_target: devices. enable_module/disable_module/list_modules: load browser/desktop/store tools on demand.

Flow orchestration: batch (multi-command), run (multi-step automation with loops/conditionals), parallel (same action on multiple devices). Use turbo:true for rich feedback (exp...

Execute multiple commands in one round-trip. Set turbo:true for UI context per step (experimental).

Run same action on multiple devices in parallel. Uses Promise.allSettled for concurrent execution.

Multi-step automation flow with conditionals, loops, error handling. Use for E2E testing instead of calling tools one-by-one. Set turbo:true for UI context per step (experimenta...

Press back button

Input actions. tap/double_tap/long_press: coords or text/id/label/index. swipe: direction or coords. text: type text. key: press key.

Double tap by coordinates, text, resourceId, or index. Raw x/y are screenshot-space and auto-scaled to device coordinates — see input_tap description for full coordinate space r...

Press hardware key (BACK, HOME, ENTER, etc.)

Long press at coordinates or on element by text/label. Raw x/y are screenshot-space and auto-scaled to device coordinates — see input_tap description for full coordinate space r...

Swipe by direction or custom coordinates. Raw x1/y1/x2/y2 are screenshot-space and auto-scaled to device coordinates — see input_tap description for full coordinate space rules.

Tap by coordinates, text, resourceId, label, or element index.\n\n

Type text into focused input field

Intent & Deep Link Engine. start: launch activity with extras. broadcast: send broadcast intent. deeplink: open deep link URI. services: list running services.

Send an Android broadcast intent. Useful for triggering system events or communicating with broadcast receivers. Android only.

Open a deep link URI on Android or iOS. On Android uses

Launch an Activity with a structured Android Intent. Supports action, component, data URI, category, typed extras, and activity flags. Android only; use intent_deeplink for iOS.

Launch app

Network Layer. traffic: app network traffic stats. connectivity: connection type/state. proxy: get/set HTTP proxy. airplane: toggle airplane mode.

Enable or disable airplane mode on the Android device.

Performance & Crash Monitor. snapshot: collect current metrics. baseline: save metrics for comparison. compare: PASS/FAIL against baseline. monitor: continuous sampling over dur...

Grant app permission (Android runtime / iOS privacy)

Press key

Replay a saved scenario. Executes all steps sequentially with optional speed/timeout control.

Begin recording user interactions as a test scenario

Block until a prompt regex matches, the session idles, the child exits, or the timeout fires.

Send a named key to a session. Editing/navigation for driving TUIs.

Resize the PTY and vt100 grid for a live session.

Write text to a REPL session. Appends a newline by default.

Start an interactive REPL or CLI process under a PTY. Returns the session id.

Sensor & Environment Simulation. location: set GPS coordinates. battery: set battery level/status. notifications: read notification shade. thermal: set thermal status.

Set GPS location on device. Android emulator: uses

Override Android thermal status (API 29+ / Android 10+). Simulates device overheating scenarios. Use reset:true to restore real thermal state. iOS: not supported.

Halt staged rollout on Google Play

Swipe in a direction

Multi-device sync testing. create_group: bind devices to roles. run: coordinated steps with barriers. assert_cross: act on A, verify on B. status: group details. list: all group...

Cross-device assertion: perform action on source device, verify result on target device with retries.

Execute coordinated steps across devices with barrier synchronization.

System operations, clipboard, permissions, files. shell: run command. logs: device logs. clipboard_*: Android clipboard. permission_*: app permissions. file_*: Aurora file trans...

Open URL in device browser

Execute a shell command on the device. SECURITY: shell metacharacters

Wait for specified duration (ms)

Tap at x,y

Find and tap element by text

Type into focused field

UI inspection and interaction. tree: accessibility tree. find: search elements. find_tap: fuzzy tap (Android). tap_text: tap by text (Desktop). analyze: screen analysis. wait/as...

Fuzzy tap by natural language element description (Android only). When the matched element is a non-clickable label (common in grid/list items where the parent ViewGroup owns th...

Tap element by text via Accessibility API (Desktop/macOS only)

Wait for UI element to appear (polling with timeout)

Run visual comparison for all baselines matching filters (batch regression check)

Wait milliseconds