Show HN: mobile-agent – Let AI agents control Android and iOS devices

Category: devtools

Tags: ai-agents, mobile-automation, android, ios, rust, cli, mcp

Score: 7.3/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 9, Documentation: 6, Utility: 7)

mobile-agent is a Rust-based daemon and CLI/MCP tool that lets AI agents control Android and iOS devices by maintaining a live mirror of screen state, using platform-specific low-level interfaces (adb, dtuhidd, IOSurface) instead of instrumentation or XCTest for most operations. It distinguishes itself by optimizing the tap-and-observe latency loop and reusing agent-browser's command grammar, making it a sophisticated piece of developer tooling for mobile automation.

Target audience: AI agent developers, mobile automation engineers, QA/test engineers, and developers building device-controlling agents

Repository: https://github.com/gesposito/mobile-agent · Rust · MIT · 1 stars

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