# simulator-use

Simulator use for agents: read and drive the iOS Simulator from any MCP client or the command line.

- **Type:** MCP server
- **Trust:** 60/100 (B), scored on the package rubric
- **Verification:** community-indexed — nobody has claimed this listing
- **Version:** 0.12.2
- **Author:** Unknown
- **License:** MIT
- **npm:** simulator-use
- **Source:** https://github.com/NoMac-app/simulator-use
- **Compatible clients:** claude-code, cursor, copilot, gemini (basis: transport)

## Trust

60/100 (B), scored on the package rubric
- Publisher verified: no
- Install scripts: nothing suspicious found
- Prompt-injection scan: not run
- Obfuscation scan: not run
- Evidence age: 0 days

## Security scan

- **Status:** clean
- **Scanned:** 2026-11-01T11:29:54.835Z
- **Version scanned:** 0.15.0
- **CVEs:** none found by OSV at scan time

## Tools

12 declared. Statically extracted from the shipped source — a floor on the surface, not a census.
- `app_control` — Launch, install, stop or remove an app; open a URL or deep link; grant, revoke or reset permissions; set location; send a push; test purchases (.storekit); set 
- `app_logs` — The app's recent output, oldest first: its print() lines (when app_control launched it) and what it logged to the system log. grep filters, and also searches Ap
- `app_run` — Build the Xcode project in a folder for the Simulator, install and launch it, and answer with its first screen. Errors as file:line. A build past 40 s answers w
- `cloud` — A NoMac cloud iPhone or iPad Simulator, billed per minute, for Linux, Windows, cloud agents, CI. start signs in (a link; NOMAC_API_KEY headless), starts one: un
- `device_use` — Choose the Simulator the other tools use, booting it if needed (one boot at a time), and optionally set dark or light appearance and a clean status bar (9:41, f
- `devices` — List the iOS Simulators on this Mac: name, runtime, UDID and which are booted, and its Xcodes. The other tools use the booted one.
- `job_status` — Wait up to 40 s for a job (a long build) to finish and answer with its result, or with what it is doing and its last output lines.
- `job_cancel` — Stop a job, such as a build that is no longer needed.
- `screen_record` — Start or stop a video of the Simulator's screen. stop answers with the MP4 file, to show a person what happened.
- `tests_run` — Run the Xcode project's unit and UI tests on the Simulator. Answers with the counts and each failure as file:line, read from Xcode's result bundle; "0 tests ran
- `ui_act` — Do steps on the Simulator in order and get back what changed. Steps: tap #id | tap "label" | tap @x,y | fill #id text | type text | scroll down | swipe left ["r
- `ui_look` — Read the Simulator's screen as compact text: one line per element with its kind, label, #id, state and @x,y center in points. Tabs, scrolling and the keyboard a

## Install

**Verdict: review** — Installable, but 1 thing to check first: No publisher has proved control of this listing; it is indexed, not vouched for.
**Cautions** (coverage gaps and advisories — never blocking)
- No publisher has proved control of this listing; it is indexed, not vouched for.
**Config** (claude-code):
```json
"{\n  \"mcpServers\": {\n    \"simulator-use\": {\n      \"command\": \"npx\",\n      \"args\": [\n        \"-y\",\n        \"simulator-use\"\n      ]\n    }\n  }\n}"
```

## Blast radius

Contained to moderate — no credential declaration found, from the publisher, the upstream registry, or the README. Known so far: runs on your machine; read-only tool surface.
- Floor 11, ceiling 29 (tier: unknown)
- `unknown` means the floor and ceiling land in different bands — not measured enough to name one. It does not mean low.
- This is impact, not likelihood. A high radius is not a defect: a filesystem server is supposed to write files. It is never part of the trust score.

## Machine-readable views of this entry

- Signed JSON: https://forgeregistry.com/api/v1/packages/simulator-use
- Install plan: https://forgeregistry.com/api/v1/packages/simulator-use/install-plan
- Alternatives: https://forgeregistry.com/api/v1/alternatives/simulator-use
- HTML page: https://forgeregistry.com/registry/simulator-use
- MCP: POST https://forgeregistry.com/api/mcp → `forge_get_package` / `forge_install_plan`

## About this document

Generated by Forge (https://forgeregistry.com) — a compact rendering of the same record served, signed, at the JSON URL above. Trust and scan facts are the registry's own measurements; anything Forge did not measure is named as unmeasured rather than omitted.