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# Giving an LLM Eyes and Hands on a Mobile Simulator

DEV Community: ios·Duchan·2 days ago
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The interface a human uses When a person does QA in tapflow, the loop is: Look at the simulator screen Decide what to do (tap, swipe, type) Do it Look again This is exactly the perception-action loop that vision-capable LLMs are built for. The model sees a screenshot, reasons about what it shows, decides what action to take, and calls a tool to execute it. We didn't need to build a new automation layer. We just needed to expose tapflow's existing WebSocket and REST APIs as MCP tools. What the MCP server does @tapflowio/mcp-server connects to a running tapflow relay and registers 13 tools that any MCP-compatible client can call: list_devices — see all simulators registered on the relay connect_device — join a device session boot_device — boot a simulator (waits up to 30s for ready state) screenshot — capture the current screen tap — tap at a pixel coordinate swipe — swipe between two coordinates type_text — type into the focused field press_key — press a keyboard key (Return, Delete, Escape...) press_button —…

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