Inspect, wait for, accept, or dismiss a platform alert. Use get before acting when the alert content matters; accept and dismiss change the active alert state. Times out after 90s.

Open the device app switcher to inspect or change foreground apps. This changes the visible system UI and may move focus away from the current app. Times out after 90s.

List the apps installed on the selected device. Include system or OEM apps only when they are needed as automation targets. Times out after 90s.

Show foreground app/activity Times out after 90s.

List daemon or cloud provider artifacts for an active or completed session. Times out after 90s.

Measure browser or host-rendered simulator/emulator audio as compact dBFS buckets. Start a probe before requesting its status or stopping it. Times out after 90s.

Navigate back in the app or through system navigation. Use in-app for the app navigation stack and system when the platform back behavior is required. Times out after 90s; a caller-supplied budget extends it.

Execute multiple commands in one daemon request Times out after 90s.

Boot or prepare the selected device or simulator so later commands can target it. The device is chosen through the device-selection inputs, not by naming it here. Times out after 90s.

List the commands supported by the selected device or active session. Use device-selection inputs when checking support before a session is open. Times out after 90s.

Activate a UI target by snapshot ref, selector, or coordinates. Prefer a ref or selector after a snapshot; use coordinates only when semantic targeting is unavailable. This can change app state; use settle or verify to confirm the result without a follow-up snapshot. Times out after 90s; a caller-supplied budget extends it.

Read the current device clipboard text, or replace its contents with the given text. Times out after 90s.

Close the named app, or close the active session app when app is omitted. Use shutdown only when the selected simulator or emulator should also stop. Times out after 90s.

Symbolicate Apple crash artifacts with matching dSYM UUIDs. This debug namespace is intentionally narrow: use logs for app logs, network for HTTP evidence, perf for performance samples, record/trace for media and traces, and react-devtools for React Native profiles. Times out after 90s.

List available devices and simulators that can be selected for automation. Use platform, device, udid, or serial inputs on later commands to target one result. Times out after 90s.

Compare accessibility snapshots or screenshots to identify UI changes. Use snapshot comparisons for semantic tree changes and screenshot comparisons for pixel differences. Times out after 90s.

Diagnose device, app, development-server, and React Native or Expo readiness issues. Returns compact evidence for local inventory, sessions, optional app discovery, toolchains, and server reachability. On iOS simulators it also warms the XCTest runner build cache in the background when missing, so run it before the first Apple snapshot or interaction of a session. Times out after 90s.

Read the daemon-owned session event timeline as paged JSON-friendly entries Times out after 90s.

Replace text in a UI input selected by snapshot ref, selector, or coordinates. Prefer refs or selectors after snapshot; use recordAs to keep sensitive text out of a recorded replay while sending it to the live app. Times out after 90s; a caller-supplied budget extends it.

Find by text/label/value/role/id and run action Times out after 90s.

Move input focus to explicit screen coordinates without entering text. Prefer semantic interactions when a snapshot ref or selector is available; use type or fill after focus. Times out after 90s.

Perform a structured pan, fling, swipe, pinch, rotate, transform, or drag gesture. Select the gesture kind, then provide only the inputs that apply to that kind. Times out after 90s.

Read text or accessibility attributes from a snapshot ref or selector without changing the app. Use format text for visible content or attrs for the element attribute map. Times out after 90s.

Send the selected device to its home screen. This leaves the app session open but moves the foreground away from the app. Times out after 90s.

Move the pointer over a UI target by snapshot ref, selector, or coordinates without pressing, to reveal hover-gated UI such as row toolbars or menus. Web only; touch platforms have no hover state. Use settle to observe what the hover revealed without a follow-up snapshot. Times out after 90s; a caller-supplied budget extends it.

Install an app binary from a local path. Provide an app identifier with the path when the target needs explicit app selection; use reinstall to replace an already installed app. Times out after 180s.

Install app builds from URLs, remote source specs, or CI artifacts resolved by a remote daemon. Times out after 90s.

Check whether a selector satisfies a UI predicate such as visible, hidden, editable, selected, focused, or text. Use wait when the condition may appear asynchronously. Times out after 90s.

Inspect Android keyboard visibility/type or press/dismiss the device keyboard. To hide the keyboard, use keyboard dismiss. It taps the keyboard dismiss/hide key when one is exposed, verifies the keyboard closed, and reports UNSUPPORTED_OPERATION when no dismiss key exists — background taps are never attempted. Times out after 90s.

Session app log info, start/stop streaming, diagnostics, and markers Times out after 90s.

Hold a UI target by snapshot ref, selector, or coordinates to open a context menu or perform another hold gesture. Set durationMs when the default hold duration is unsuitable. Times out after 210s; a caller-supplied budget extends it.

Prepare a React Native development server or ask connected apps to reload, using the development server this session is bound to. Provide explicit runtime inputs only to override that binding for one call. The binding is cleared when the session closes, and a fresh open without runtime hints also clears any leftover binding from a previous same-name session. Times out after 90s.

Dump recent HTTP(s) traffic parsed from the session app log Times out after 90s.

Boot the selected device when needed, then open an app, deep link, or URL in a session. Use the app or URL inputs to choose what becomes the foreground automation target. Metro and debug runtime hints given here are recorded as the session's dev-server binding, so a later reload reuses them; a fresh open without them clears any binding left by a previous same-name session. Times out after 90s.

Set device orientation on iOS and Android Times out after 90s.

Collect frame health, memory diagnostics, and platform profiling artifacts with compact agent-readable summaries. For CPU profiles, start and stop write the raw artifact while report writes a compact summary; request the report when the task needs readable native CPU evidence. Profiling output is evidence only: compact state, artifact path, and size. Times out after 90s.

Short-press a UI target by snapshot ref, selector, or coordinates. Use longpress instead when the target requires a context-menu or hold gesture. Times out after 90s; a caller-supplied budget extends it.

Deliver push notification payloads to an installed app. Times out after 90s.

Run supported React Native automation helpers. Use dismiss-overlay to close a visible development error overlay before continuing normal UI automation. Times out after 90s.

Start or stop a screen recording for the active app session or, where supported, the selected device. Long Android recordings can return multiple video artifacts; HarmonyOS supports whole-screen recording on physical devices. Times out after 90s.

Replace an installed app with a binary from a local path. Use this when preserving the same app identity while installing a new build on the selected device. Times out after 180s.

Run a recorded automation script, including compatible Maestro YAML flows. A script without a terminal close leaves its session active for subsequent automation. Times out after 90s; a caller-supplied budget extends it.

Capture a screenshot of the active app or web session. Choose the capture scope, density, size, or annotations through the corresponding input fields when needed. Times out after 90s.

Scroll in a direction, or toward the top/bottom edge of scrollable content. The optional amount is the finger-path fraction of the viewport axis; app scroll physics determine the final content offset. Times out after 90s; a caller-supplied budget extends it.

List active sessions, print the effective daemon state directory, or publish an armed open-to-destination script without closing its session Times out after 90s.

Change supported operating-system settings, animation scales, appearance, or app permissions on the selected target. Platform support varies by setting and action. Times out after 90s.

Shutdown a selected simulator or emulator. Times out after 90s.

Capture the accessibility tree or compare it with the previous session baseline. Use the returned refs for subsequent semantic interactions and the diff option to verify UI changes. Times out after 90s; a caller-supplied budget extends it.

Quick coordinate fling with optional repeat pattern. Times out after 90s.

Run one or more replay scripts as a serial test suite Streams progress; no fixed client timeout.

Start or stop trace-log capture and return the resulting artifact when capture ends. Use the same artifact path for the matching start and stop requests when an explicit path is required. Times out after 90s.

Ask the app to handle an app-defined automation or test event, with an optional structured payload. Call this only for event names and payload shapes the app documents. Times out after 90s.

Press or long-press a TV remote or D-pad button on Android TV, tvOS, or Vega OS. Choose the button and optional hold duration through the input fields. The aliases ok, center, and enter all map to select. Times out after 90s.

Append text to the currently focused input. Use fill when the existing field value should be replaced, and focus first when no input is active. Times out after 90s.

Resize the active web viewport before taking snapshots or screenshots. Useful for fixed-layout or 100vh apps where changing the viewport reveals different content. Times out after 90s.

Wait for a duration, text, snapshot ref, selector, or stable UI. Use text, ref, or selector for a specific readiness condition; stable waits until the UI stays quiet for the requested window. Times out after 90s; a caller-supplied budget extends it.

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