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Set up a cabled physical iPhone for argent. Use when a physical iPhone is involved (a list-devices iOS entry with kind "device") and ONLY then; never for a simulator.

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$ npx -y skills add software-mansion/argent --skill argent-ios-device-setup --agent claude-code

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argent-ios-device-setup.SKILL.md
name: argent-ios-device-setup
description: Set up a cabled physical iPhone for argent. Use when a physical iPhone is involved (a list-devices iOS entry with kind "device") and ONLY then; never for a simulator.

Physical iPhone setup

Read this only for a physical iPhone. Simulators use `argent-ios-simulator-setup`.

First run

1. Cable the phone, unlock it, keep the screen awake, and turn on Developer Mode (Settings > Privacy & Security > Developer Mode). `list-devices` must show it `connected`. 2. `launch-app` only registers the app. The first `describe`, gesture or `screenshot` builds, signs and starts the on-device runner: minutes cold, tens of seconds from cache or after a tool-server restart. Build cap 15 min, runner ready 120 s. 3. On the first install the phone asks to trust the developer (Settings > General > VPN & Device Management), and an **Argent Runner** app appears on the home screen. Tell the user it is argent's automation runner and must stay installed.

Signing and failures

Signing needs no configuration: the first call on a phone names the team it picked; `ARGENT_IOS_TEAM_ID` in the tool-server environment overrides it. Errors name their fix (cable, lock, trust, signing, a stuck runner): apply it and retry the same call. A failed build quotes xcodebuild's own `error:` lines.

Then read `argent-ios-device-interact`.

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Questions about argent-ios-device-setup.

Which coding agents can use argent-ios-device-setup?
argent-ios-device-setup installs in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode and Windsurf with the skills CLI, using each agent's flag shown on this page. Flowy's auto-invocation, which fires a skill when your prompt matches, runs in Claude Code only.