How do I install the Argent IOS Device Setup skill?

Run npx skillmds add software-mansion/argent-ios-device-setup in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

What does the Argent IOS Device Setup skill do?

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. It is listed under Coding & Dev Tools on SkillMD.

Is Argent IOS Device Setup safe to use?

This skill has not completed SkillMD's automated safety review yet. Capability flags: reads secrets. SkillMD never runs a skill's scripts for you; review the SKILL.md before installing.

Which AI agents work with Argent IOS Device Setup?

This skill is tagged as working with Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex. SKILL.md is an open format, so most agents that read a skills directory can load it too.

Is Argent IOS Device Setup free to use?

Yes. Installing skills from SkillMD is free, and the skill stays under its author's original license.

Who published Argent IOS Device Setup?

software-mansion (@software-mansion) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Argent IOS Device Setup by software-mansion

Name: Argent IOS Device Setup
Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Author: software-mansion

File contents

Physical iPhone setup

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

First run

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.
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.
On the first install the phone asks to trust the developer (Settings > General > VPN & Device Management), and an ArgentRunner 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 phone call of a tool-server process carries a note naming the team picked and the ARGENT_IOS_TEAM_ID override (tool-server environment; a change forces a cold rebuild). Cable, lock, trust, expired-profile and missing-certificate errors name their fix: apply it, retry the same call. Also: errSecInternalComponent: run security set-key-partition-list -S apple-tool:,apple:,codesign: -s ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain-db (asks the user's login password), retry. team has no devices: keep the phone cabled, retry. Bundle id registration failed: free-team app-id cap, wait days or sign under a paid team. Any other xcodebuild failure prints raw error: lines: read ~/.argent/ios-device-runner/logs/runner-<udid8>.log. RUNNER_WEDGED: stop-simulator-server for the udid, retry.

Then read argent-ios-device-interact.

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