phone-harness
Control the user's phone - an iPhone through the Mac's iPhone Mirroring window, an Android over adb, a rented cloud Android, or a cloud iPhone over HTTPS: open apps, tap, type, swipe, read the screen.
Why this score
Popularity score: 86/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 21, 2026 at commit 840d2966c3b5, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
What its code does:
- Runs shell commands Common for dev tools. Read the commands it runs.src/phone_harness/android.py:779
- Runs code it builds while running (eval or exec) Harder to read ahead of time, since the code is assembled while it runs.src/phone_harness/run.py:414
- Makes network requestsSKILL.md, src/phone_harness/cloud.py:152, src/phone_harness/remote.py:103 and 9 more
- Reads environment variables, where API keys usually liveintegrations/hermes/__init__.py:450
- Uses dependencies without a pinned version A later version of a dependency could change what runs.pyproject.toml:22 and 3 more
Web addresses in its code:
- phone-harness.comsrc/phone_harness/cloud.py:19
- api.phone-harness.comsrc/phone_harness/cloud.py:65
- clerk.phone-harness.comsrc/phone_harness/cloud.py:67
- us.i.posthog.comsrc/phone_harness/telemetry.py:22
These are the sites named in the code, so it's where your data could go. It isn't a complete list: code can build addresses while it runs, and a few of these may be links rather than calls. Whatever you send also goes to the AI model you use.
A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan
Alternatives
Other makers' add-ons that do the same job, next to this one.
| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This onephone-harness ShawnPana/phone-harness · Skill | 86 | ★ 3.8k | ≈54 always | 18d ago |
| mobile-harness droidrun/mobile-harness · Skill Same job: mobile apps | 75 | ★ 406 | ≈61 always | 16d ago |
| harness revfactory/harness · Skill Both about harness | 83 | ★ 9.2k | ≈80 always | 1mo ago |
| AgentPhone AgentPhone-AI/agentphone-mcp · MCP server Both about phone | 59 | ★ 125 | not measured | 6d ago |
| phone-ui-demos Unclecheng-li/AI_Animation · Skill Both about phone | 65 | ★ 1.6k | ≈68 always | 1mo ago |
| harness-creator walkinglabs/learn-harness-engineering · Skill Both about harness | 86 | ★ 21k | ≈27 always | 1mo ago |