agent-device: A CLI Tool for Controlling Mobile Phones with AI Agents

A new open-source tool lets AI agents operate iOS and Android devices programmatically — mobile automation's missing piece.

@peterfriese shared agent-device, a CLI tool that enables AI agents to control iOS and Android devices. The tool bridges a significant gap in the agentic toolchain: while agents can browse the web and call APIs, controlling native mobile apps has required fragile screen-scraping approaches or platform-specific automation frameworks that weren't designed for AI.

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