phoneuse SKILL.md skillA

phoneuse from lxe/phoneuse is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add lxe/phoneuse/phoneuse@git:20261108.a8f3378

Pins git:20261108.a8f3378 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: lxe/phoneuse
Path: skill/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 5
Latest version: git:20261108.a8f3378, committed Nov 8, 2026
First version recorded: Nov 7, 2026
Size: 10,009 bytes
Repository stars: 186
License: MIT

See and operate the user's iPhone from this Linux PC with the `phoneuse` CLI (AirPlay mirror for the screen, Bluetooth mouse/keyboard for input). Use when a task needs the iPhone: open or use an app, read what is on the phone screen, tap, type, swipe, check a notification, change a phone setting, or test something on the device. Also use when the mirror or the Bluetooth link needs starting or fixing.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Operating the iPhone with phoneuse

The `phoneuse` command drives a real, unmodified iPhone. Its screen arrives over
AirPlay as a mirror window on this PC and as a live page at
http://localhost:8777, and input goes in as a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard.
Everything an agent does is a `phoneuse` subcommand; run `phoneuse --help` for
the full list.

## Before acting

1. Run `phoneuse status`. You need `HID service: active`, `connected=True`, and
   `Mirror window: ... showing the phone`.
2. No mirror window: check whether `phoneuse up` is running. If it isn't, start it
   somewhere the user can see it (a terminal or tmux window they use), not hidden in
   the background. "not mirroring" (or no window): ask the user to start Screen
   Mirroring to "PhoneUse" from the iPhone's Control Center. You can't start
   mirroring from the PC, and every input command refuses until it runs.
3. **Show the user the phone** before your first action, so they can watch what
   you do: open http://localhost:8777 (`phoneuse view --print` prints the address).
   If you have a browser of your own, such as a built-in browser pane, open it
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add lxe/phoneuse/phoneuse@sha256:808133332476e709

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261108.a8f3378, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_curmwjknwrhdpw6j.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_curmwjknwrhdpw6j)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Nov 7, 2026 and Nov 8, 2026, more than one a day.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261108.a8f3378 latest	2026-11-08	a8f3378	10,009 B	A	view · diff
git:20261107.84b908d	2026-11-07	84b908d	9,742 B	A	view · diff
git:20261107.6bce214	2026-11-07	6bce214	9,563 B	A	view · diff
git:20261107.e1e3251	2026-11-07	e1e3251	9,334 B	A	view · diff
git:20261107.238073d	2026-11-07	238073d	8,964 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10009 bytes)
pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
pass: No credential-shaped string
pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
pass: No text hidden with inline styles
pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
pass: No link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

lxe/phoneuse · 186 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_curmwjknwrhdpw6j
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=lxe/phoneuse/phoneuse
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/808133332476e709cf6e9433f6c936e2588bfe592ae7470a6dec67b9dd39e61e

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