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name: phone
description: Use when the user asks to text or message someone from their iPhone, read or check something on their phone, or control their iPhone — e.g. "text my dad ...", "send this to Mom", "summarize this and text it to X", "what's on my phone", "open <app> on my phone", "organize my home screen", "what apps do I have installed".
---

# Drive the user's iPhone (phone-claude)

The user's real iPhone is connected to this PC over USB and fully controllable.
Harness lives at `C:\Projects\phone-claude`. Works from any project directory.

## Run

```bash
cd C:/Projects/phone-claude && ./phone-harness.cmd <<'PY'
send_message("Mom", "hi")
PY
```

Bare `phone-harness` is NOT on the bash PATH — always use `./phone-harness.cmd`
from the repo root. Helpers are pre-imported; print() output comes back to you.

**REQUIRED SUB-SKILL:** read `phone-gotchas` before your first tap. It holds the
coordinate traps, the batching tool, and what the harness genuinely cannot do —
none of which you can learn by looking at the screen.

## Helpers

| Helper | Use |
|---|---|
| `send_message(contact, text)` | full Messages send; `contact` = conversation name in the Messages list |
| `read_messages(contact, limit=20)` | read a thread back: `[{text, from_me}, ...]`, oldest first |
| `ocr()` | all visible text with center coords (real UI tree, exact). Elements are `{"text","x","y","type","rect"}` — the key is **`text`**, and `full=` is MCP-only |
| `find_text(t)` / `tap_text(t)` | locate / tap by visible text |
| `wait_for_text(t, timeout=10)` | poll until text appears; returns the element (with x/y) |
| `tap(x, y)` / `swipe(x1,y1,x2,y2,secs)` / `scroll("down")` | raw gestures, units = points |
| `long_press(x, y, seconds=1.0)` | context menus and other hidden affordances |
| `act([{"tool":n,"args":{...}}, ...])` | several tools in ONE round trip; screenshot excluded |
| `type_text(t)` | type into the focused field (tap the field first) |
| `open_app("messages")` | friendly name or bundle id |
| `current_app()` / `wait_for_app(bundle_id)` | frontmost app / wait until one is |
| `screenshot("out.png")` / `press_home()` / `wait_stable()` / `unlock()` | utilities |

**Not in the table, and you will want them:**

- **There is no `drag()`.** Moving Home Screen icons means jiggle mode plus a
  hand-built `client()._pointer_actions` gesture, and it fails *silently* if you
  skip jiggle mode. Recipe and the page-hiding flow are in `phone-gotchas`.
  Same-page drags and folder-creation (drop icon A on icon B) are verified;
  **cross-page drags are not** and degrade into plain swipes that look like
  progress.
- **"Organise my Home Screen" is not a quick job.** ~160 icons is hours of drags
  and can strand half-sorted. Hiding pages via the `PageIndicator` editor is
  ~10 taps, reversible, and does most of the work — read the costing section in
  `phone-gotchas` before you promise anything.
- **Full installed-app inventory:** `ios apps --list` (go-ios, on PATH as
  `ios.EXE`). Instant, and far cheaper than sweeping Home Screen pages.

## Rules

- **Sending to real people:** send exactly what the user asked. If you composed the
  content yourself (a summary, a draft), include the sent text verbatim in your reply.
  Ask first only when the recipient or content is genuinely ambiguous.
- Messages compose field is labeled **"Message"**, NOT "iMessage" — old message
  bubbles carry "iMessage" in their labels; searching for it taps the wrong thing.
- `send_message`/`read_messages` handle Messages resuming mid-thread, find the
  thread via Messages SEARCH (type the name, tap the Conversations result), and
  verify the opened thread's header before acting — a wrong or unverifiable
  match raises instead of guessing.
- MCP alternative: the `sidetap` MCP server is registered at user scope on
  this machine — new sessions get all helpers as native `mcp__sidetap__*`
  tools (no Python piping). Prefer those tools when they are available.
- Anything fails to connect → `./phone-harness.cmd doctor` from the repo root.
  Never guess at connection problems. Common: free-Apple-ID signing expires every
  7 days → `phone-harness fix-input`, then the USER clicks Start in Sideloadly.
- Phone must be unlocked for bring-up; `unlock()` types PHONE_PASSCODE from .env if set.
- Human-watchable live viewer: http://127.0.0.1:8770 (start with `python launch.py`).