{"slug": "agent-device-shipped-an-update", "title": "agent-device shipped an update", "summary": "Callstack's open-source agent-device project, which gives coding agents a live feedback loop on real apps via a CLI, built-in MCP server and typed Node.js API, has 4.8k stars on GitHub and was last updated in September 2026. The tool covers iOS, Android and HarmonyOS simulators, emulators and devices plus tvOS, Android TV, web, macOS and Linux, letting agents read token-efficient accessibility snapshots, act through refs and selectors, save evidence for review, and coordinate device access across parallel agent worktrees. It is distributed under the MIT license and installed with \"npm install -g agent-device@latest\".", "body_md": "# agent-device\n\nLet coding agents run, inspect and verify mobile, TV, web and desktop apps through a CLI or MCP.\n\n## Sources and review\n\nChecked against public documentation on . Suitability guidance is our editorial judgment; this is not a performance benchmark or an endorsement.\n\nCoding agents that should verify their changes in the running mobile app, not only in unit tests.\n\n## About agent-device\n\nagent-device from Callstack gives coding agents a live feedback loop on real apps: iOS, Android and HarmonyOS simulators, emulators and devices, plus tvOS, Android TV, web, macOS and Linux. Agents read token-efficient accessibility snapshots, act through refs and selectors and save evidence for review, and it coordinates device access across parallel agent worktrees. It ships as a CLI, a built-in MCP server and a typed Node.js API.\n\nagent-device is an open-source project written primarily in TypeScript, with 4.8k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026.\n\n```\nnpm install -g agent-device@latest\n```\n\n**Make your product part of the discovery.** Explore advertising\n## agent-device vs. the alternatives\n\n[All 163 alternatives →](https://agentsearchengine.app/alternatives/agent-device)\n\n| Record | Stars | Pricing |  |  | \n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| agent-devicethis listing | 4.8k | TypeScript | MIT | Open source | \n| [MCP Reference Servers](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/mcp-reference-servers) | 91k | TypeScript | MIT AND Apache-2.0 | Open source | \n| [context7](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/context7) | 62k | TypeScript | MIT | Open source | \n| [chrome-devtools-mcp](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/chrome-devtools-mcp) | 53k | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | Open source | \n| [Playwright MCP](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/playwright-mcp) | 38k | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | Open source | \n| [github-mcp-server](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/github-mcp-server) | 33k | Go | MIT | Open source |", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agent-device-shipped-an-update", "canonical_source": "https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/agent-device", "published_at": "2026-09-23 08:26:35+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-28 15:21:27.093669+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "developer-tools", "agent-protocols", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["agent-device", "Callstack", "GitHub", "MCP Reference Servers", "context7", "chrome-devtools-mcp", "Playwright MCP", "github-mcp-server"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agent-device-shipped-an-update", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agent-device-shipped-an-update.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agent-device-shipped-an-update.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agent-device-shipped-an-update.jsonld"}}