ZSeven-W/dsh-ios
A live iOS Simulator or USB-connected iPhone inside the conversation: 22 agent tools for booting, building, driving the UI by accessibility identity or OCR text, list-row actions and SwiftUI preview hot reload, plus a streaming sidebar panel you can tap and drag on.
Install
via npm
Resolves a published tarball rather than cloning the repository, and installs without any extra setup. Swap `web` for your profile name if you run another one.
via GitHub · npm package
Installing from GitHub runs the project's build script, which pnpm blocks until you allowlist it — run the command once and pnpm prints the exact key to add under `allowBuilds` in ~/.dsh/profiles/web/pnpm-workspace.yaml.
The desktop app keeps its own profile, desktop, and only the dsh command it ships may change it — the npm-installed dsh refuses that profile. Install the command from the app menu (Manage dsh Command…), open Desktop once, quit it fully, run the line below, then reopen Desktop.
via npm
Resolves a published tarball rather than cloning the repository.
via GitHub · npm package
Installing from GitHub runs the project's build script, which pnpm blocks until you allowlist it — run the command once and pnpm prints the exact key to add under `allowBuilds` in ~/.dsh/profiles/desktop/pnpm-workspace.yaml.
Our install check ran in a web profile on npm's dsh, not in the desktop app.
What happened when we ran it
Installed cleanly when we ran it
Every command here is run in a throwaway container against a clean profile, and the result is whatever the harness recorded — not a guess from the source. Last run 8d agoon DeepSeek Harness 0.2.2-rc.1.
Show it in your README
For maintainers: the badge serves this listing's latest sandbox verdict, so a re-run updates it on its own — and it links readers to the full result here.
Due diligence
Security
No build script was blocked in our run.
Source: our sandbox install on DeepSeek Harness 0.2.2-rc.1, 8d ago.
package.json declares no preinstall, install or postinstall script.
Source: package.json on GitHub, read at our last sync. prepare is not recorded; it runs only on a GitHub install, and shows up under build scripts when pnpm blocks it.
shell commands (bash, exec, spawn …)
Source: a keyword match on the README — a hint about what the plugin touches, not an analysis of its code.
Not an audit. These are the record of one install and two text scans; nobody has read this plugin's code on your behalf. Plugins run with your agent's permissions.
What it is — Provides live iOS Simulator and USB iPhone integration inside DeepSeek Harness conversations.
Who it is for — Developers testing iOS apps with Xcode or SwiftUI who need real-time UI driving can use this plugin. Users focused exclusively on web or backend development will not benefit from its iOS-specific tools.
Watch out — Sandbox testing confirmed successful registration in a fresh profile. No obvious issues were detected.
The verdict — I would install it to enable direct interaction with iOS devices in the conversation, but only on macOS hosts where full tool functionality is available.
Generated by grok-4.6, and a starting point rather than a verdict. Where it says a plugin installs or does not, that is from a real run in a clean profile — everything else is read off the repository. Trust the source over this.
dsh-ios is a DeepSeek Harness plugin that puts an interactive iOS Simulator, or a USB-connected iPhone, inside an agent conversation. DeepSeek Harness loads dsh-ios as a set of 22 tools for discovering and booting devices, building and running Xcode projects or Swift packages, taking screenshots, driving interfaces, reading logs, and inspecting processes, backtraces and leaks.
For simulator devices, dsh-ios uses simctl and serve-sim; for physical devices it builds and launches WebDriverAgent, then tunnels its control and MJPEG screen ports over loopback. Accessibility trees support taps by label or identifier, while Vision OCR supports finding and tapping visible text. List-row tools work from accessibility snapshots and verify an action through counter changes. SwiftUI previews can be built into a disposable host app and hot-swapped into a running simulator. The live stream reaches the sidebar through signed, expiring /_dsh/dsh-ios/* routes rather than image blocks.
This is intended for agents testing or debugging iOS interfaces where semantic interaction and a live device view matter. The plugin reaches local macOS development and device tooling, including build, launch, simulator, logging and USB device operations, so it runs with those permissions. It is the wrong choice on a non-macOS host, where the tools remain registered but fail, or when no iOS Simulator, Xcode project, Swift package or connected device is available. A real iPhone must be unlocked.
DeepSeek Harness loads dsh-ios from the @zseven-w/dsh-ios package. The README does not document user-facing configuration keys or a configuration file. Device selection is normally supplied to tools as a udid; the value may be a simulator UDID, simulator name, or physical-device UDID.
The tools return plain JSON. ios_sim_devices lists available simulators and connected iPhones, including state and device details. ios_sim_boot starts a simulator and its serve-sim stream; ios_sim_shutdown stops it. ios_sim_screenshot captures a PNG summary, and ios_sim_interact accepts taps, typing, hardware-button actions, scrolling and touch gestures.
UI inspection uses ios_sim_ui_tree and ios_sim_tap_element for accessibility identity, or ios_sim_find_text and ios_sim_tap_text for OCR text. ios_sim_ui_rows extracts indexed list or feed rows, while ios_sim_tap_row taps within a row and checks the expected counter change. Other documented tool groups cover building and running, unified logs, SwiftUI preview hot reload, processes, backtraces, leaks and app information. ios_real_start_wda starts WebDriverAgent for a USB-connected iPhone.
The simulator tools require macOS and depend on simctl and serve-sim. DeepSeek Harness keeps the tools registered on other hosts, but they return an explanatory error; ios_sim_preview with status instead reports { running: false }. A physical iPhone is connected over USB, must be unlocked, and uses WebDriverAgent with loopback tunnels.
Simulator streams use loopback-only routes under /_dsh/dsh-ios/*. The routes check the loopback peer, loopback Host, and Fetch-Metadata or Origin headers; HMAC capabilities expire within 10 minutes. The browser receives visual data through signed routes and presentationMeta, not image blocks. The live panel supports tapping, dragging, Home, rotation, screenshots and resizing. ios_sim_preview builds a disposable host app outside the package and hot-swaps preview edits into the running simulator.
Written from the project's own documentation and kept in sync with it. Where the two disagree, the source is authoritative — read the README on GitHub
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