# ShawnPana/phone-harness

> A tool that lets an AI agent control a real phone: see the screen, tap, type, and read the result. Works with iPhone via iPhone Mirroring on Mac, Android via adb, and cloud phones.

- Magnitude: 4.3 out of 10 — Breakout
- Stars: 3,629 total · +11 stars measured 2026-10-15, 11:22–12:57 UTC, ≈ 59 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: AI agents · Language: Python · License: MIT · Created: 2026-08-07 · Last push: 2026-10-14
- GitHub: https://github.com/ShawnPana/phone-harness · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/ShawnPana/phone-harness

## Useful for

- Connect Claude Code or Codex to a real phone to automate in-app actions
- Run an agent that opens an app, finds text on screen, and taps it
- Rent a cloud Android or iPhone when no physical device is at hand

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-15 (UTC), 11:22–12:57: 3618 → 3629 stars (+11). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +59 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Over the last two days the pace is 11× that of the previous week and a half.
- Elevated gains were measured on the last 2 completed UTC days in a row. Continued growth is not guaranteed.
- GitHub Trending Python today: #15, +203 stars.
- About 16 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 367
- Issues and pull requests: 130
- Watchers: 18
- Average over the last week: 66 per day
- Usual pace: 15 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 5
- Latest release: 0.3.2 (2026-10-12)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-16 … 2026-10-15: 8, 15, 6, 21, 24, 30, 28, 16, 28, 13, 11, 14, 15, 31, 17, 7, 9, 5, 11, 15, 6, 4, 21, 17, 13, 13, 19, 127, 216, 11

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending Python today: #15, +203 stars

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Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-15 13:16 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.