
IOS Simulator Preview
Show a live iOS Simulator in the dashboard's Browser side panel while building or...
Install
npx skills add kirodotdev/KiroCrew --skill ios-simulator-preview -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- kirodotdev/KiroCrew4.7k
- Category
- Testing
- Updated
- 3d ago
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 1,752 tokens
- Runs scripts
- Yes, review before use
What it does
Show a live iOS Simulator in the dashboard's Browser side panel while building or testing an iOS app. Use when the user asks to preview an iOS/SwiftUI app, run an app in the simulator, "show me the app", test in the iOS simulator, or watch you drive an iOS app. macOS + Xcode only.
iOS Simulator Preview (Browser-tab mirror)
Mirror a running iOS Simulator into KiroCrew's Browser side panel so the user watches the app, and you driving it, live next to the chat.
Architecture, end to end, all local: simulator → serve-sim (loopback HTTP)
→ the kirocrew:preview marker → Browser panel iframe. Nothing leaves the
machine. This mirrors OpenAI Codex's ios-simulator-browser approach (same
serve-sim mirror) with one substitution: Codex opens the URL in its in-app
browser via a browser tool, while KiroCrew's panel is driven by the hidden
preview marker (see the web-preview skill).
Requirements
- macOS only. Apple's simulator runs nowhere else. On Linux/Windows say so and stop, do not attempt a fallback.
- Xcode with an iOS platform installed, and the license accepted.
xcrun simctl list devicesmust work. - Node/
npx. The launcher pins--registry=https://registry.npmjs.orgbecause a local npm config may default to an authenticated internal registry (which 401s on a public package). Theserve-simversion is pinned in the launcher (SERVE_SIM_VERSION) rather than floated, so a start never auto-executes an unreviewed release; bumping it is a deliberate change. - First
starttakes a couple of minutes (npx download + device boot); the launcher gives up after 240s with a JSON error naming the log. Later starts are fast.
Resolve the launcher path once
SKILL_DIR="${KIROCREW_HOME:-$HOME/.kiro/crew}/skills/ios-simulator-preview"
SKILL_DIR="${SKILL_DIR/#\~/$HOME}" # a literal ~ in KIROCREW_HOME is not expanded inside quotes
Call the script by path; do not cd into the skill folder.


