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Sim Pane

Puts the iOS Simulator beside your Claude Code session: a live screenshot, dark mode and text size switches, your app's own logs, and tools that let Claude see…

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v0.1.3MITupdated 2026-10-09griches/simpane
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claude · ~/work/app · simpane
│ ┃ Simulator ✕ › fix the failing auth test and add an audit log call │ ┃ No simulator is booted. │ ┃ r: Look again ⏺ Read(src/auth.ts) │ ⎿ Read 6 lines │ ⏺ Update(src/auth.ts) │ ⎿ Added 2 lines, removed 1 line │ ⏺ Bash(bun test) │ ⎿ 3 pass, 1 fail │ │ ● Done. refresh now rejects expired claims and logs an audit event. │ │ ✻ Worked for 42s · done 4:20 PM │ │ › /simpane │ ⎿ simpane: Simulator pane opened. No simulator is booted. │ │ ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── › ? for shortcuts

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simpane

The iOS Simulator beside your Claude Code session, and a way for Claude to see it.

simpane is a Claude Code mod for people building iOS apps. It puts a live picture of the booted simulator in a pane, with switches for dark mode and text size and your app's own log lines. It also gives Claude three tools, so that after changing a view it can take a screenshot and look, read what your app logged, or flip to dark mode and check again, without asking you to describe the screen.

Install

Needs macOS with Xcode, and Claude Code 2.1.295 or later.

/plugin marketplace add griches/simpane
/plugin install simpane@simpane

Or from a shell:

claude plugin marketplace add griches/simpane
claude plugin install simpane@simpane

Run /reload-plugins in a session that is already open.

The pane

/simpane opens it. It also opens by itself when Claude installs or launches an app, or builds for a simulator.

iPhone 17
iOS 27.0 · light · text large
┌──────────────┐
│              │
│   (screen)   │
│              │
└──────────────┘
Tideline · mobi.bouncingball.Tideline

r: Refresh  l: Live on  a: Dark  u: Text +  d: Text −
s: Send to Claude  g: Logs
KeyWhat it does
rTakes a fresh screenshot
lLive on or off. On, the picture is retaken every two seconds while the pane is on screen
aSwitches the simulator between light and dark
u dSteps Dynamic Type up or down, through the accessibility sizes
sPuts the screenshot's path in your prompt, to ask Claude about what you are looking at
gShows the last minute of your app's own log
nMoves to the next simulator, when more than one is booted

With no simulator booted, the pane offers the last three you used, to boot with one key.

The picture is drawn in terminals that show images: Ghostty, kitty and others with the kitty graphics protocol. Elsewhere, and in the desktop app, the pane shows the device, the app and the screenshot's path, and Claude's tools work the same.

What Claude can do

ToolWhat it does
screenshotTakes a screenshot and answers its path, with the device, appearance, text size and the app in front. Claude reads the file to see the screen
logsAnswers what your app logged lately: print, NSLog, os_log and Logger output and every error or fault in its process. System chatter is removed and repeats are folded. Takes seconds, contains and bundleId
setSets light or dark appearance, a Dynamic Type size, a clean 9:41 status bar, or opens a URL or deep link. Answers a fresh screenshot

In a folder with an Xcode project, a workspace or a Package.swift, Claude has the tools from the first prompt. In any other folder they are declared the first time a booted simulator is seen, so a session that never touches iOS pays nothing for them.

Things to ask once it is installed:

  • "Build and run, then check the settings screen looks right in dark mode."
  • "Step the text size up to the largest accessibility size and tell me what truncates."
  • "Launch the app and tell me why the list is empty. Check the logs."
  • "Give me a clean status bar and take the store screenshots."

The log filter

A simulator's log for one app runs to thousands of lines a minute, nearly all of it the system talking to itself. simpane keeps:

  • Lines your app wrote under its own subsystem, or with none.
  • Every error and fault in your app's process, whoever logged it.

It drops activity markers and Apple-subsystem chatter, folds identical lines that follow each other into one with a count, and cuts long lines. Claude gets the last 150 lines at most.

Settings

Both under simpane in /config.

SettingDefaultWhat it does
Live refresh, in seconds21, 5, or off for refresh on demand only
Open the paneonOff: only on /simpane

Limits

  • Simulators only, not devices.
  • It shows the screen and changes settings. It does not tap, type or scroll: simctl has no way to.
  • Each refresh runs simctl io screenshot, which takes about a second, so Live is a slideshow and not video.
  • The app in front is taken to be the most recently launched app that you installed. Pass bundleId to the logs tool to name another.

Works well with

xcpane reads xcodebuild output into a pane of errors. With both, Claude builds, sees why it failed, fixes it, runs it and looks at the result.

Privacy

simpane makes no network requests and calls no model. It runs xcrun simctl and sips on your Mac and writes screenshots to your temporary folder.

Development

claude plugin validate .
claude plugin test .
claude --plugin-dir .

Licence

MIT. See LICENSE.

Source 4 files
hooks/register.tsx 558 lines
1import { atom, read, update } from 'claude-code'
2import type { EngineInterface, Register } from 'claude-code'
3
4import type { App, Device, Screen, Shot } from '../types'
5import { filterLog, fit, parseApp, parseDevices, parseSize, readCommand } from './simctl'
6
7const PANE = 'simpane'
8const TITLE = 'Simulator'
9const COMMAND = 'simpane'
10// Patterns, since the mod's own tools are not among the tools the type declarations list.
11const SCREENSHOT_TOOL = /^mcp__simpane__screenshot$/
12const LOGS_TOOL = /^mcp__simpane__logs$/
13const SET_TOOL = /^mcp__simpane__set$/
14const XCODE_MCP_TOOL = /^mcp__.+__(BuildProject|RunAllTests|RunSomeTests)$/
15/** The longest side, in pixels, of the copy the pane draws and Claude reads. */
16const SMALL_SIDE = 1000
17const SETTLE_MS = 1500
18const PANE_LOG_LINES = 14
19const TOOL_LOG_LINES = 150
20const APPLE_PROJECT = /\.(xcodeproj|xcworkspace)$|^(Package\.swift|project\.yml|Project\.swift|Podfile)$/
21const TEXT_SIZES = [
22  'extra-small', 'small', 'medium', 'large', 'extra-large', 'extra-extra-large', 'extra-extra-extra-large',
23  'accessibility-medium', 'accessibility-large', 'accessibility-extra-large', 'accessibility-extra-extra-large', 'accessibility-extra-extra-extra-large',
24]
25const EMPTY: Screen = { status: 'unknown', device: null, devices: [], candidates: [], shot: null, appearance: '', textSize: '', app: null }
26
27const screen = atom({ plugin: 'simpane', key: 'screen' } as const, EMPTY)
28const isLive = atom({ plugin: 'simpane', key: 'isLive' } as const, true)
29const logs = atom({ plugin: 'simpane', key: 'logs' } as const, null)
30const isBusy = atom({ plugin: 'simpane', key: 'isBusy' } as const, false)
31
32/** What cannot be kept in `$.state`: which simulator and app the person or Claude last pointed at. */
33const chosen = { udid: null as string | null, bundleId: null as string | null, hasTools: false }
34
35/** Runs a command and answers its output, or null when it failed or could not start. */
36const run = async ($: EngineInterface, argv: readonly string[], timeoutMs = 20_000) => {
37  try {
38    const ran = await $.process.run(argv, { timeoutMs })
39
40    return ran.exitCode === 0 ? ran.stdout : null
41  } catch {
42    return null
43  }
44}
45
46const simctl = ($: EngineInterface, args: readonly string[], timeoutMs?: number) => run($, ['xcrun', 'simctl', ...args], timeoutMs)
47
48const folder = async ($: EngineInterface) => `${((await $.env.get('TMPDIR')) ?? '/tmp').replace(/\/+$/, '')}/simpane`
49
50/** Takes a screenshot of `device` and makes the scaled copy the pane draws. */
51const capture = async ($: EngineInterface, device: Device): Promise<Shot | null> => {
52  const dir = await folder($)
53  const path = `${dir}/${device.udid}.png`
54  const smallPath = `${dir}/${device.udid}-small.png`
55  await run($, ['/bin/mkdir', '-p', dir])
56
57  if ((await simctl($, ['io', device.udid, 'screenshot', '--type=png', path])) === null) {
58    return null
59  }
60
61  const scaled = await run($, ['/usr/bin/sips', '-Z', String(SMALL_SIDE), path, '--out', smallPath])
62  const size = parseSize((await run($, ['/usr/bin/sips', '-g', 'pixelWidth', '-g', 'pixelHeight', path])) ?? '')
63  const at = await $.clock.now()
64
65  return { path, smallPath: scaled === null ? path : smallPath, width: size?.width ?? 0, height: size?.height ?? 0, at, generation: at }
66}
67
68const appOf = async ($: EngineInterface, device: Device): Promise<App | null> => {
69  const [running, installed] = await Promise.all([
70    simctl($, ['spawn', device.udid, 'launchctl', 'list']),
71    run($, ['/bin/sh', '-c', 'xcrun simctl listapps "$1" | plutil -convert json -o - -', 'sh', device.udid]),
72  ])
73
74  return running === null || installed === null ? null : parseApp(running, installed, chosen.bundleId)
75}
76
77/** Declares the tools Claude can use, the first time a simulator is seen: a session with none pays nothing for them. */
78const offerTools = async ($: EngineInterface) => {
79  if (chosen.hasTools) {
80    return
81  }
82
83  chosen.hasTools = true
84  await $.tool.register({
85    name: 'screenshot',
86    description:
87      'Takes a screenshot of the booted iOS Simulator and answers the path of the PNG, with the device, its appearance, text size and the app in front. Read the file at that path to see the screen. Call it after a change to the UI to check how it looks, instead of asking the user to describe it.',
88    inputSchema: {
89      type: 'object',
90      properties: { size: { type: 'string', enum: ['small', 'full'], description: 'small (default): scaled to 1000 pixels, cheaper to read. full: the device resolution.' } },
91    },
92    isDeferred: false,
93  })
94  await $.tool.register({
95    name: 'logs',
96    description:
97      "Answers what the app in front of the booted iOS Simulator logged lately: its own messages (print, NSLog, os_log, Logger) and every error or fault in its process, with system chatter removed and repeats folded. Call it when the app misbehaves or crashes, instead of reading the device's whole log.",
98    inputSchema: {
99      type: 'object',
100      properties: {
101        seconds: { type: 'number', description: 'How far back to read, 60 by default, 600 at most.' },
102        contains: { type: 'string', description: 'Keep only lines containing this text, compared without case.' },
103        bundleId: { type: 'string', description: "The app's bundle identifier; the app in front by default." },
104      },
105    },
106  })
107  await $.tool.register({
108    name: 'set',
109    description:
110      'Changes how the booted iOS Simulator looks, then answers a fresh screenshot path: light or dark appearance, Dynamic Type text size, a clean 9:41 status bar for store screenshots, or a URL to open (a deep link or a web page). Use it to check a screen in dark mode or at accessibility text sizes.',
111    inputSchema: {
112      type: 'object',
113      properties: {
114        appearance: { type: 'string', enum: ['light', 'dark'] },
115        textSize: { type: 'string', enum: [...TEXT_SIZES, 'increment', 'decrement'] },
116        statusBar: { type: 'string', enum: ['clean', 'default'] },
117        openUrl: { type: 'string' },
118      },
119    },
120  })
121}
122
123/** Reads the simulators and, when one is booted, its screen, its settings and the app in front. */
124const look = async ($: EngineInterface): Promise<Screen> => {
125  const listed = await simctl($, ['list', 'devices', '-j'])
126
127  if (listed === null) {
128    const none: Screen = { ...EMPTY, status: 'unavailable' }
129    await update($, screen, () => none)
130
131    return none
132  }
133
134  const devices = parseDevices(listed, 'Booted')
135  const device = devices.find(one => one.udid === chosen.udid) ?? devices[0]
136
137  if (device === undefined) {
138    const none: Screen = { ...EMPTY, status: 'absent', candidates: parseDevices(listed, 'Shutdown').filter(one => /^i(Phone|Pad)/.test(one.name)).slice(0, 3) }
139    await update($, screen, () => none)
140
141    return none
142  }
143
144  chosen.udid = device.udid
145  await offerTools($).catch(() => undefined)
146  const [shot, appearance, textSize, app] = await Promise.all([
147    capture($, device),
148    simctl($, ['ui', device.udid, 'appearance']),
149    simctl($, ['ui', device.udid, 'content_size']),
150    appOf($, device),
151  ])
152  const seen: Screen = {
153    status: 'ready',
154    device,
155    devices,
156    candidates: [],
157    shot,
158    appearance: (appearance ?? '').trim(),
159    textSize: (textSize ?? '').trim(),
160    app,
161  }
162  await update($, screen, () => seen)
163
164  return seen
165}
166
167/** `look`, one at a time: a refresh asked for while one runs is dropped, since that one is already fresh. */
168const refresh = async ($: EngineInterface): Promise<Screen> => {
169  if (await read($, isBusy)) {
170    return read($, screen)
171  }
172
173  await update($, isBusy, () => true)
174
175  try {
176    return await look($)
177  } finally {
178    await update($, isBusy, () => false).catch(() => undefined)
179  }
180}
181
182const appLogs = async ($: EngineInterface, device: Device, app: App, seconds: number, contains: string | null) => {
183  const predicate = `process == "${app.executable.replace(/["\\]/g, '')}" AND (NOT subsystem BEGINSWITH "com.apple." OR messageType == error OR messageType == fault)`
184  const raw = await simctl($, ['spawn', device.udid, 'log', 'show', '--last', `${seconds}s`, '--style', 'compact', '--predicate', predicate], 60_000)
185
186  return raw === null ? null : filterLog(raw, app.executable, contains)
187}
188
189/** `iPhone 17 · iOS 27.0 · dark · text large`. */
190const headline = (seen: Screen) =>
191  [seen.device?.name, seen.device?.runtime, seen.appearance, seen.textSize === '' ? '' : `text ${seen.textSize}`].filter(Boolean).join(' · ')
192
193/** What a tool answers after looking: where the picture is and what is on screen. */
194const described = (seen: Screen, size: 'small' | 'full') => {
195  if (seen.status === 'unavailable') {
196    return "simpane could not run `xcrun simctl`: it needs macOS with Xcode's command line tools."
197  }
198
199  if (seen.device === null) {
200    return 'No simulator is booted. Boot one with `xcrun simctl boot <device>` or from Xcode, then call this again.'
201  }
202
203  if (seen.shot === null) {
204    return `${headline(seen)}: the screenshot could not be taken.`
205  }
206
207  const path = size === 'full' ? seen.shot.path : seen.shot.smallPath
208  const front = seen.app === null ? 'None of your own apps is running.' : `App in front: ${seen.app.name} (${seen.app.bundleId}).`
209
210  return [`${headline(seen)}. ${front}`, `Screenshot (${seen.shot.width}×${seen.shot.height} on the device): ${path}`, 'Read that file to see the screen.'].join('\n')
211}
212
213const openPane = ($: EngineInterface) => {
214  void $.ui.open({ id: PANE, title: TITLE, columns: 46 }).catch(() => undefined)
215}
216
217/** The timer that keeps the picture fresh, while there is one. */
218const timer: { ticker: { cancel: () => void } | null } = { ticker: null }
219
220const unwatch = () => {
221  timer.ticker?.cancel()
222  timer.ticker = null
223}
224
225/** Keeps the picture fresh while the pane is on screen and Live is on. */
226const watch = ($: EngineInterface, every: number) => {
227  if (timer.ticker !== null || every === 0) {
228    return
229  }
230
231  timer.ticker = $.clock.every(every, () => {
232    void (async () => {
233      const [pane] = (await $.ui.panes()).filter(one => one.id === PANE)
234
235      if (pane === undefined) {
236        unwatch()
237      } else if (pane.isShown && pane.isPlaced && (await read($, isLive))) {
238        await refresh($)
239      }
240    })().catch(() => undefined)
241  })
242}
243
244export const register: Register = (on, options) => {
245  const every = options.refresh === 'off' ? 0 : Number(options.refresh ?? 2) * 1000 || 2000
246  const autoOpen = options.autoOpen !== false
247  on('session.start', async ($, e, next) => {
248    await $.command.register({
249      name: COMMAND,
250      description: 'Show the iOS Simulator beside the session: live screenshot, appearance, text size, app logs',
251    })
252    // In an Apple project Claude has the tools from the first prompt; elsewhere they wait until a simulator is seen.
253    const entries = await $.fs.list().catch(() => [])
254
255    if (entries.some(one => APPLE_PROJECT.test(one.name))) {
256      await offerTools($).catch(() => undefined)
257    }
258
259    // A pane left open across a reload keeps being refreshed.
260    const panes = await $.ui.panes().catch(() => [])
261
262    if (panes.some(one => one.id === PANE)) {
263      watch($, every)
264    }
265
266    return next(e)
267  })
268
269  on('command.run', { command: COMMAND }, async ($, e) => {
270    await $.ui.open({ id: PANE, title: TITLE, columns: 46 })
271    const seen = await refresh($)
272    watch($, every)
273
274    if (seen.status === 'unavailable') {
275      return { text: "simpane needs macOS with Xcode's command line tools: `xcrun simctl` could not be run." }
276    }
277
278    return { text: seen.device === null ? 'Simulator pane opened. No simulator is booted.' : `Simulator pane opened: ${headline(seen)}.` }
279  })
280
281  on('ui.close', { id: PANE }, ($, e, next) => {
282    unwatch()
283
284    return next(e)
285  })
286
287  on('tool.call', { tool: SCREENSHOT_TOOL }, async ($, e) => {
288    const size = (e as { size?: unknown }).size === 'full' ? 'full' : 'small'
289
290    return { result: described(await look($), size) }
291  })
292
293  on('tool.call', { tool: LOGS_TOOL }, async ($, e) => {
294    const asked = e as { seconds?: unknown; contains?: unknown; bundleId?: unknown }
295    const seconds = Math.min(600, Math.max(5, typeof asked.seconds === 'number' && Number.isFinite(asked.seconds) ? Math.round(asked.seconds) : 60))
296
297    if (typeof asked.bundleId === 'string' && asked.bundleId !== '') {
298      chosen.bundleId = asked.bundleId
299    }
300
301    const seen = await look($)
302
303    if (seen.device === null) {
304      return { result: described(seen, 'small') }
305    }
306
307    if (seen.app === null) {
308      return { result: 'None of your own apps is running in the simulator, so there is no app log to read. Launch the app, then call this again.' }
309    }
310
311    const lines = await appLogs($, seen.device, seen.app, seconds, typeof asked.contains === 'string' && asked.contains !== '' ? asked.contains : null)
312
313    if (lines === null) {
314      return { result: `The log of ${seen.device.name} could not be read.` }
315    }
316
317    const shown = lines.slice(-TOOL_LOG_LINES)
318    const head = `${seen.app.name} (${seen.app.bundleId}) on ${seen.device.name}, last ${seconds}s: ${lines.length} line${lines.length === 1 ? '' : 's'} of its own${lines.length > shown.length ? `, the last ${shown.length} shown` : ''}.`
319
320    return { result: lines.length === 0 ? `${head} Nothing logged by the app and no errors in its process.` : [head, ...shown].join('\n') }
321  })
322
323  on('tool.call', { tool: SET_TOOL }, async ($, e) => {
324    const asked = e as { appearance?: unknown; textSize?: unknown; statusBar?: unknown; openUrl?: unknown }
325    const before = await read($, screen)
326    const device = before.device ?? (await look($)).device
327
328    if (device === null) {
329      return { result: described(await read($, screen), 'small') }
330    }
331
332    const done: string[] = []
333    const apply = async (what: string, args: readonly string[]) => {
334      done.push((await simctl($, args)) === null ? `${what}: failed` : what)
335    }
336
337    if (asked.appearance === 'light' || asked.appearance === 'dark') {
338      await apply(`appearance ${asked.appearance}`, ['ui', device.udid, 'appearance', asked.appearance])
339    }
340
341    if (typeof asked.textSize === 'string' && [...TEXT_SIZES, 'increment', 'decrement'].includes(asked.textSize)) {
342      await apply(`text size ${asked.textSize}`, ['ui', device.udid, 'content_size', asked.textSize])
343    }
344
345    if (asked.statusBar === 'clean') {
346      await apply('clean status bar', ['status_bar', device.udid, 'override', '--time', '9:41', '--batteryState', 'charged', '--batteryLevel', '100', '--cellularBars', '4', '--wifiBars', '3'])
347    } else if (asked.statusBar === 'default') {
348      await apply('default status bar', ['status_bar', device.udid, 'clear'])
349    }
350
351    if (typeof asked.openUrl === 'string' && /^[a-z][a-z0-9+.-]*:/i.test(asked.openUrl)) {
352      await apply(`opened ${asked.openUrl}`, ['openurl', device.udid, asked.openUrl])
353    }
354
355    if (done.length === 0) {
356      return { result: 'Nothing to change: name an appearance, a text size, a status bar or a URL.' }
357    }
358
359    await $.clock.sleep(SETTLE_MS).catch(() => undefined)
360
361    return { result: [`Done: ${done.join(', ')}.`, described(await look($), 'small')].join('\n') }
362  })
363
364  // A command that changes what the simulator shows is followed by a fresh look, once the screen has settled.
365  on('tool.call', { tool: 'Bash' }, async ($, e, next) => {
366    const { changesScreen, launched } = readCommand(e.command)
367    const ran = await next(e)
368
369    if (changesScreen && ran.deny === undefined) {
370      chosen.bundleId = launched ?? chosen.bundleId
371      $.clock.after(SETTLE_MS, () => {
372        void (async () => {
373          const seen = await refresh($)
374
375          if (autoOpen && seen.device !== null) {
376            openPane($)
377            watch($, every)
378          }
379        })().catch(() => undefined)
380      })
381    }
382
383    return ran
384  })
385
386  on('tool.call', { tool: XCODE_MCP_TOOL }, async ($, e, next) => {
387    const ran = await next(e)
388    $.clock.after(SETTLE_MS, () => {
389      void refresh($).catch(() => undefined)
390    })
391
392    return ran
393  })
394
395  on('ui.render', { component: 'Pane', requestId: PANE }, async ($, e) => {
396    const seen = await read($, screen)
397    const live = await read($, isLive)
398    const lines = await read($, logs)
399
400    if (e.surface === 'terminal') {
401      const { Box, Button, Image, Text } = $.ui.resolve(e)
402      const room = { columns: Math.max(8, e.props.bodyColumns - 1), rows: Math.max(6, (e.viewport?.rows ?? 40) - (lines === null ? 9 : 9 + PANE_LOG_LINES)) }
403      const box = seen.shot === null || seen.shot.width === 0 ? null : fit(seen.shot.width, seen.shot.height, room)
404
405      return (
406        <Box flexDirection="column">
407          {seen.status === 'unavailable' && <Text dimColor>simpane needs macOS with Xcode's command line tools.</Text>}
408          {seen.status === 'unknown' && <Text dimColor>Looking for a booted simulator…</Text>}
409          {seen.status === 'absent' && (
410            <Box flexDirection="column">
411              <Text dimColor>No simulator is booted.</Text>
412              {seen.candidates.map((device, at) => (
413                <Button
414                  key={`boot-${device.udid}`}
415                  hotkey={String(at + 1)}
416                  plain
417                  label={`Boot ${device.name} (${device.runtime})`}
418                  onPress={async () => {
419                    chosen.udid = device.udid
420                    await simctl($, ['boot', device.udid], 120_000)
421                    await simctl($, ['bootstatus', device.udid], 180_000)
422                    await refresh($)
423                  }}
424                />
425              ))}
426              <Button key="refresh" hotkey="r" plain label="Look again" onPress={() => refresh($)} />
427            </Box>
428          )}
429          {seen.status === 'ready' && (
430            <Box flexDirection="column">
431              <Text bold>{seen.device?.name ?? ''}</Text>
432              <Text dimColor>{[seen.device?.runtime, seen.appearance, seen.textSize === '' ? '' : `text ${seen.textSize}`].filter(Boolean).join(' · ')}</Text>
433              {seen.shot !== null && box !== null && (
434                <Image
435                  key="screen"
436                  source={{ file: seen.shot.smallPath, format: 'png', generation: seen.shot.generation }}
437                  columns={box.columns}
438                  rows={box.rows}
439                  alt={`Screenshot saved to ${seen.shot.path}`}
440                />
441              )}
442              {seen.shot === null && <Text color="warning">The screenshot could not be taken.</Text>}
443              <Text dimColor>{seen.app === null ? 'None of your own apps is running.' : `${seen.app.name} · ${seen.app.bundleId}`}</Text>
444              <Box flexDirection="row" gap={2} flexWrap="wrap" marginTop={1}>
445                <Button key="refresh" hotkey="r" plain label="Refresh" onPress={() => refresh($)} />
446                <Button key="live" hotkey="l" plain label={live ? 'Live on' : 'Live off'} onPress={() => update($, isLive, lives => !lives)} />
447                <Button
448                  key="appearance"
449                  hotkey="a"
450                  plain
451                  label={seen.appearance === 'dark' ? 'Light' : 'Dark'}
452                  onPress={async () => {
453                    await simctl($, ['ui', seen.device?.udid ?? 'booted', 'appearance', seen.appearance === 'dark' ? 'light' : 'dark'])
454                    await refresh($)
455                  }}
456                />
457                <Button
458                  key="bigger"
459                  hotkey="u"
460                  plain
461                  label="Text +"
462                  onPress={async () => {
463                    await simctl($, ['ui', seen.device?.udid ?? 'booted', 'content_size', 'increment'])
464                    await refresh($)
465                  }}
466                />
467                <Button
468                  key="smaller"
469                  hotkey="d"
470                  plain
471                  label="Text −"
472                  onPress={async () => {
473                    await simctl($, ['ui', seen.device?.udid ?? 'booted', 'content_size', 'decrement'])
474                    await refresh($)
475                  }}
476                />
477              </Box>
478              <Box flexDirection="row" gap={2} flexWrap="wrap">
479                <Button
480                  key="send"
481                  hotkey="s"
482                  plain
483                  label="Send to Claude"
484                  onPress={async () => {
485                    const fresh = await refresh($)
486
487                    if (fresh.shot !== null) {
488                      await $.prompt.fill({ text: `Look at the simulator screenshot at ${fresh.shot.smallPath} `, mode: 'insert' })
489                    }
490                  }}
491                />
492                <Button
493                  key="logs"
494                  hotkey="g"
495                  plain
496                  label={lines === null ? 'Logs' : 'Hide logs'}
497                  onPress={async () => {
498                    if (lines !== null || seen.device === null || seen.app === null) {
499                      await update($, logs, () => null)
500                    } else {
501                      await update($, logs, () => ['Reading…'])
502                      const found = await appLogs($, seen.device, seen.app, 60, null)
503                      await update($, logs, () => found ?? ['The log could not be read.'])
504                    }
505                  }}
506                />
507                {seen.devices.length > 1 && (
508                  <Button
509                    key="device"
510                    hotkey="n"
511                    plain
512                    label="Next device"
513                    onPress={async () => {
514                      const at = seen.devices.findIndex(one => one.udid === seen.device?.udid)
515                      chosen.udid = seen.devices[(at + 1) % seen.devices.length]?.udid ?? null
516                      await refresh($)
517                    }}
518                  />
519                )}
520              </Box>
521              {lines !== null && (
522                <Box flexDirection="column" marginTop={1}>
523                  <Text bold>{`Logs · last minute${seen.app === null ? '' : ` · ${seen.app.name}`}`}</Text>
524                  {lines.length === 0 && <Text dimColor>Nothing logged by the app.</Text>}
525                  {lines.slice(-PANE_LOG_LINES).map(line => (
526                    <Text wrap="truncate-end" color={/ (error|fault): /.test(line) ? 'error' : undefined}>
527                      {line.split('\n')[0] ?? ''}
528                    </Text>
529                  ))}
530                </Box>
531              )}
532            </Box>
533          )}
534        </Box>
535      )
536    }
537
538    // Other surfaces draw no pictures from a file: the facts and the path stand in.
539    const { Box, Text } = $.ui.resolve(e)
540
541    return (
542      <Box flexDirection="column">
543        {seen.status === 'unavailable' && <Text dimColor>simpane needs macOS with Xcode's command line tools.</Text>}
544        {(seen.status === 'absent' || seen.status === 'unknown') && <Text dimColor>No simulator is booted.</Text>}
545        {seen.status === 'ready' && (
546          <Box flexDirection="column">
547            <Text bold>{seen.device?.name ?? ''}</Text>
548            <Text dimColor>{[seen.device?.runtime, seen.appearance, seen.textSize === '' ? '' : `text ${seen.textSize}`].filter(Boolean).join(' · ')}</Text>
549            <Text dimColor>{seen.app === null ? 'None of your own apps is running.' : `${seen.app.name} · ${seen.app.bundleId}`}</Text>
550            {seen.shot !== null && <Text>{`Screenshot: ${seen.shot.path}`}</Text>}
551            <Text dimColor>The live picture is drawn in a terminal that shows images (Ghostty, kitty). Ask Claude to look at the simulator from here.</Text>
552          </Box>
553        )}
554      </Box>
555    )
556  })
557}
558
hooks/simctl.ts 171 lines
1import type { App, Device } from '../types'
2import { commands } from './shell'
3
4type Json = Record<string, unknown>
5
6const record = (value: unknown): Json => (typeof value === 'object' && value !== null && !Array.isArray(value) ? (value as Json) : {})
7
8const list = (value: unknown): Json[] => (Array.isArray(value) ? value.map(record) : [])
9
10const text = (value: unknown) => (typeof value === 'string' ? value : '')
11
12const json = (raw: string): Json => {
13  try {
14    return record(JSON.parse(raw))
15  } catch {
16    return {}
17  }
18}
19
20/** `com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimRuntime.iOS-27-0` as `iOS 27.0`. */
21export const runtimeName = (identifier: string) => {
22  const [platform = '', ...version] = identifier.slice(identifier.lastIndexOf('.') + 1).split('-')
23
24  return version.length === 0 ? platform : `${platform} ${version.join('.')}`
25}
26
27/** The simulators `simctl list devices -j` lists, the most recently used first; `state` narrows them. */
28export const parseDevices = (raw: string, state?: 'Booted' | 'Shutdown'): Device[] =>
29  Object.entries(record(json(raw).devices))
30    .flatMap(([runtime, devices]) =>
31      list(devices)
32        .filter(one => one.isAvailable !== false && (state === undefined || one.state === state))
33        .map(one => ({ udid: text(one.udid), name: text(one.name), runtime: runtimeName(runtime), usedAt: text(one.lastUsedAt) })),
34    )
35    .filter(one => one.udid !== '')
36    .sort((a, b) => b.usedAt.localeCompare(a.usedAt))
37    .map(({ usedAt: _usedAt, ...device }) => device)
38
39/**
40 * The app in front: of the apps `launchctl list` shows running, the newest
41 * that `simctl listapps` (as JSON) says the developer installed, or the one
42 * `preferred` names when it is running.
43 */
44export const parseApp = (launchctl: string, apps: string, preferred: string | null): App | null => {
45  const installed = json(apps)
46  const running = [...launchctl.matchAll(/^(\d+)\s+\S+\s+UIKitApplication:([^[\s]+)/gm)]
47    .map(found => ({ pid: Number(found[1]), bundleId: found[2] ?? '' }))
48    .sort((a, b) => b.pid - a.pid)
49  const own = running.filter(one => record(installed[one.bundleId]).ApplicationType === 'User')
50  const picked = own.find(one => one.bundleId === preferred) ?? own[0]
51
52  if (picked === undefined) {
53    return null
54  }
55
56  const info = record(installed[picked.bundleId])
57  const executable = text(info.CFBundleExecutable)
58
59  return {
60    bundleId: picked.bundleId,
61    name: text(info.CFBundleDisplayName) || text(info.CFBundleName) || executable || picked.bundleId,
62    executable: executable || picked.bundleId.slice(picked.bundleId.lastIndexOf('.') + 1),
63  }
64}
65
66/** The pixel size `sips -g pixelWidth -g pixelHeight` printed. */
67export const parseSize = (raw: string) => {
68  const width = Number(/pixelWidth:\s*(\d+)/.exec(raw)?.[1] ?? 0)
69  const height = Number(/pixelHeight:\s*(\d+)/.exec(raw)?.[1] ?? 0)
70
71  return width > 0 && height > 0 ? { width, height } : null
72}
73
74/** A terminal cell is about twice as tall as it is wide. */
75const CELL_ASPECT = 2.1
76
77/** The box of terminal cells a picture fills without distortion, inside the room given. */
78export const fit = (width: number, height: number, room: { columns: number; rows: number }) => {
79  const columns = Math.max(1, Math.min(255, room.columns, Math.floor((room.rows * CELL_ASPECT * width) / height)))
80  const rows = Math.max(1, Math.min(255, room.rows, Math.round((columns * height) / width / CELL_ASPECT)))
81
82  return { columns, rows }
83}
84
85const LOG_LINE = /^\d{4}-\d\d-\d\d (\d\d:\d\d:\d\d)\.\d+\s+(\S+)\s+\S+\[\d+:[0-9a-f]+\]\s+(.*)$/
86const LEVEL: Record<string, string> = { E: 'error', F: 'fault', Df: '', Db: 'debug', I: 'info' }
87const LOG_WIDTH = 300
88
89/**
90 * An app's own lines out of `log show --style compact`: what it logged
91 * itself and every error or fault in its process, system chatter dropped,
92 * repeats folded, each line cut to a width.
93 */
94export const filterLog = (raw: string, executable: string, contains: string | null): string[] => {
95  const kept: { line: string; times: number }[] = []
96  const wanted = contains?.toLowerCase() ?? null
97
98  for (const line of raw.split('\n')) {
99    const found = LOG_LINE.exec(line)
100
101    if (found === null) {
102      // A message's later lines belong to the line kept before them.
103      const last = kept.at(-1)
104
105      if (last !== undefined && /^\s+\S/.test(line) && last.times === 1 && last.line.length < LOG_WIDTH * 3) {
106        last.line += `\n${line.slice(0, LOG_WIDTH)}`
107      }
108
109      continue
110    }
111
112    const [, time = '', type = '', rest = ''] = found
113    const isSerious = type === 'E' || type === 'F'
114    const subsystem = /^\[([^:\]]*):/.exec(rest)?.[1]
115    const library = /^\(([^)]+)\)/.exec(rest)?.[1]
116    const isOwn =
117      subsystem !== undefined
118        ? !subsystem.startsWith('com.apple.')
119        : library === undefined || library === executable || library.startsWith(`${executable}.`)
120
121    if (type === 'A' || (!isSerious && !isOwn)) {
122      continue
123    }
124
125    const message = rest.replace(/^\(([^)]+)\)\s*/, '').slice(0, LOG_WIDTH)
126
127    if (wanted !== null && !message.toLowerCase().includes(wanted)) {
128      continue
129    }
130
131    const told = `${time} ${LEVEL[type] === undefined || LEVEL[type] === '' ? '' : `${LEVEL[type]}: `}${message}`
132    const last = kept.at(-1)
133
134    if (last !== undefined && last.line.slice(9) === told.slice(9)) {
135      last.times += 1
136    } else {
137      kept.push({ line: told, times: 1 })
138    }
139  }
140
141  return kept.map(one => (one.times > 1 ? `${one.line} (×${one.times})` : one.line))
142}
143
144const SIMCTL_CHANGES = new Set([
145  'boot', 'shutdown', 'install', 'uninstall', 'launch', 'terminate', 'openurl', 'ui', 'status_bar', 'erase', 'addmedia', 'push', 'privacy', 'location',
146])
147
148/** What a Bash command does to a simulator: whether its screen may change, and the app it launches. */
149export const readCommand = (command: string): { changesScreen: boolean; launched: string | null } => {
150  let changesScreen = false
151  let launched: string | null = null
152
153  for (const one of commands(command)) {
154    const args = one.name === 'xcrun' ? one.args.filter(arg => !arg.startsWith('-')) : [one.name, ...one.args]
155    const [tool, verb] = args
156
157    if (tool === 'simctl' && verb !== undefined && SIMCTL_CHANGES.has(verb)) {
158      changesScreen = true
159
160      if (verb === 'launch') {
161        // `simctl launch [flags] <device> <bundle id> [arguments]`
162        launched = args.slice(2).filter(arg => !arg.startsWith('-'))[1] ?? launched
163      }
164    } else if (tool === 'xcodebuild' || one.name === 'xcodebuild') {
165      changesScreen ||= /simulator/i.test(command)
166    }
167  }
168
169  return { changesScreen, launched }
170}
171
hooks/shell.ts 186 lines
1export type Word = {
2  text: string
3  start: number
4  end: number
5  isRedirect: boolean
6  isDynamic: boolean
7}
8
9export type Command = {
10  /** The executable's name, any folder before it dropped. */
11  name: string
12  args: string[]
13  /** True when an argument is built at run time (`$VAR`, `$(...)`), so its text is not what runs. */
14  hasDynamicArgs: boolean
15}
16
17const ASSIGNMENT = /^[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*=/
18const WRAPPERS = new Set(['time', 'command', 'exec', 'env', 'nohup', 'sudo', 'caffeinate', '{', '!', 'if', 'then', 'else', 'do', 'while'])
19
20const split = (command: string): Word[][] => {
21  const segments: Word[][] = []
22  let words: Word[] = []
23  let word: Word | null = null
24  const open = (at: number): Word => {
25    word ??= { text: '', start: at, end: at, isRedirect: false, isDynamic: false }
26
27    return word
28  }
29  const push = (at: number) => {
30    if (word !== null) {
31      word.end = at
32      words.push(word)
33      word = null
34    }
35  }
36  const cut = (at: number) => {
37    push(at)
38
39    if (words.length > 0) {
40      segments.push(words)
41    }
42
43    words = []
44  }
45  const size = command.length
46  let i = 0
47
48  while (i < size) {
49    const c = command.charAt(i)
50    const following = command.charAt(i + 1)
51
52    if (c === '\\') {
53      if (following !== '\n') {
54        open(i).text += following
55      }
56
57      i += 2
58    } else if (c === "'") {
59      const close = command.indexOf("'", i + 1)
60      const stop = close < 0 ? size : close
61      open(i).text += command.slice(i + 1, stop)
62      i = stop + 1
63    } else if (c === '"') {
64      const quoted = open(i)
65      i += 1
66
67      while (i < size && command.charAt(i) !== '"') {
68        const inner = command.charAt(i)
69        const escaped = command.charAt(i + 1)
70
71        if (inner === '\\' && '\\"$`\n'.includes(escaped) && escaped !== '') {
72          quoted.text += escaped === '\n' ? '' : escaped
73          i += 2
74        } else {
75          quoted.isDynamic ||= inner === '$' || inner === '`'
76          quoted.text += inner
77          i += 1
78        }
79      }
80
81      i += 1
82    } else if (c === '$' && following === '(') {
83      const substituted = open(i)
84      let depth = 0
85      let stop = i + 1
86
87      for (; stop < size; stop += 1) {
88        const inner = command.charAt(stop)
89        depth += inner === '(' ? 1 : inner === ')' ? -1 : 0
90
91        if (depth === 0) {
92          break
93        }
94      }
95
96      substituted.isDynamic = true
97      substituted.text += command.slice(i, stop + 1)
98      i = stop + 1
99    } else if (c === '`') {
100      const close = command.indexOf('`', i + 1)
101      const stop = close < 0 ? size : close
102      const substituted = open(i)
103      substituted.isDynamic = true
104      substituted.text += command.slice(i, stop + 1)
105      i = stop + 1
106    } else if (c === '#' && word === null) {
107      const newline = command.indexOf('\n', i)
108      i = newline < 0 ? size : newline
109    } else if (c === ' ' || c === '\t') {
110      push(i)
111      i += 1
112    } else if (c === '>' || c === '<') {
113      const redirect = open(i)
114      redirect.isRedirect = true
115      redirect.text += c
116      i += 1
117    } else if (c === '&' && ('<>'.includes(command.charAt(i - 1) || ' ') || following === '>')) {
118      const redirect = open(i)
119      redirect.isRedirect = true
120      redirect.text += c
121      i += 1
122    } else if (';\n|&()'.includes(c)) {
123      cut(i)
124      i += 1
125    } else {
126      const plain = open(i)
127      plain.isDynamic ||= c === '$'
128      plain.text += c
129      i += 1
130    }
131  }
132
133  cut(size)
134
135  return segments
136}
137
138const analyse = (words: Word[]): Command | null => {
139  let i = 0
140
141  while (i < words.length) {
142    const text = words[i]?.text ?? ''
143
144    if (ASSIGNMENT.test(text)) {
145      i += 1
146    } else if (WRAPPERS.has(text)) {
147      i += 1
148
149      while (words[i]?.text.startsWith('-') === true) {
150        i += 1
151      }
152    } else {
153      break
154    }
155  }
156
157  const head = words[i]
158
159  if (head === undefined || head.isRedirect || head.isDynamic) {
160    return null
161  }
162
163  const rest = words.slice(i + 1)
164  const redirect = rest.findIndex(one => one.isRedirect)
165  const args = redirect < 0 ? rest : rest.slice(0, redirect)
166
167  return {
168    name: head.text.slice(head.text.lastIndexOf('/') + 1),
169    args: args.map(one => one.text),
170    hasDynamicArgs: args.some(one => one.isDynamic),
171  }
172}
173
174/**
175 * The commands a Bash command line runs, in order.
176 *
177 * Only a command standing at a command position counts: one inside a quoted
178 * string, a `$(...)` or a here-document is text, not something that runs here.
179 */
180export const commands = (command: string): Command[] =>
181  command.includes('<<')
182    ? []
183    : split(command)
184        .map(analyse)
185        .filter(one => one !== null)
186
types/index.d.ts 54 lines
1export type Device = {
2  udid: string
3  name: string
4  /** `iOS 27.0`, `watchOS 26.2`. */
5  runtime: string
6}
7
8/** A simulator that could be booted, offered when none is running. */
9export type Candidate = Device
10
11export type App = {
12  bundleId: string
13  name: string
14  /** The process name, which the device's log is filtered by. */
15  executable: string
16}
17
18export type Shot = {
19  /** The screenshot as the simulator took it. */
20  path: string
21  /** A copy scaled down for the pane and for Claude to read. */
22  smallPath: string
23  width: number
24  height: number
25  at: number
26  /** Changes with every capture, so a redraw reads the file again. */
27  generation: number
28}
29
30export type Screen = {
31  /** `absent`: no simulator is booted. `unavailable`: `xcrun simctl` could not be run on this machine. */
32  status: 'unknown' | 'ready' | 'absent' | 'unavailable'
33  device: Device | null
34  /** Every booted simulator, when more than one is. */
35  devices: Device[]
36  candidates: Candidate[]
37  shot: Shot | null
38  appearance: string
39  textSize: string
40  app: App | null
41}
42
43declare module 'claude-code' {
44  interface PluginState {
45    'simpane': {
46      screen: Screen
47      isLive: boolean
48      /** The foreground app's own log lines, when the pane shows them. */
49      logs: string[] | null
50      isBusy: boolean
51    }
52  }
53}
54