Simulator Workflows

Simulator Workflows is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by conorluddy in xclaude-plugin.

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Install Simulator Workflows

Copy Simulator Workflows into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/conorluddy/xclaude-plugin/tree/main/skills/simulator-workflows ~/.claude/skills/simulator-workflows

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/conorluddy/xclaude-plugin.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/simulator-workflows/SKILL.md in conorluddy/xclaude-plugin
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/simulator-workflows
Collection: One of 8 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 2109 skills

What Simulator Workflows does

Simulator Workflows manages iOS Simulator devices and apps through simctl via the execute_simulator_command MCP tool. Use it to boot, create, delete, install, launch, and diagnose simulator issues.

Simulator Workflows is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Simulator Workflows comes from a repository tagged agentic, agentic-workflow, claude, claude-code and claude-code-plugin.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Simulator Workflows

Use the execute_simulator_command MCP tool for all simulator management

The xclaude-plugin provides the execute_simulator_command MCP tool which consolidates all simctl operations into a single, token-efficient dispatcher.

⚠️ CRITICAL: Always Use MCP Tools First

This is the most important rule: When working with iOS simulators, you MUST use the execute_simulator_command MCP tool.

✅ DO: Invoke execute_simulator_command for all device/app lifecycle operations
✅ DO: If the MCP tool fails, adjust parameters and retry
✅ DO: Read error messages and debug the parameters
❌ NEVER: Fall back to bash xcrun simctl commands
❌ NEVER: Use simctl directly in bash
❌ NEVER: Run xcrun simctl commands in a terminal

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Simulator Workflows

What else does conorluddy publish alongside Simulator Workflows?
Simulator Workflows is one of 8 skills that DirSkills catalogs from conorluddy/xclaude-plugin, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Accessibility Testing, Crash Debugging and Performance Profiling. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Simulator Workflows does, and is maintained by conorluddy in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the conorluddy/xclaude-plugin page.
How does Simulator Workflows compare to other Automation skills?
Simulator Workflows ranks #1914 by stars among the 2109 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Simulator Workflows against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.