# Quality Engineering Appium Mcp

> Drives iOS/Android mobile devices via Appium MCP. Use for verifying mobile bugs, E2E tests, and navigating real device clouds (LambdaTest/BrowserStack).

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-hoangnguyen0403-agent-skills-standard-quality-engineering-appium-mcp`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [HoangNguyen0403](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/hoangnguyen0403)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Upstream author:** [HoangNguyen0403](https://github.com/HoangNguyen0403)
- **Source:** https://github.com/HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard/tree/develop/.agents/skills/quality-engineering/quality-engineering-appium-mcp
- **Website:** https://www.npmjs.com/package/agent-skills-standard

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-hoangnguyen0403-agent-skills-standard-quality-engineering-appium-mcp
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# 📱 Appium MCP (Mobile Automation)

## **Priority: P1 (HIGH)**

> [!IMPORTANT]
> **Tier 0 (Infrastructure)**: Session creation, device farm connectivity, basic OS interactions.
> **Tier 1 (Core Gestures)**: Taps, swipes, text input for native mobile elements.
> **Tier 2 (Flutter/Single-Canvas)**: Visual-first automation via screenshot + coordinate taps.

## 🔌 Activation

**Triggers**: `appium`, `mobile verify`, `android verify`, `ios verify`, `lambdatest`, `real device cloud`, `flutter widget tap`.

## 🛠 Core Workflow (Goal-Oriented)

| Step | Tool | Purpose |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| 1 | `appium_session_management` (`create`) | Open session. **Resiliency**: Retry with `noReset: true` on failure. |
| 2 | `appium_get_window_size` | Scale coordinates for high-density displays. |
| 3 | `appium_screenshot` | Capture visual state for **Semantic Reasoning**. |
| 4 | `appium_gesture` / `appium_set_value` | Interact. **Self-Healing**: Re-scan hierarchy if UUID stale. |
| 5 | `appium_session_management` (`delete`) | **MANDATORY Cleanup**. |

## 💡 AI-Driven Methodologies
- **Semantic Intent**: Find element in hierarchy (e.g., "Login button") instead of raw coordinates. Resilient to layout shifts.
- **Dynamic Handling**: Unexpected pop-up appears? Pause, reason about alert, dismiss, resume.
- **Visual Anchors**: Find stable "Anchor" (e.g., Header) and derive coordinates relative to it.

## 🚫 Anti-Patterns (Zero-Tolerance)

- **Hardcoded XPaths**: Use `accessibility id` or `uiautomator`. XPath flaky.
- **Implicit Wait-Only**: Never assume page loaded. Poll for "Source of Truth" element.
- **Ignoring QoS**: Audit CPU/Memory via `appium_mobile_performance_data`. Prevent lag/crashes.
- **Orphaned Sessions**: Teardown mandatory. Call `delete` in cleanup block.

## ✅ Evaluation Criteria

- **Cleanup Rate**: 100% session closure.
- **Visual Accuracy**: Coordinate-based taps land within 5% of target center.
- **Security**: No secrets in tool arguments or logs.

## 🔗 References

- **Visual Testing**: [common-mobile-visual-testing](../../common/common-mobile-visual-testing/SKILL.md) — Methodology for what to verify.
- **LambdaTest Setup**: [lambdatest-cloud-setup](references/lambdatest-cloud-setup.md) — RDC configuration.
- **Tool Cheatsheet**: [tool-cheatsheet](references/tool-cheatsheet.md) — Fast copy-paste args.
- **Project Context**: [project-context](references/project-context.md) — Project-specific overlays/macros.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [HoangNguyen0403](https://github.com/HoangNguyen0403)
- **Source:** [HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard](https://github.com/HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard)
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Homepage:** https://www.npmjs.com/package/agent-skills-standard

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-hoangnguyen0403-agent-skills-standard-quality-engineering-appium-mcp
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/hoangnguyen0403
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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