# lynx-devtool

Controls Lynx apps on Android, iOS, and Desktop using the agent-lynx CLI. Useful for inspecting DevTool sessions, ReactLynx trees, and running snapshot actions.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 6200 installs · ★ 27
- Author: lynx-community
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/lynx-community/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/lynx-devtool/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/lynx-devtool

## What it does

This skill guides the agent in debugging Lynx applications on Android, iOS, and Desktop. Interactions run through the `agent-lynx` CLI tool. The agent can list clients, inspect Lynx DevTool sessions, and execute CDP commands. Output is returned as JSON.

The snapshot workflow enables hands-on UI automation. Running `agent-lynx snapshot` indexes visible elements and creates references like `@e1` for subsequent taps or text entry. You can also generate annotated JPEG images with `agent-lynx screenshot --annotate`, which draws numbered badges over actionable targets. Combining `--annotate` with `--fullscreen` is explicitly disallowed.

Passing `--no-daemon` breaks interactive snapshot workflows because element references exist solely in daemon memory. Programmatic usage via `agent-lynx/connector` requires installing `agent-lynx` locally with npm. Routine CLI invocations work directly on `PATH` or via `npx`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add lynx-community/skills --skill lynx-devtool -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/lynx-devtool/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/lynx-devtool/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add lynx-community/skills --skill lynx-devtool -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/lynx-devtool/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add lynx-community/skills --skill lynx-devtool -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/lynx-devtool/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install lynx-community/skills lynx-devtool
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/lynx-devtool/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add lynx-community/skills --skill lynx-devtool -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/lynx-community/skills --path skills/lynx-devtool
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/lynx-devtool/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add lynx-community/skills --skill lynx-devtool -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/lynx-community/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/lynx-devtool/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- inspect Lynx DevTool clients and active sessions on devices
- automate UI interactions using snapshots, taps, and text entry
- capture annotated screenshots with numbered target badges
- inspect ReactLynx component trees and update component state

## Example prompts
- Check active clients with agent-lynx list-clients
- Capture an annotated screen image using agent-lynx screenshot --annotate -o page.jpeg
- Trigger a tap on ref @e1 using agent-lynx tap @e1 --snapshot

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: lynx-devtool
description: Use when working with Lynx DevTool or debugging a Lynx app, page, or device, especially when the task mentions clients or sessions, CDP or App commands, DOM/CSS inspection, runtime or console logs, evaluating JavaScript on a device, screenshots, heap snapshots, performance traces, Page.reload or App.openPage, global switches, interactive snapshot refs and taps/fills/scrolls, inspecting or searching a ReactLynx component tree, linking DOM Snapshot refs to ReactLynx components (`reactlynx link`), or mutating ReactLynx props/state/context on Android, iOS, or Desktop.
---

# Agent Lynx DevTool Skill

This skill allows you to interact with Lynx applications running on connected devices (Android, iOS, Desktop) using the `agent-lynx` CLI.

## Usage

Use the `agent-lynx` CLI. The published package is `agent-lynx`.
This package, `@lynx-js/skill-lynx-devtool`, is the canonical source of this
Skill's instructions and resources. `agent-lynx` depends on it and reads it
directly for `skills list/get`. A compatibility launcher also keeps the historic
one-shot `npx -y @lynx-js/skill-lynx-devtool` invocation working.

The programmatic API is exported from `agent-lynx/connector`. This entry re-exports everything from `@lynx-js/devtool-connector`, `@lynx-js/devtool-connector/transport`, and `@lynx-js/devtool-connector/streams`, and also provides daemon-only `createDefaultTransports()` and `createDefaultConnector()` helpers. The helpers use one `DaemonTransport` so independent scripts share the daemon-owned device connection. Construct a `Connector` with explicit transports only when intentionally testing a non-daemon path.

Online CLI commands follow the same daemon-only default. `--no-daemon` is an
explicit escape hatch that replaces the daemon with direct Android, iOS,
and Desktop transports for that invocation. `ADB_SERVER_HOST` and `ADB_SERVER_PORT` configure
only this direct mode. Daemon mode ignores them with a stderr warning.

The `agent-lynx` CLI is normally available on `PATH`. If
`command -v agent-lynx` fails, use `npx` instead:

```bash
npx --yes agent-lynx <command>
```

This published skill does not ship a local CLI entry script. Use:

```bash
agent-lynx <command>
```

**Note:** Most command outputs are JSON. You can use `jq` or Node.js to process the data.

### Discover Built-in Skills

The installed `@lynx-js/skill-lynx-devtool` dependency provides the
`lynx-devtool` skill. Discover it or load its complete instructions with:

```bash
agent-lynx skills list
agent-lynx skills get lynx-devtool
```

`skills list` reads each name and description directly from that package's
`SKILL.md` YAML frontmatter. `skills get` returns the selected Markdown body and
recursively lists regular files under `references/`, `assets/`, and `examples/`
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