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Cloud Android phones for AI agents: create a phone, read the screen, tap, type, install APKs, park.
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Cloud Android phones for AI agents: create a phone, read the screen, tap, type, install APKs, park.
Remote endpoints: streamable-http: https://phonebox.dev/mcp
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Valid MCP server (1 strong, 1 medium validity signals). No known CVEs in dependencies. Imported from the Official MCP Registry.
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How to Connect
Remote Plugin
No local installation needed. Your AI client connects to the remote endpoint directly.
Add this to your MCP configuration to connect:
{
"mcpServers": {
"dev-phonebox-phonebox": {
"url": "https://phonebox.dev/mcp"
}
}
}Documentation
View on GitHubFrom the project's GitHub README.
Phonebox Android MCP server
A hosted Android MCP server for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and any MCP client, from Phonebox, the agent-first cloud phone. Your agent gets a real Android phone in the cloud. It can read the screen, tap, type, install your APK, hand off to a human, and park the phone when it's done. You don't need ADB, Android Studio or an emulator.
claude mcp add --transport http phonebox https://phonebox.dev/mcp \
--header "Authorization: Bearer $PHONEBOX_API_KEY"
- Endpoint:
https://phonebox.dev/mcp(Streamable HTTP, bearer API key) - Price: $0.06 per phone-minute, billed per second, 1-minute minimum. Parked phones are free and keep their apps and sign-ins.
- Start free: $2 of credit, no card → phonebox.dev
This repo holds the configs and examples. The server itself is hosted by Phonebox, so there's nothing to run.
Why agent-first
Most cloud phones were built for social-media dashboards or QA test suites and added an API later. Phonebox was built for the agent: your agent signs you up from the terminal, reads the screen as text, gets errors with a next step, and never has a write retried behind its back. Idle phones park themselves for free.
Why hosted instead of an ADB MCP server?
| Local ADB MCP server | Phonebox hosted MCP | |
|---|---|---|
| Where the phone runs | An emulator or USB phone on your machine | Phonebox's cloud |
| Setup | Android SDK, ADB, a system image | One URL and an API key |
| Works from CI, sandboxes and remote dev boxes | Only with nested virtualization or a device | Yes |
| State between sessions | Whatever your emulator keeps | Apps, files and sign-ins kept while parked |
| Human handoff | Someone at the machine | A live view link in any browser |
Get an API key
The fastest way is to paste this into your coding agent. It signs you up from the terminal, and you never paste a key into the chat:
Read https://phonebox.dev/setup.md and set me up with Phonebox from here: get me signed in and ready, then find out what I want to use phones for and help me with that.
Or create a key in the console and export PHONEBOX_API_KEY=pbx_….
Connect your client
Claude Code — run the command at the top, or commit this repo's .mcp.json. It reads the key from each person's environment:
{
"mcpServers": {
"phonebox": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://phonebox.dev/mcp",
"headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ${PHONEBOX_API_KEY}" }
}
}
}
Cursor: add examples/cursor-mcp.json to ~/.cursor/mcp.json or .cursor/mcp.json.
Codex: add examples/codex-config.toml to ~/.codex/config.toml.
Any other client: point it at https://phonebox.dev/mcp with an Authorization: Bearer pbx_… header. The server is stateless Streamable HTTP and doesn't use OAuth.
Tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
create_phone | Creates a cloud Android phone and waits until it's ready |
observe | Reads the screen as a numbered text list, plus a 720px screenshot |
act | Runs up to 20 actions in order: tap, type, swipe, scroll, open an app, wait for an element |
install_app | Installs from the app library or from your own uploaded APK |
create_app_upload / complete_app_upload | Uploads your APK with one curl command |
live_view_url | A link for a person to watch and control the phone |
start_phone / park_phone | Resumes a parked phone, or parks it to stop billing |
list_phones / get_phone / list_apps / reboot_phone | Find phones, wait for them, list apps, restart a stuck phone |
What the agent reads from observe:
app com.android.launcher3
screen 1080x2400
[1] EditText "Search apps" #search clickable editable (540,250)
[2] TextView "Chrome" #icon clickable (200,1900)
[3] TextView "Settings" #icon clickable (500,1900)
Examples
- Test the APK you just built: build, install, explore, and report bugs with the exact screen text.
- TypeScript SDK agent: create a phone, read the screen, tap, park.
What it isn't
Android only (no iOS), and there are no phone numbers, SMS or calls. Phonebox gives your agent the device, not telephony.
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