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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-10

phone-harness Gives Agents Eyes and Hands on a Real iPhone

phone-harness.com ↗ · Developer Corner · score 78.0
Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

An open-source tool that lets an agent control iOS apps through iPhone Mirroring, using OCR for vision and HID-level events for taps, typing, and scrolling.

Why it surfaced

phone-harness takes an unusually direct route around app APIs: point it at the mirroring window and let an agent operate the phone as a person would. The homepage identifies it as MIT-licensed and links to GitHub, while emphasizing that it needs neither a jailbreak nor an app installation.

Ham Is Specifically Discouraged

August 10’s newborn domains include a mock cryptid council that specifically discourages ham, a vintage phone collecting messages for Twyla’s 70th, a 4.5-meter dish measuring Galactic hydrogen at 1420 MHz, and an open index that found 530 sites permitting GPTBot in robots.txt while refusing it at the server.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-10 Domain Arrivals issue.