Newmobilerun VA is now in beta, a hosted 24/7 agent for mobile automation
MCP

The mobile MCP server. Real phones for your agent.

Connect Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor or VS Code to real Android and iOS phones. Hosted over HTTP, no ADB, no emulator, no local setup.

1

Get your API key

Sign up atcloud.mobilerun.aiand copy your key from the API Keys tab. It starts with dr_sk_. The Free plan includes 60 device minutes and 500 credits ($5) a month.

2

Connect your agent

Claude Code, paste this into your terminal (replace the key):

terminal
claude mcp add --transport http mobilerun https://api.mobilerun.ai/v1/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer dr_sk_YOUR_API_KEY"

Cursor, paste this into ~/.cursor/mcp.json:

~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mobilerun": {
      "url": "https://api.mobilerun.ai/v1/mcp",
      "transport": "http",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer dr_sk_YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code, paste this into .vscode/mcp.json:

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "mobilerun": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.mobilerun.ai/v1/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer dr_sk_YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop adds remote servers under Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector. Enter https://cloud.mobilerun.ai/api/mcp/sse and sign in with your mobilerun account.

3

Try it

Restart your agent and ask it something like:

prompt
Spin up a real phone and take a screenshot of the home screen.

Your agent now has tools for tasks, devices, apps, files, credentials, network routing, eSIM, workflows and webhooks on real Android and iOS phones.

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Going deeper: mobile-harness

The MCP server gives any client hosted real phones with zero install. For coding agents there's alsomobile-harness, portable operating instructions plus the mobilerun_corePython API, which drives real phones and local devices (Android via ADB, iOS via portal). Setup is one prompt:

prompt · paste into your agent
Set up https://github.com/droidrun/mobile-harness for me.

Read `install.md` and follow the steps to install `mobile-harness`.

OAuth is also supported, full setup in theMCP server docs.

FAQ

Mobile MCP, common questions.

What is the mobilerun MCP server?+
A hosted Model Context Protocol server that connects any MCP client with remote HTTP support, including Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor and VS Code, to real Android and iOS phones. Your coding agent gets tools for tasks, devices, apps, files, credentials, network routing, eSIM, workflows and webhooks, without installing anything locally.
How is this different from local mobile MCP servers?+
Most mobile MCP servers run on your machine and control a locally connected device or emulator over ADB. mobilerun's MCP server is remote: it runs against cloud-hosted real devices over HTTP with API-key or OAuth authentication, so agents can operate phones from anywhere, CI, servers, or your laptop, with no ADB setup. To drive local devices from code too, use mobile-harness.
Do the phones pass app integrity checks?+
Yes, the devices behind the MCP server are cloud-hosted Android and iOS devices with genuine device signals. Configure the device location and Connect route for the country or region the task needs.

Give your agent a phone.

One JSON block between your coding agent and a real device.