Introduction

A device station for AI agents. Real phones and tablets, simulators and emulators, driven by you or by your agent, with safety rules the agent cannot skip.

What Silan is

Silan runs on a Mac and holds the devices plugged into it: iPhones and iPads on a cable, Xcode simulators Silan makes, and Android emulators. It shows each device live on the Mac, lets you use it by hand, and lets an AI agent see the screen and act on it.

The agent can be Silan’s own chat, or the AI app you already use (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode and any other MCP client), or your own program over a REST API, a WebDriver endpoint or the silan command line.

Silan runs on a Mac today. A Linux station is coming.

Start here

Install and quickstart

What your Mac needs, how to install Silan, how to connect the first device on a cable, and how to run a first task.

Devices

What Silan can do today on each kind of device, and the two ways it controls an iPhone or iPad.

Use Silan from your agent

Give your own AI agent or test tool real devices through the MCP server, command line, REST API, WebDriver endpoint, skills and Python library.

Connect Claude Code and drive a phone

Give Claude Code your devices in one click, allow its first call, and ask it to open Clock and start the stopwatch.

Go deeper

Features

Every part of Silan, one page each, with what it does, how to use it and what has been proved on a real device.

Use cases

What people do with Silan today, with a worked example, the steps, what is supported, and the proof behind each one.

Integrations

Every way an AI app, a test tool or your own program reaches the devices on your Silan station.

Guides

Step-by-step tutorials for the things people do most with Silan, each with a time estimate and a proof note.

MCP tools

Every tool Silan’s MCP server offers, with the profile each one is in.

Safety

How Silan asks before risky steps, how Stop Everything works, how passwords stay hidden from the agent, and what data stays on your Mac.

Teams and self-hosted relay

Share one Mac’s devices with teammates on other networks through a relay your team runs itself.

Troubleshooting and FAQ

Short answers to the problems people hit first, and the questions people ask first.

Who it is for

People

Type a task in plain words and watch the agent do it on your phone. Use the phone from the Mac by hand when you want to. Silan asks before it pays, sends, posts or deletes.

Agents

Give your coding agent real devices to test on. One MCP server with a tool for every device action, element lists instead of pixel guessing, waits that run inside the engine, and leases so two agents never fight over one phone.

QA teams

Run flows on real devices, several at once. Reports with a picture per step, JUnit and JSON exports, schedules, and a team server your company runs itself so teammates can share one Mac’s devices.

How it fits together

1. The Silan app on your Mac. Setup, the live device view, chats, flows, safety and settings.
2. The engine, which the app starts. It owns the devices, runs the safety rules, and serves the APIs on this Mac only.
3. Your agent, through the app’s chat or through an API: MCP, REST, WebDriver or the command line.

Every call, from any client, goes through the same engine and the same safety rules. Nothing leaves the Mac unless you share a device with your team through a relay you or your company run.

Every page here is also plain Markdown: add .md to the address, or read llms.txt for the whole set.