CodeDroid MCP server

CodeDroid MCP

Let Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, or any MCP client use your Android phone. Read the screen, interact with apps, take screenshots, and test what you build through CodeDroid. Your phone and computer can be on different networks.

Get started

You'll need Node.js 20+ and an Android phone. Both devices need internet access.

Fastest: plug in your phone

Turn on USB debugging on the phone, plug it into your computer, and run:

npx -y @codedroid/mcp setup

It adds CodeDroid to every coding client it finds (Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Cursor, VS Code, Claude Desktop, Windsurf, Zed), installs the CodeDroid app on the phone, turns on its accessibility service, and pairs the phone with this computer. On the phone, you allow USB debugging for this computer, sign in to CodeDroid with Google, and tap Allow when your computer first connects. Then restart your coding client.

Already have the plugin? Ask your agent to "set up my phone" instead: it does the same, and asks you before installing anything. Setting up over USB needs adb.

Or step by step

1. Install for your coding client

Every client at once: run npx -y @codedroid/mcp setup in your terminal. Or for one client:

Claude Code: run in your terminal:

claude plugin install codedroid --marketplace codedroid-team/codedroid-mcp

Codex: run in your terminal:

codex plugin marketplace add codedroid-team/codedroid-mcp
codex plugin add codedroid@codedroid

Antigravity: run in your terminal:

npx -y @codedroid/mcp setup --client=antigravity

It adds the CodeDroid plugin to ~/.gemini/config/plugins. Restart Antigravity and find it under Customizations > Installed.

Cursor: Add to Cursor

VS Code: Install in VS Code

Zed: add this to ~/.config/zed/settings.json (Windows: %APPDATA%\Zed\settings.json):

{
  "context_servers": {
    "codedroid": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@codedroid/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Each plugin includes the MCP server and skills for phone control and Android app testing. Restart your coding client after installing.

Using another client? See manual MCP setup.

2. Pair your phone

1. Install CodeDroid from get.codedroid.com, sign in, and turn on its accessibility service when it asks.

2. Open CodeDroid → Settings → Computers → Pair a computer.

3. Run the command shown there in your computer's terminal. For example:

   npx -y @codedroid/mcp pair ABCD-EFGH
   

4. Tap Allow on your phone when prompted.

Use the command exactly as shown. Pairing codes expire after 10 minutes and work once.

Ask your agent

Read the screen on my phone and describe what is open.

Then try:

• “Open Android Settings and check the Android version.”
• “Open my app, navigate to sign-in, and take a screenshot.”
• “Install this APK, launch it, and check for crashes.”*

*install_apk works over CodeDroid's connection, with one setting to allow. Reading logs with adb also requires Android platform-tools and a USB or wireless debugging connection. See adb setup.

What it includes

• MCP tools to read the screen, take screenshots, tap, type, swipe, open apps, and hand CodeDroid's agent a multi-step task, on one phone or several. See the tool list.
• Skills: codedroid-phone teaches the agent to drive the phone one checked step at a time, and test-on-device walks it through building, installing, and verifying an Android app change. app-e2e tests an app end to end: it explores the app, writes a test PRD, critical user journeys and test cases into its repo (e2e/), stops for your review of each, runs the cases on the phone and writes a report with a screenshot per case. Each step is its own skill (app-e2e-explore, -prd, -cujs, -testcases, -run). Then app-e2e-rerun runs some of the cases (by id, journey or priority, last failures, the ones a change touches, a flaky check), app-e2e-bug turns a bug into a case that reproduces it, and app-e2e-maintain keeps the cases current as the app changes.
• install_apk to install a build from your computer, with no cable or shared network.
• An adb tool that runs adb commands on your computer, to read logs and run tests. You can turn it off.

Privacy and security

The plugin runs npx -y @codedroid/mcp@<version>, which downloads this exact release from npm and starts a local MCP server. Everything it sends goes over TLS to the CodeDroid server, orchestrator.codedroid.com unless the pairing command shown on your phone names another:

• Pairing sends the one-time code, your computer's name, and its OS (for example darwin), so the phone can show which computer is connected.
• Setting up over USB downloads the app from get.codedroid.com, checks it against the published SHA-256 before installing it, and changes only CodeDroid's own settings on the phone (its accessibility service, keyboard and permissions). It installs only after you agree.
• Tool calls are relayed between your agent and the phone: screen contents, screenshots, text you ask it to type, clipboard reads and writes, and task progress. Each call also names the MCP client that made it and its version. The phone asks you to Allow a computer the first time, shows when one is in use, and can stop or revoke it.

The local server listens on 127.0.0.1 only and requires a per-user token. Pairing credentials, the token, and logs stay in ~/.codedroid on your computer. The adb tool runs only on your computer, and its push and pull stay within your project and temp directories. See Architecture for details.

The plugin itself collects no analytics. The CodeDroid app and server keep usage records under your CodeDroid account: pairing and connecting, whether a computer was allowed, and for each phone tool call its name, whether it worked and its error code, how long it took, the MCP client, session and versions involved, your computer's OS and a random id for it, and the task id of a run_task. Usage records never include tool arguments, screen contents, or text you type.

Need help?

Check your connection:

npx -y @codedroid/mcp status

Manage or revoke computer access in CodeDroid → Settings → Computers.

See the reference guide for tools, manual setup, configuration, troubleshooting, and development.

License

MIT © 2026 CodeDroid