Interceptor

Drive any installed app on an owned, unlocked, Developer-Mode iPhone via interceptor ios *: ref-tagged element trees, deterministic coordinate taps (click), reliable text entry (type/keys), scroll, drag, hardware buttons (press), screenshots, installed-app listing, and app launch/activate/terminate. The phone runs an on-device XCUITest runner (InterceptorRunner) that dials into the daemon over WiFi — no cable once paired, no WebDriverAgent. Address a phone with --on <name> or ios:<udid>; phones auto-connect on the first verb. Use for iPhone app automation. Not for the iOS Simulator UI of a Mac app, and not for content inside a browser tab (use interceptor-browser) or a macOS app (use interceptor-macos).

Drive a signed-in Chrome / Brave session via the interceptor CLI: open/read pages, click, type, inspect DOM/text/network, automate rich browser editors and scene graphs, capture WebSocket/Beacon/BroadcastChannel traffic, record/replay flows, take VLM-budgeted screenshots, compare pages, and route to specific browser profiles with --context. Use for browser page content, tabs, forms, SPA extraction, request overrides, page communication capture, and deployment checks. Not for native macOS apps, Electron desktop app web contents, OS dialogs, browser chrome, or large scraping.

Drive native macOS apps via interceptor macos *: AX trees, background click/type/keys/drag/scroll, occluded or minimized window capture, browser chrome, URL bars, OS dialogs, Apple Events, trusted OS input, monitor/replay, overlays, vision, speech, NLP, JSC host utilities, Electron app web-content control via interceptor macos cdp, and in-process app runtime control via interceptor macos runtime. Background-first by contract; only app activate and open --activate move focus. Use for native apps, named browser app routing, window control, cross-app work, and system UI. Not for content inside browser pages.

Deep web-research methodology for the interceptor browser surface — investigate a topic the way researchers, intelligence analysts, investigative journalists, private investigators, and OSINT operators do, not 'read 3 links and summarize.' Use when the task is research, deep research, investigate, go deeper, be thorough/exhaustive, OSINT, due diligence, competitive analysis, literature review, background check, dig in, or 'find everything about X.' Drives interceptor-browser verbs (open/read/inspect/net/eval/tab) with a planner loop, query-craft filters, a per-page escalation chain, pivot-chaining, an on-disk source ledger, and adversarial verification. Do every fetch and search through interceptor — never WebFetch/WebSearch. Pull the playbook any time with `interceptor research`.

Choose the right Interceptor surface. Use interceptor-browser for page DOM, network, browser tabs, rich editors, screenshots, and browser automation. Use interceptor-macos for native apps, browser chrome, URL bars, OS dialogs, cross-app routing, AX trees, native screenshots, Apple Events, trusted OS input, macOS Electron CDP/app web-content control, and in-process app runtime control. Background-first by default; focus changes require explicit opt-in.

Agent eXperience Interface (AXI) — ergonomic standards for building CLI tools that agents use via shell execution. Use when building, modifying, or reviewing any agent-facing CLI.