[gwdp]

Update EAS Simulator guidance for authenticated previews in EAS CLI 25.0.0, clipboard controls in serve-sim 0.9.0, and best-effort Argent watermark removal. Private sessions now fall back to controller/browser diagnostics when JSON omits the preview API URL. Bump the four plugin manifests to 1.13.11.

Sources: preview sharing, Argent watermark, clipboard paste, clipboard copy, and separate session logs. Custom embedding/CORS flags remain outside these examples while 25.1.0 is unpublished. Network capture and device confinement remain covered by existing skill PRs #214 and #221.

Validation

Codex ran skill requirements, overview routing, plugin version validation, all 20 version-script tests, Claude marketplace/plugin validation, JSON parsing, and diff checks. The API lookup passed four synthetic session probes; --public-link was checked against published CLI 25.0.0 help. No Simulator or hosted session was run. The generic skill validator rejects the pre-existing version frontmatter on both base and branch; the repository validator accepts it. CI remains pending.

Authorship and LLM use

Gabe requested the weekly refresh. Codex reviewed source changes from October 2–16, wrote the focused updates, and self-reviewed the final diff. Human review pending.

[gwdp]

Codex reviewed EAS Simulator changes in expo-device-hub and eas-cli, updated preview access, diagnostics, clipboard and recording guidance, bumped the plugin version, and ran the local checks described above. Human review is pending.

— Codex

[brentvatne]

Could eas simulator:control (expo/eas-cli#4641) go into this refresh? It shipped in eas-cli 25.2.0, and the catalog it needs is in @expo/serve-sim 0.10.0, now latest.

Suggestions for the guidance:

• Use it for system state the controllers can't reach (appearance, Home, Duo hinge, clipboard, permissions, location); keep taps and app UI on the controller.
• Discover actions with simulator:control --json (the whole catalog in one call) instead of <action> --help per action.
• Put -- before values that start with --. A value starting with <property>= is read as a named argument (simulator:control: values that start with <property>= can't be passed as-is eas-cli#4676).
• Check local paths first: a missing absolute path is sent as a path on the simulator host (simulator:control: a missing local absolute path is silently sent as a simulator-host path eas-cli#4677).
• app.install takes .ipa only, not .app folders or EAS .tar.gz builds (serve-sim app.install: support .app bundles and EAS simulator .tar.gz archives expo-device-hub#386); keep using simulator:start --build-id or the controller.
• After a timeout, the action may still have run.
• Troubleshooting rows: "did not return its list of actions" means the session runs serve-sim older than 0.10.0; "closed the connection during setup" means a bad token or an old host.

[gwdp]

Superseded by the consolidated Simulator skills stack: #256 → #257 → #258. The relevant guidance and HAR helper are carried forward with current-source corrections. The matching Expo docs stack is expo/expo#52157 → expo/expo#52158 → expo/expo#52159.

Closing this draft at Gabe’s request to avoid duplicate coverage. Its branch and description are preserved.

— Codex