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Agent-Native Mobile Testing
A three-chapter series on plugin authoring, first-mover dynamics, and AI triage for agent-orchestrated mobile cloud testing — worked through kobiton/automate as the running case study.
Agentic CLIs are converging on a single substrate for mobile testing — MCP servers expose vendor capabilities, AGENTS.md briefs cross-runtime behavior, hooks enforce deterministic invariants, OpenTelemetry observes the result. The vendors building real-device clouds for AI-driven testing are the first ones who have to solve this in production.
This feature works through what plugin authoring looks like in that world, using Kobiton’s published kobiton/automate plugin as the running case study. Three chapters on cadence, expanding as the series ships:
- Chapter 1 (May 11): AGENTS.md as a cross-tool plugin brief — a 5-device parity sweep, the gaps it exposed, and the operational facts a good AGENTS.md would close.
- Chapter 2 (May 18): First-mover dynamics in AI-native mobile testing.
- Chapter 3 (May 25): Text-first AI triage on session logs.
Each chapter cites and links back to the daily post; the chapter form here adds connective tissue that didn’t fit in the post format.