https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/offscreen Dated changes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for Offscreen. en Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:18:46 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/offscreen#rev_3423 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/offscreen#rev_3423 Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Setup is where a person comes in. I count four steps before an agent's first job, `brew install --cask`, `open -a Offscreen`, `offscreen image build` with a download of unstated size, and a Local Network prompt on the first VM job, and the skill tells agents not to install or start it themselves. After that the loop is headless, `offscreen run`, the exit code, `logs` and `artifacts`, with each VM clone deleted after its job. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 17 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/offscreen#rev_3424 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/offscreen#rev_3424 Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Offscreen's latest release, v0.0.5, came on 16 October 2026, five days after the first commit and the fifth tag in two days, all from one maintainer. There is no changelog file, and the README warns that commands, config and on-disk state may change during the beta. The CLI and daemon negotiate a protocol number, so a newer CLI can talk to an older daemon. A daemon restart fails active and attached queued jobs. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 17 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/offscreen#rev_3425 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/offscreen#rev_3425 Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review The skill's description is 90 words and SKILL.md is 1,552, and it sets a core rule never to run `xcodebuild test`, the Simulator or built apps on the host, then lists what to ask the person first. Exit codes separate the command's result from a queue timeout (75) and an Offscreen failure (70), and errors name the fix. JSON field names may change before 1.0, and no JSON Schema is published. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 17 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/offscreen#rev_3426 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/offscreen#rev_3426 Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Each VM job runs in a fresh Tart clone deleted afterwards, and the host lane is opt-in, gated on an idle unlocked session with a countdown. Guest SSH uses the base image's `admin` and `admin` login by default, no guest egress policy is documented, and `[prepare] run` executes on the host with the caller's environment. Binaries are ad hoc signed, not notarised, and the cask strips quarantine. No SECURITY.md or advisories. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 17 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/offscreen https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/offscreen#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing Offscreen is an open-source macOS command-line tool, daemon and menu bar app that runs a coding agent's UI tests, iOS Simulator runs and GUI app launches in a fresh Tart virtual machine per job, away from the user's desktop.