“Every Agent Drives a Browser. Nobody Drives Your App.” Bringing mobile app validation into the agentic loop

Agentic testing has transformed how the web gets tested — but it left something behind. The majority of digital time, engagement, and revenue now flows through mobile apps, yet nearly every testing agent shipped in the last two years drives a browser. The industry automated the surface that was easy, not the surface that matters most.

The irony? Agents already know how to work with mobile. Frontier coding agents like Claude now launch iOS simulators on their own to build, run, and verify the apps they’re writing. Development has crossed into the agent era on mobile — testing hasn’t. And the reasons are structural, not incidental: there’s no DOM, only native view hierarchies that shift across iOS, Android, and OS versions. Hybrid apps jump between native screens and WebViews mid-flow. Permissions dialogs, lifecycle events, locales, and network states turn every run into a moving target. The result is what mobile teams live with today — brittle Appium scripts, exploding device matrices, and more effort spent keeping old tests green than covering anything new.

This session brings your mobile app into the full agentic loop — not just authoring, but assurance. With Kane-CLI, you bring an .apk or .ipa, state an objective in plain language, and an agent drives a cloud simulator or emulator to author, execute, and version a complete test. But an agent-authored test is a claim until it’s verified — so we’ll walk the mobile assurance flow end to end: deterministic replay on clean Sim/Emu, evidence capture (video, per-step screenshots, device logs), and maintenance that turns app changes into reviewable diffs instead of broken suites. We’ll unpack how mobile’s messy contexts get modeled rather than fought, show the whole loop in a live terminal-first demo, and close with the roadmap from simulators to real devices.