HOW WE OPTIMIZED AGENT DEVICE FOR MOBILE APP AUTOMATION

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Callstack developed the “agent-device” CLI to enable AI agents to control mobile devices for automated testing, achieving over 50% reduction in LLM token usage by replacing screenshots with trimmed, text-based accessibility-tree snapshots. This method aggressively trims the mobile UI hierarchy to only visible elements, improving the signal-to-noise ratio for the agents and keeping the context window useful longer.