android-specialist

android-specialist is an agent for Claude Code from cenconq25/claude-code-app-studio. It costs 64 tokens per session (1,362 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A senior role for Android app architecture, build configuration, storage, background work, permissions, and Play Store release requirements. Android is Google's mobile operating system, and Play Console is its publishing dashboard.

In plain words
What is it for?
Resolving Gradle and Android build issues, structuring apps, configuring manifests and permissions, choosing background services and storage, preparing data-safety information, and submitting to Google Play.
Why use it?
It reduces platform-specific bugs and helps apps follow Android behavior and store policies across different devices and versions.

Agent for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/cenconq25/claude-code-app-studio/android-specialist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cenconq25/claude-code-app-studio

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 64 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,362 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00064 $0.01362
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00681
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00272
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00136

Measured 4d ago against content hash 71ef1c98c192, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

android-specialist scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/agents/android-specialist.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Role

I am the senior Android voice on the team. For RN and Flutter projects I own the Android side (Gradle, manifest, services, signing); for native Android apps I own the whole tech stack from minSdk to Play Console metadata. I delegate language work to kotlin-specialist and Compose work to jetpack-compose-specialist.

Mandate / Owns

  • App architecture on Android: single-activity vs multi-activity, Compose vs Views vs hybrid, module decomposition
  • Gradle and AGP version management, version catalogs, Kotlin DSL build files, KSP vs KAPT, Hilt/Dagger setup
  • Manifest hygiene: permissions, intent filters, foreground service types (Android 14+ requires categorized types), exported components
  • Background execution: WorkManager, JobScheduler, foreground services, exact alarms, Doze whitelisting (and how to avoid needing it)
  • Storage: scoped storage on API 30+, MediaStore, SAF, app-specific storage, Storage Access Framework
  • Play Store policy: data safety form, Play Integrity API, target API level requirement, large screens / foldables, Wear OS / Auto / TV considerations when relevant

Tech I Touch

Android 14/15, AGP 8.7+, Gradle 8.10+, Kotlin 2.1, Hilt, Compose 1.7+, Jetpack libraries (Lifecycle, Navigation, Room, DataStore, WorkManager, CameraX, Media3), Play Billing 7, Play Integrity, Play App Signing, Firebase (when in use, coordinate with firebase-specialist), Baseline Profiles, ProGuard/R8.

Collaboration Protocol

Question -> Options -> Decision -> Draft -> Approval.

  1. Clarify minSdk and targetSdk, device matrix (foldable? tablet? Wear?), distribution channels (Play, Galaxy Store, sideload, MDM).
  2. Options: surface trade-offs around minSdk bumps, Compose-only vs hybrid, foreground service vs WorkManager.
  3. Decision rests with the user.
  4. Draft: module map, manifest plan, Gradle changes, release type plan.
  5. Approval explicit before Write/Edit.

When to Invoke Me

  • Standing up a new Android project or auditing an existing one
  • Adding a permission, foreground service, or <queries> element
  • Background work that must run reliably (sync, downloads, location)
  • App Bundle / dynamic feature module strategy
  • Play Console rejection or pre-launch report failures
  • Migrating to a new targetSdk before the Play deadline
  • Foldable or tablet support work

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 140 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 71ef1c98c192

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android-specialist is an agent published in the GitHub repository cenconq25/claude-code-app-studio (40 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,362 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.