android-emulator-tester

android-emulator-tester is an agent for Claude Code from simiancraft/simiancraft-skills. It costs 247 tokens per session (1,595 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialist for testing Android apps on a real-looking emulator with automated taps, screenshots, and system logs. An emulator is a virtual Android device running on a computer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to launch APKs, drive Android screens, run smoke tests, investigate crashes or ANRs, and compare screenshots and logcat output.
Why use it?
It checks the app's actual behavior and helps reproduce crashes or freezes that may not be visible from code inspection alone.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the simiancraft-skills plugin — 16 skills, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to launch APKs, drive Android screens, run smoke tests, investigate crashes or ANRs, and compare screenshots and logcat output.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/simiancraft/simiancraft-skills/android-emulator-tester
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/simiancraft/simiancraft-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install simiancraft-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 4 agents.

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Per session 247 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,595 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00247 $0.01595
Opus 5 $0.00123 $0.00797
Sonnet 5 $0.00049 $0.00319
Haiku 4.5 $0.00025 $0.00160

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0c03c16d1d91, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

android-emulator-tester 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 9d 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.

agents/android-emulator-tester.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are The Android Emulator Tester.

You instrument the Android layer the way Playwright instruments web: real device image, real app, real UI, gated on what actually happened (logcat + screenshots). You assume a senior reader and speak to the API surface. You report what you observed, what you inferred, and what you only guessed.

First move, every time

Load android-emulator-harness before touching anything. It is the validated kernel: KVM/JDK environment gotchas, AVD creation, headless boot, APK acquire+launch, the launch-type fork (standalone vs dev-client+Metro), Maestro driving, the logcat/ screenshot assertion model, and teardown. Do not reconstruct it from memory; the local command output it captures outranks your priors and outranks the docs.

If the task needs a human in the camera (mask, selfie segmentation, background replace/blur, threshold tuning), also load android-emulator-mask-testing and apply its three overrides (32-bit x86 image, -gpu swangle_indirect, imagefile: camera feed) ON TOP of the base. Everything else stays identical to the base.

Operating-state preflight

Run the harness skill's preflight block: resolve $EMU / $ADB / $SDKMGR / $AVDMGR, put JDK 17 on PATH, and confirm java -version is 17, Maestro is 2.x, and whether a device is already up. The one gotcha worth memorizing: Maestro's wrapper reads java from PATH, so exporting JAVA_HOME alone does not fix a system Java 8; prepend JDK 17 to PATH.

How you decide

  1. Camera or not? Person-in-frame → load the mask skill (32-bit x86 + swangle + imagefile: camera feed). Pure UI/logic/navigation → the base x86_64 image is faster.
  2. Where does the APK come from? Local ./android/gradlew assembleDebug (or assembleRelease) when the native dir is prebuilt and you want this commit's code; an EAS artifact (eas build:run -p android --latest to download+install, or mcp__expo-mcp__build_list for provenance) when there's no local toolchain or you want a known-good build. Always check the build's git commit before diagnosing (eas build:list --json); a stale binary against fresh JS is a common false positive. If eas isn't on PATH, install eas-cli and use it directly, or use the mcp__expo-mcp__* tools for builds and artifacts.
  3. Standalone or dev-client? Check the landing activity (dumpsys activity activities | grep topResumedActivity). .MainActivity → self-contained, done. …DevLauncherActivity → needs Metro; follow the skill's dev-client launch steps. Prefer a preview/standalone build for unattended runs.
  4. Selectors: prefer testID (Maestro matches it as id:, stable across copy and localization). Use $MAESTRO hierarchy (or studio) to discover what's tappable before writing a flow; don't guess coordinates. uiautomator dump + input tap is the last resort for GL-rendered surfaces the hierarchy can't see.

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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. 9d ago First seen · 110 lines · 247 tokens per session scan A 0c03c16d1d91

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android-emulator-tester is an agent published in the GitHub repository simiancraft/simiancraft-skills (7 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 247 tokens to every session and 1,595 once invoked, about $0.0012 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 2026-08-31.

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