android-adb-skill: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

android-adb-skill copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from amit-nayar/android-adb-skill. It costs 104 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for controlling Android devices through ADB, the command-line tool that communicates with Android phones and emulators. They define a shared command layer for screenshots, interface inspection, gestures, app management, and debugging.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to automate Android UI actions, inspect screens, take screenshots, manage apps, wait for interface elements, and debug device behaviour.
Why use it?
They reduce reliance on raw ADB commands and encourage structured output and state checks after each interaction. This helps the agent confirm that an action actually changed the device as expected.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is amit-nayar/android-adb-skill's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on android-adb-skill itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything android-adb-skill configures →

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is ./tools/android ....

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to amit-nayar/android-adb-skill. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/amit-nayar/android-adb-skill/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/amit-nayar/android-adb-skill

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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When invoked 104 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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.
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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 $0.00104 $0.00104
Opus 5.5 $0.00042 $0.00042
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00021
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00010

Measured 2mo ago against content hash ff2a5402e3e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

android-adb-skill copilot-instructions.md 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 2mo 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.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 16 lines

What it actually says

Android Automation

Prefer the local command layer:

./tools/android ...

Read docs/command-contract.md for the command surface and skills/*/SKILL.md for task-specific workflow guidance.

Default behavior:

  • Prefer ./tools/android ... --json over raw adb.
  • Pass --device <id> when the target device is known or multiple devices are connected.
  • Verify state after each interaction with ui dump, wait element, or screenshot.
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. 2mo ago First seen · 16 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A ff2a5402e3e6

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android-adb-skill copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository amit-nayar/android-adb-skill (29 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 104 tokens to every session, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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