android-skills

A collection of Google's official instructions and reference materials for AI assistants working on Android apps. Android is Google's operating system and development platform for mobile devices and other products.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for tasks involving Android build upgrades, camera features, Jetpack Compose screens and themes, media, navigation, identity, and Android command-line tools.
Why use it?
It gives an assistant guidance for Android-specific development tasks and recommended implementation patterns instead of relying only on general programming knowledge.

Plugin 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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add android/skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/android/skills/marketplace
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/android/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

android-skills 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 yesterday.

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-plugin/marketplace.json · 45 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "android-skills",
  "owner": {
    "name": "Google / Android"
  },
  "plugins": [
    {
      "name": "android-skills",
      "description": "Android skills are Google's official dedicated repository of AI-optimized, modular instructions and resources, to help LLMs better understand and execute specific patterns that follow the best practices and guidance on Android development. Android skills follow the open-standard agent skills - markdown files (SKILL.md) that provide a technical specification of a task, and ground LLMs with information on specialized domains and workflows.",
      "author": {
        "name": "Google / Android"
      },
      "category": "development",
      "source": "./",
      "strict": false,
      "skills": [
        "./build-system/agp/agp-9-upgrade",
        "./camera/camerax",
        "./device-ai/appfunctions",
        "./devtools/android-cli",
        "./identity/restore-credentials",
        "./identity/verified-email",
        "./jetpack-compose/adaptive",
        "./jetpack-compose/migration/migrate-xml-views-to-jetpack-compose",
        "./jetpack-compose/theming/styles",
        "./media/media3-cast-integration",
        "./navigation/navigation-3",
        "./performance/r8-analyzer",
        "./play/engage-sdk-integration",
        "./play/play-billing-library-version-upgrade",
        "./play/play-policy-insights",
        "./profilers/android-profiler",
        "./security/android-intent-security",
        "./system/edge-to-edge",
        "./testing/testing-setup",
        "./tv/leanback-to-compose-tv-migration",
        "./wear/wear-compose-m3",
        "./xr/display-glasses-with-jetpack-compose-glimmer"
      ],
      "homepage": "https://github.com/android/skills",
      "license": "Apache-2.0"
    }
  ]
}
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. yesterday First seen · 45 lines scan A 56d9c4aad854

Subscribe to this mod's changes

android-skills is a plugin published in the GitHub repository android/skills (7,097 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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.