android-device

android-device is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from amit-nayar/android-adb-skill. It costs 16 tokens per session (146 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-based tool for managing Android phones and emulators, which are software versions of Android devices running on a computer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Listing connected devices and virtual devices, viewing device information, starting named Android emulators, and waiting for them to finish booting.
Why use it?
It makes it easier to see available devices, select the right one, inspect its details, and start an emulator when needed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the android-adb-skill plugin — 11 skills shipped together

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 skills/amit-nayar/android-adb-skill/android-device
Any agent
npx skills add amit-nayar/android-adb-skill --skill android-device
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/amit-nayar/android-adb-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install android-adb-skill, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

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agentmods badge for android-device

README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/amit-nayar/android-adb-skill/android-device"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/amit-nayar/android-adb-skill/android-device.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 146 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 $0.00016 $0.00146
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00073
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00029
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00015

Measured 4d ago against content hash f331ac975b0e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

android-device 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.

skills/android-device/SKILL.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

Use:

  • ./tools/android device list --json
  • ./tools/android device info --json
  • ./tools/android device avds --json
  • ./tools/android device start-emulator --avd-name ... --json

Guidelines:

  1. Report connected devices first when the request is ambiguous.
  2. Use explicit device IDs when multiple devices are attached.
  3. After starting an emulator, wait for boot completion before handing control back.
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 · 20 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A f331ac975b0e

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android-device is a skill published in the GitHub repository amit-nayar/android-adb-skill (23 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 146 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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