using-fdb

A command-line tool for controlling and inspecting running Flutter apps on phones, emulators, and simulators. It can launch or connect to an app, reload it, capture screenshots, and read app and device logs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start or attach to Flutter apps, hot reload changes, take screenshots, inspect logs, read native system logs, and retrieve operating-system crash reports.
Why use it?
It removes the need to switch between several debugging tools when testing a Flutter app. It also helps collect crash records and system information from the device.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/andrzejchm/fdb/skill
Any agent
npx skills add andrzejchm/fdb --skill skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/andrzejchm/fdb

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 247 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 933 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 $0.00247 $0.00933
Opus 5 $0.00123 $0.00466
Sonnet 5 $0.00049 $0.00187
Haiku 4.5 $0.00025 $0.00093

Measured 2d ago against content hash 632c06915af9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-fdb 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 2d 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.

lib/skill/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview - skill version 1.11.1

Version check: Run fdb --version. Expected: fdb 1.11.1. This skill may describe unreleased branch behavior. Update: dart pub global activate --source git https://github.com/andrzejchm/fdb.git

Install

dart pub global activate --source git https://github.com/andrzejchm/fdb.git

Verify: fdb status

fdb_helper setup (required for in-app UI/data commands)

The describe, tap, double-tap, longpress, input, scroll, scroll-to, wait, swipe, swipe-path, back, clean, and shared-prefs commands require fdb_helper in the Flutter app under test. Some platform screenshot fallbacks also use it. Adding fdb_helper also enables automatic VM service URI discovery for fdb attach on Android and iOS — no manual --debug-url needed.

pubspec.yaml:

dev_dependencies:
  fdb_helper: ^1.11.1

main.dart:

import 'package:fdb_helper/fdb_helper.dart';
import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart';

void main() {
  if (!kReleaseMode) {
    FdbBinding.ensureInitialized();
  }
  runApp(MyApp());
}

After adding fdb_helper, run flutter pub get and relaunch the app.

Command index

Run fdb skill <topic> to print full docs, flags, output tokens, and best practices for a topic.

Topic Commands Run
launch devices, launch, attach, doctor, reload, restart, status, kill, deeplink fdb skill launch
interact screenshot, tree, describe, select, selected, native-tap, tap, longpress, double-tap, input, scroll, scroll-to, swipe, swipe-path, back fdb skill interact
data shared-prefs, clean, ext, grant-permission fdb skill data
diagnostics logs, syslog, crash-report + websocat fallback fdb skill diagnostics
memory mem, gc, heap fdb skill memory
simulator simulator (appearance, text-size, status-bar, location, push, defaults) fdb skill simulator

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2d ago First seen · 62 lines · 247 tokens per session scan A 632c06915af9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

using-fdb is a skill published in the GitHub repository andrzejchm/fdb (45 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 247 tokens to every session and 933 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 2026-08-30.

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