aosp-native-foundation

aosp-native-foundation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aospbooks/aosp-internal-book. It costs 152 tokens per session (593 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A reference guide to Android's low-level native foundation: its C library, dynamic linker, memory management, Binder communication, hardware abstraction layer, and native development kit. Binder is Android's system for communication between processes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to reason about Bionic, linker namespaces, memory pressure, Binder and AIDL, HIDL, Treble, hardware interfaces, native APIs, JNI, and binary compatibility.
Why use it?
It helps developers understand the foundations shared by Android apps, framework services, and device-specific code, including how processes communicate and access hardware.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to reason about Bionic, linker namespaces, memory pressure, Binder and AIDL, HIDL, Treble, hardware interfaces, native APIs, JNI, and binary compatibility.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aospbooks/aosp-internal-book/native-foundation
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.

Any agent
npx skills add aospbooks/aosp-internal-book --skill native-foundation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aospbooks/aosp-internal-book

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 152 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 593 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00152 $0.00593
Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.00296
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00119
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00059

Measured 9d ago against content hash 19295860c06a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aosp-native-foundation 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

agents/_content/parts/native-foundation/SKILL.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

AOSP Part III — Native Foundation

The C/C++ layer that everything above sits on: libc, the dynamic linker, memory infrastructure, the IPC backbone (Binder), the vendor/system contract (HAL/Treble), and the NDK that exposes a subset of native APIs to apps.

Chapters in this Part

  • 07-bionic-and-linker.md — Bionic libc/libm/libdl, linker64, namespaces, GWP-ASan / MTE, app_process
  • 08-memory-management.md — jemalloc/scudo, ashmem/memfd, ION/dma-buf, lmkd, PSI, kswapd, OOM adjustments
  • 09-binder-ipc.md — /dev/binder, parcels, transactions, one-copy semantics, AIDL/HIDL/NDK Binder, servicemanager, threadpool, death recipients
  • 10-hal.md — Treble, HIDL→AIDL HAL migration, vendor/system partition split, hwservicemanager vs. servicemanager, VINTF
  • 11-ndk.md — native APIs exposed to apps, libandroid, JNI bindings, ABI compatibility, sysroot layout

When to load which chapter

  • Question mentions libc, linker, namespaces, MTE, GWP-ASan, app_process → 07-bionic-and-linker.md
  • Question mentions LMK, jemalloc, scudo, ION, dma-buf, PSI, OOM → 08-memory-management.md
  • Question mentions Binder, parcels, AIDL, HIDL, NDK Binder, servicemanager, one-copy → 09-binder-ipc.md
  • Question mentions Treble, HAL, VINTF, vendor partition, hwservicemanager → 10-hal.md
  • Question mentions NDK, libandroid, JNI, sysroot, ABI → 11-ndk.md
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 · 38 lines · 152 tokens per session scan A 19295860c06a

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aosp-native-foundation is a skill published in the GitHub repository aospbooks/aosp-internal-book (131 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 152 tokens to every session and 593 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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