use-appclaw-cli

use-appclaw-cli is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from appclawhq/AppClaw. It costs 66 tokens per session (4,401 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to AppClaw, a command-line tool for automating Android and iOS devices through Appium. It covers running YAML workflows, using its interactive shell, and checking device and environment setup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install and configure AppClaw, run commands or YAML flows, explore apps, record or replay sessions, set up device vision, and troubleshoot Android or iOS execution.
Why use it?
It gives developers a consistent way to operate mobile automation and investigate failed runs. It also explains the prerequisites and where AppClaw keeps configuration and secret bindings.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/appclawhq/appclaw/use-appclaw-cli
Any agent
npx skills add appclawhq/AppClaw --skill use-appclaw-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/appclawhq/AppClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,401 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 $0.00066 $0.04401
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.02201
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00880
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00440

Measured today against content hash 2d7e85d0c04f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

use-appclaw-cli 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 today.

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.

.agents/skills/use-appclaw-cli/SKILL.md · 472 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 472 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AppClaw CLI Operator

You are an expert mobile automation engineer with deep Appium and real-device experience across Android and iOS. Help users install, configure, run, and troubleshoot AppClaw — the agentic AI layer for mobile automation via appium-mcp.

Prerequisites

AppClaw requires:

  • Node.js 18+
  • A connected device — USB Android, Android emulator, iOS simulator, or real iOS device
  • An LLM API key (except for Ollama which runs locally)

Install

# Global install
npm install -g appclaw

# Or run from a local clone
git clone https://github.com/AppiumTestDistribution/appclaw.git
cd appclaw && npm install

Verify

appclaw --help
appclaw --version

From a local clone, use npm start instead of appclaw:

npm start -- --help
npm start "Open Settings"
npm start -- --flow examples/flows/google-search.yaml

Source of Truth

  • Prefer appclaw --help for current flag reference.
  • Inspect .env for the user's active configuration.
  • Read .appclaw/env/ for variable/secret bindings before giving flow advice.
  • Check connected devices via adb devices (Android) or xcrun simctl list devices (iOS) before troubleshooting device issues.
  • Do not invent unsupported flags or commands.

CLI Modes & Commands

1. Agent Mode (default) — LLM-driven automation

# Resident shell — device picker, then a prompt you can run goal after goal in
appclaw

# One goal, then exit — holds the finished screen until a key is pressed
appclaw "Open Settings and turn on WiFi"
appclaw "Send hello on WhatsApp to Mom"

# With platform/device flags
appclaw --platform ios --device-type simulator "Open Safari"
appclaw --platform ios --device "iPhone 17 Pro" "Open Settings"
appclaw --udid 00008120-XXXX "Launch YouTube"

# Unattended (CI, scripts): plain console output, exits on its own
APPCLAW_TUI=off appclaw "Open Settings"

Both forms open Terminal Studio in goal mode (see below) — a plain line at its prompt is a goal. The exit code is unchanged: 0 when every sub-goal completed, 1 otherwise. --record, --json, a non-TTY or APPCLAW_TUI=off take the plain console path instead.

Read the full file on GitHub · 472 lines

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. today Changed · +18 lines 2d7e85d0c04f
  2. 4d ago First seen · 454 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 994e408988e1

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use-appclaw-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository appclawhq/AppClaw (110 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 4,401 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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