mobile-debug-mcp

mobile-debug-mcp is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from clivejefferies/mobile-debug-tools. It costs 39 tokens per session (837 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A mobile testing skill for checking Android app behaviour on a real device or emulator, including screens, background work, and notifications.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for Android end-to-end testing, session playback, notification checks, screenshots, and accessibility assertions.
Why use it?
A tap succeeding does not prove that the app produced the expected result; this approach checks the resulting visible or saved state.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for Android end-to-end testing, session playback, notification checks, screenshots, and accessibility assertions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/clivejefferies/mobile-debug-tools/mobile-debug-tools-usage
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 clivejefferies/mobile-debug-tools --skill mobile-debug-tools-usage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/clivejefferies/mobile-debug-tools

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 837 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.
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 $0.00039 $0.00837
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00335
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00167
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00084

Measured yesterday against content hash b3347226e741, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-28, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mobile-debug-mcp 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.

skills/mobile-debug-tools-usage/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Mobile-debug MCP verification

Use mobile-debug MCP to make a product claim observable on a real device or emulator. A successful tap proves only that the input was delivered; verify the resulting UI, notification, or persisted state before reporting success.

Choose the lightest evidence that proves the claim

  • Use an accessibility assertion such as expect_element_visible or wait_for_ui for an accessible label, enabled state, or changed control.
  • Use a screenshot when visual layout, system UI, or notification content matters.
  • Use a debug snapshot only when the screen does not explain a failed action or an accessibility-tree assertion is needed.
  • Use Android shell commands only for device navigation or system surfaces that MCP cannot expose. Do not treat shell output as proof of user-visible behaviour.

Avoid repeated screenshots and snapshots when a targeted accessibility assertion is enough.

Keep interaction fast

Treat each MCP call as a round trip and use the fastest path that still proves the behaviour. Prefer the following sequence:

  1. Wait for one stable, uniquely identifiable control.
  2. Tap its returned element id.
  3. Wait for the specific resulting state.

Do not wait before every tap when the current screen and element id are already known. Do not poll unchanged screens. Use short timeouts for ordinary controls; reserve longer waits for known asynchronous work such as model initialisation or network calls.

Use compact responses for routine actions. If action dispatch is reliable but verification is slow or unavailable, dispatch with verification disabled and verify at meaningful checkpoints with one focused accessibility assertion or screenshot. Do not assume light verification is faster: use it only when it has returned useful results reliably on the current MCP version and device.

Prefer a stable element selector when the accessibility tree exposes one. Use coordinates only when needed, and take a fresh screenshot immediately before a coordinate tap on system UI, notifications, or any screen where layout may have changed. Never reuse coordinates after expanding/collapsing a notification, changing orientation, or switching screens.

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 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. yesterday First seen · 75 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A b3347226e741

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mobile-debug-mcp is a skill published in the GitHub repository clivejefferies/mobile-debug-tools (11 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 837 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-28.

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