android-reverse-engineering

A workflow for examining Android application packages and Java libraries by turning them back into readable source code and tracing how they work.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps decompile APK, XAPK, JAR, and AAR files, find HTTP API endpoints, follow UI-to-network call paths, and investigate runtime or native-code behavior when needed.
Why use it?
It helps investigate an app's internal logic and network behavior when the original source code is unavailable.

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/credittone/android-reverse-engineering-skill/android-reverse-engineering
Any agent
npx skills add CreditTone/android-reverse-engineering-skill --skill android-reverse-engineering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CreditTone/android-reverse-engineering-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,118 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00107 $0.04118
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.02059
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00824
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00412

Measured 2d ago against content hash 14b86e873a24, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

android-reverse-engineering scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 17 executable files (scripts/bypass_frida_svc_detect.js, scripts/bypass_root_detect.js, scripts/check-deps.ps1, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

- Installs without sudo when possible (downloads to `~/.local/share/`, symlinks in `~/.local/bin/`)
android-reverse-engineering/skills/android-reverse-engineering/SKILL.md · 367 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 367 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Android Reverse Engineering

Decompile Android APK, XAPK, JAR, and AAR files using jadx and Fernflower/Vineflower, trace call flows through application code and libraries, produce structured documentation of extracted APIs, and escalate to runtime analysis only after static triage shows that it is needed. Two decompiler engines are supported: jadx for broad Android coverage and Fernflower/Vineflower for higher-quality output on complex Java code.

Core Principle

Do not jump straight into Frida, packet capture, or SO analysis. Start with JADX and identify:

  • The network stack in use
  • The request builder or interceptor chain
  • Where signing or encryption appears to happen
  • Whether the logic is visible in Java or delegated to native code

Use dynamic analysis only to confirm or bridge gaps that static analysis cannot resolve.

When to Suggest IDA MCP

IDA MCP provides static binary analysis (disassembly, decompilation, cross-references) for .so files. Do NOT suggest it blindly — check these conditions first:

Suggest IDA MCP when the user asks to:

  • Find function offsets or exports in a specific SO
  • Decompile a known native function to C pseudocode
  • Trace cross-references to a string, symbol, or address
  • Check whether a SO imports crypto/network libraries
  • Analyze a SO that is NOT obfuscated (standard compiler, recognizable function boundaries)

Do NOT suggest IDA MCP when:

  • The SO uses control-flow flattening or similary heavy obfuscation — pseudocode will be unreadable. Use Frida scripts instead.
  • All strings in the SO are encrypted — static search finds nothing. Use jni_method_trace.js to capture runtime decryption.
  • The user needs runtime values (keys, tokens, parameters, decrypted data) — IDA can only show static code.
  • The target SO has not yet been identified — suggest jni_method_trace.js first to find which SO handles the logic.
  • The user needs to compute or generate a signature, ciphertext, or token — this requires runtime execution, not static analysis.

Read the full file on GitHub · 367 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. 2d ago First seen · 367 lines · 107 tokens per session scan B 14b86e873a24

Subscribe to this mod's changes

android-reverse-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository CreditTone/android-reverse-engineering-skill (443 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 4,118 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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