A command-line toolkit for managing Android software development tools, devices, and emulators.

Use it to manage SDK packages, start or stop emulators, install APK files, view device logs, take screenshots, and run Gradle builds.

It puts common Android setup, app installation, testing, and diagnostic tasks behind one interface instead of requiring separate tools.

How ErikHellman/cli-for-android configures Claude Code

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Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 639 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00055	$0.00639
Opus 5.5	$0.00022	$0.00256
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00011	$0.00128
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00064

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 9946e050868e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

acli 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 2mo 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.

.claude/skills/acli/SKILL.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You have access to the acli command, which provides a unified interface to all Android development tools.

Device & Emulator Management

acli device list --json                          # list devices/emulators with serials
acli device -d <serial> info                     # model, Android version, API level, ABI
acli device -d <serial> install path/to/app.apk  # install APK
acli device -d <serial> logs --follow --level E  # stream error logs
acli device -d <serial> screenshot screen.png    # capture screen
acli avd list --json                             # list AVDs
acli avd start <name> --headless --wait-boot     # start emulator, wait for boot
acli avd stop <serial>                           # stop a running emulator

SDK Management

acli sdk list --installed --json                 # list installed packages
acli sdk list --updates                          # list packages with updates
acli sdk install "platforms;android-35"          # install a package
acli sdk licenses                                # accept all pending licenses

App Management

acli app list --json                             # list all installed apps
acli app launch <package>                        # launch an app
acli app stop <package>                          # force-stop an app
acli app clear <package>                         # clear app data
acli app deep-link <uri>                         # open a URI deep link

Build

acli build assemble --variant debug              # build debug APK
acli build test --unit                           # run unit tests
acli build clean                                 # clean build outputs

Device Instrumentation

acli instrument battery --level 10 --status discharging
acli instrument network --speed edge --latency gprs
acli instrument location --lat 37.7749 --lng -122.4194
acli instrument input text "Hello World"
acli instrument input tap 540 960

Environment Health

acli doctor --json                               # full environment check (parseable)

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 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.

2mo ago First seen · 78 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 9946e050868e

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acli is a skill published in the GitHub repository ErikHellman/cli-for-android (119 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 639 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 2026-08-30.

Mobile

acli next to 6 skills from other repositories
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acliErikHellman/cli-for-android	Skill	119	7mo ago	MIT	A	55	Claude Code
orca-emulator-androidstablyai/orca	Skill	117k	yesterday	MIT	A	102	Claude Code, Codex
glance-canonical-layoutsandroid/skills	Skill	10k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	56	Claude Code
android-tombstone-symbolicationdotnet/skills	Skill	5.8k	yesterday	MIT	A	176	Claude Code
dogfoodcallstack/agent-device	Skill	5.3k	yesterday	MIT	A	55	Claude Code
winapp-mauimicrosoft/winappCli	Skill	1.4k	yesterday	MIT	A	68	Claude Code
app_remixrome-os/rome	Skill	889	yesterday	MIT	A	50	Claude Code, Codex

cli-for-android: Skill for Claude Code