agent-device

A device-control and testing workflow for the Expensify mobile app on iOS and Android phones or emulators. It supports checking, reproducing, debugging, profiling, and verifying app behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test app features, reproduce bugs, investigate performance, debug behavior, and verify fixes on supported iOS or Android builds.
Why use it?
It gives developers a defined process for interacting with the mobile app and catches setup problems before device commands are run.

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/expensify/app/agent-device
Any agent
npx skills add Expensify/App --skill agent-device
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Expensify/App

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,362 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 $0.00045 $0.01362
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00681
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00272
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00136

Measured yesterday against content hash 77083dd45ba2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-device 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.

.claude/skills/agent-device/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

agent-device

Pre-flight (auto)

These checks evaluate at skill load. If any line shows FAIL, stop and surface the fix before running any device command.

agent-device version: !R=0.18.0; V=$(agent-device --version 2>/dev/null); [ -n "$V" ] && [ "$(printf '%s\n%s\n' "$R" "$V" | sort -V | head -1)" = "$R" ] && echo "OK ($V)" || echo "FAIL (need v$R+, got: ${V:-not installed}). Fix: npm install -g agent-device@latest"

Bundled CLI skills dir: !D="$(npm root -g)/agent-device/skills/agent-device"; test -s "$D/SKILL.md" && echo "OK ($D)" || echo "FAIL (missing $D/SKILL.md). Fix: npm install -g agent-device@latest"

HybridApp mode: !M=$(scripts/is-hybrid-app.sh 2>/dev/null | tail -1); [ "$M" = "true" ] && echo "OK (HybridApp)" || echo "FAIL (got: ${M:-unknown}). This skill only supports the HybridApp build - ensure the Mobile-Expensify submodule is present."

Bring-up

Run this sequence the first time the user asks for device interaction in a session, before any open / snapshot / replay.

1. Platform

If the user prompt names ios or android explicitly, use it. Otherwise ask. Only iOS and Android are supported; reject other platforms.

2. Bundle ID

HybridApp dev builds only (the pre-flight gate enforces this).

Platform Bundle ID Build command from App root
ios com.expensify.expensifylite npm run ios
android org.me.mobiexpensifyg.dev npm run android

3. Confirm dev build is installed

agent-device apps --platform <p> --json

If the resolved bundle ID is missing from the list, STOP and instruct the developer to run the matching build command from the App repository root. The build script detects HybridApp mode and builds the native app from Mobile-Expensify/.

4. Metro

agent-device metro prepare --public-base-url http://localhost:8081 --port 8081 --kind react-native

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 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 · 125 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 77083dd45ba2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-device is a skill published in the GitHub repository Expensify/App (5,015 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,362 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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