firebase-remote-config-basics

firebase-remote-config-basics is a skill for Claude Code from firebase/agent-skills. It costs 86 tokens per session (1,091 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for managing Firebase Remote Config, a cloud-held set of settings that can change an Android or iPhone app without publishing a new version.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, download, deploy, and version Remote Config templates, set default values, and connect Android or iOS apps to Firebase Remote Config.
Why use it?
It helps developers update app behavior, appearance, and feature flags from configuration instead of rebuilding and releasing the app each time.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the firebase plugin — 12 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

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/firebase/agent-skills/firebase-remote-config-basics
Any agent
npx skills add firebase/agent-skills --skill firebase-remote-config-basics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/firebase/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install firebase, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,091 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 5.1 $0.00086 $0.01091
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00545
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00218
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00109

Measured 6d ago against content hash afc121c73973, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

firebase-remote-config-basics 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 6d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/firebase-remote-config-basics/SKILL.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Remote Config

This skill provides a complete guide for getting started with Remote Config on Android or iOS. Remote Config allows you to change the behavior and appearance of your app without publishing an app update by maintaining a cloud-based configuration template.

Prerequisites

Provisioning Remote Config requires both a Firebase project and a Firebase app, either Android or iOS. To manage the Remote Config template and conditions via the command line, use the Firebase CLI. See the firebase-basics skill for references on project initialization.

Troubleshooting Execution

Handling npx 403 Forbidden Errors

If npx -y firebase-tools@latest fails due to registry permissions (403 error):

  1. Inform the user: "I am unable to fetch the latest Firebase tools via npx due to a registry error."
  2. Fallback: Attempt to use the local firebase command directly if the user confirms it is installed globally (npm install -g firebase-tools).

Handling Project Context Issues

If a command fails because "no active project is selected":

  1. Check login: Run npx -y firebase-tools@latest login:list.
  2. Prompt for ID: If logged in but no project is active, ask the user: "Please provide your Firebase Project ID to proceed."
  3. Use Flag: Append --project <PROJECT_ID> to every subsequent command.

SDK Setup

To learn how to set up Remote Config in your application code, choose your platform:

Best Practices and Template Management

Follow these guidelines and use the associated CLI tools to ensure efficient and safe use of Remote Config.

Fetching Strategies

To optimize app performance and user experience, follow these recommended patterns (see Loading Strategies):

  • Load new values for next startup: The most effective pattern is to activate previously fetched values immediately on startup and fetch new values in the background to be used next time. This minimizes user wait time.
  • Real-time Updates: Use the SDK's real-time listener to update the app instantly without a refresh when server-side configuration changes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 6d ago First seen · 129 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A afc121c73973

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firebase-remote-config-basics is a skill published in the GitHub repository firebase/agent-skills (434 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 1,091 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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