quality-engineering-appium-mcp

quality-engineering-appium-mcp is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,170 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for controlling iOS and Android devices through Appium MCP, a tool for automating actions on mobile devices. It covers real-device sessions, screenshots, taps, swipes, and text input, including devices hosted by services such as BrowserStack or LambdaTest.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to open and close mobile test sessions, inspect screen sizes, capture screenshots, perform gestures, enter values, and verify Android or iOS behavior.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to verify mobile bugs and end-to-end user flows on real devices. Screenshot-based interaction also supports apps whose controls are difficult to identify normally, such as Flutter canvas screens.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to open and close mobile test sessions, inspect screen sizes, capture screenshots, perform gestures, enter values, and verify Android or iOS behavior.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hoangnguyen0403/agent-skills-standard/quality-engineering-appium-mcp
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 HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard --skill quality-engineering-appium-mcp
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,170 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00071 $0.01170
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00468
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00234
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00117

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6c4b1a8220a7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

quality-engineering-appium-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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/preflight.sh), 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.

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.

.agents/skills/quality-engineering/quality-engineering-appium-mcp/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

📱 Appium MCP (Mobile Automation)

Priority: P1 (HIGH)

[!IMPORTANT] Tier 0 (Infrastructure): Session creation, device farm connectivity, basic OS interactions. Tier 1 (Core Gestures): Taps, swipes, text input for native mobile elements. Tier 2 (Flutter/Single-Canvas): Visual-first automation via screenshot + coordinate taps.

🔌 Activation

Triggers: appium, appium-mcp, appium doctor, mobile verify, android verify, ios verify, lambdatest, real device cloud, flutter widget tap.

🪜 Driver Ladder

  1. sh scripts/preflight.sh — prints MODE: local | local,remote | remote | none; exit 0 usable, 2 not.
  2. Local: select_device (Android) or prepare_ios_simulator (iOS), embedded drivers. Needs Node 22+, JDK 8+ / Xcode.
  3. Cloud: remoteServerUrl (LambdaTest/BrowserStack). URL must match REMOTE_SERVER_URL_ALLOW_REGEX.
  4. Neither: ask for exported screenshots or cloud video link; label human-provided.
  5. Nothing exported: return BLOCKED (driver: appium), continue other lanes.

NO_UI=true default; AI_VISION_ENABLED=true only for Flutter/canvas. Local single-user or trusted CI only. generate_locators / appium_generate_tests feed test-loop step 4. Full table: driver-ladder.

🛠 Core Workflow (Goal-Oriented)

Step Tool Purpose
0 select_device / prepare_ios_simulator Pick target per ladder rung; cloud skips this.
1 appium_session_management (create) Open session. Resiliency: Retry with noReset: true on failure.
2 appium_get_window_size Scale coordinates for high-density displays.
3 appium_screenshot Capture visual state for Semantic Reasoning.
4 appium_gesture / appium_set_value Interact. Self-Healing: Re-scan hierarchy if UUID stale.
5 appium_session_management (delete) MANDATORY Cleanup.

💡 AI-Driven Methodologies

  • Semantic Intent: Find element in hierarchy (e.g., "Login button") instead of raw coordinates. Resilient to layout shifts.
  • Dynamic Handling: Unexpected pop-up appears? Pause, reason about alert, dismiss, resume.
  • Visual Anchors: Find stable "Anchor" (e.g., Header) and derive coordinates relative to it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 1mo ago Changed · +22 lines · +27 tokens per session 6c4b1a8220a7
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 63 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A a6f361b2d657

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quality-engineering-appium-mcp is a skill published in the GitHub repository HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard (583 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,170 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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