android-reverse-engineering

A toolkit for examining Android app packages such as APKs and AABs by turning them back into readable code and tracing how the app communicates with servers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect Android apps, find API endpoints, follow paths from screens to network requests, review security patterns, and perform runtime analysis with Frida on a device or emulator.
Why use it?
It helps developers understand an app when its original source code is unavailable, including its network behavior and security protections.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 196 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,966 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 2 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 $0.00196 $0.07966
Opus 5 $0.00098 $0.03983
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.01593
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00797

Measured 2d ago against content hash c7ac74282e56, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

android-reverse-engineering scanned grade A with 2 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 10 executable files (scripts/adb-crash-capture.sh, scripts/check-deps.sh, scripts/decompile.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.

Asks for rootlowPrivilege 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/`)

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

See `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/android-reverse-engineering/references/firebase-google-api-testing.md` for the full response-interpretation table (`SERVICE_DISABLED`, `PERMISSION_DENIED`, `ADMIN_ONLY_OPERATION`, `OPERA
plugins/android-reverse-engineering/skills/android-reverse-engineering/SKILL.md · 570 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 570 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Android Reverse Engineering

Decompile Android APK, XAPK, AAB, DEX, JAR, and AAR files using jadx and Fernflower/Vineflower, trace call flows through application code and libraries, analyze security patterns, produce structured documentation of extracted APIs, and perform adaptive dynamic analysis with Frida — generating custom bypass scripts based on what the static analysis finds, iterating through crash logs to refine hooks until protections are bypassed. Two decompiler engines are supported — jadx for broad Android coverage and Fernflower for higher-quality output on complex Java code — and can be used together for comparison.

Prerequisites

This skill requires Java JDK 17+ and jadx to be installed. Fernflower/Vineflower and dex2jar are optional but recommended for better decompilation quality. bundletool is required for AAB (App Bundle) files. For dynamic analysis (Phase 7), Python 3.8+, adb, and a device/emulator with frida-server are needed — the setup-frida.sh script handles the full setup. Run the dependency checker to verify:

bash ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/android-reverse-engineering/scripts/check-deps.sh

If anything is missing, follow the installation instructions in ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/android-reverse-engineering/references/setup-guide.md.

Workflow

Phase 1: Verify and Install Dependencies

Before decompiling, confirm that the required tools are available — and install any that are missing.

Action: Run the dependency check script.

bash ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/android-reverse-engineering/scripts/check-deps.sh

The output contains machine-readable lines:

  • INSTALL_REQUIRED:<dep> — must be installed before proceeding
  • INSTALL_OPTIONAL:<dep> — recommended but not blocking

If required dependencies are missing (exit code 1), install them automatically:

bash ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/android-reverse-engineering/scripts/install-dep.sh <dep>

Read the full file on GitHub · 570 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 · 570 lines · 196 tokens per session scan A c7ac74282e56

Subscribe to this mod's changes

android-reverse-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository incogbyte/android-reverse-engineering-claude-skill (109 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Unlicense. It adds 196 tokens to every session and 7,966 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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