A guide and command-line tool for controlling Android phones and emulators through ADB, the standard Android debugging connection. It supports actions such as tapping, swiping, typing, launching apps, and taking screenshots.

Use it to inspect an Android screen, tap controls, enter text, press keys, open apps, take screenshots, and automate device interactions.

It lets a coding agent interact with an Android device instead of requiring each action to be performed by hand. The device must be connected with USB debugging enabled, or an emulator must be running.

android-use — Skill for Claude Code by iurysza

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 iurysza/android-use --skill android-use

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iurysza/android-use

Made for: Claude Code.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,911 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan C 2 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	$0.00033	$0.02911
Opus 5.5	$0.00013	$0.01164
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00007	$0.00582
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00291

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f67ef37d3311, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

android-use scanned grade C 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 1mo 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iurysza/android-use/main/install.sh | bash

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iurysza/android-use/main/install.sh | bash

SKILL.md · 362 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 362 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Android Device Control

CLI for Android device control via ADB. Requires device connected with USB debugging enabled.

Prerequisites

Before using this skill:

Android device with USB debugging enabled
ADB installed (adb version should work)
Device connected via USB or emulator running

Agent Installation (Autonomous Setup)

When this skill is not installed, agents should:

Run installer (recommended):

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iurysza/android-use/main/install.sh | bash

Installed structure:
- ~/.config/opencode/skill/android-use/SKILL.md
- ~/.config/opencode/skill/android-use/scripts/android-use
- ~/.config/opencode/skill/android-use/references/
- ~/.config/opencode/skill/android-use/assets/
- ~/.config/opencode/skill/android-use/repo/

Verify installation:

~/.config/opencode/skill/android-use/scripts/android-use check-device

Quick Start

android-use check-device        # List connected devices
android-use get-screen          # Get UI hierarchy (compact JSON)
android-use tap 540 960         # Tap at coordinates
android-use type-text "Hello"   # Type text
android-use key HOME            # Press key
android-use screenshot ./screen.png  # Capture screen

Core Agent Workflow

STEP 1: Check device

android-use check-device

Lists all connected devices
Note the serial number if multiple devices
For "phone" use [PHYSICAL] device
For "emulator" use [EMULATOR] device

STEP 2: Get screen state

android-use get-screen

Returns compact JSON with pre-calculated tap coordinates
Search for: text, contentDesc, resourceId
Use the center field for coordinates (e.g., "center": [540, 289])
Cache location: /tmp/.ai-artifacts/skills/android-use/screen.json

STEP 3: Execute action

Tap: android-use tap <center_x> <center_y>
Type: android-use tap <field_x> <field_y> then android-use type-text "text"
Swipe: android-use swipe <x1> <y1> <x2> <y2> [duration_ms]
Key: android-use key <KEY_NAME> (HOME, BACK, ENTER, etc.)

Read the full file on GitHub · 362 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 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.

1mo ago First seen · 362 lines · 33 tokens per session scan C f67ef37d3311

Subscribe to this mod's changes

android-use is a skill published in the GitHub repository iurysza/android-use (21 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 2,911 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, 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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