hal-vendor-interface-expert

hal-vendor-interface-expert is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jonaschen/Android-Software. It costs 6 tokens per session (1,978 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

An Android hardware-interface guidance skill covering Treble, the design that separates Android framework code from vendor code, and AIDL versus HIDL interfaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for HAL, vendor-interface, Treble, AIDL, and HIDL questions.
Why use it?
It helps clarify how Android communicates with hardware components across framework and vendor boundaries.

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/jonaschen/android-software/l2-hal-vendor-interface-expert
Any agent
npx skills add jonaschen/Android-Software --skill l2-hal-vendor-interface-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonaschen/Android-Software

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for hal-vendor-interface-expert

README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jonaschen/android-software/l2-hal-vendor-interface-expert"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jonaschen/android-software/l2-hal-vendor-interface-expert.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 6 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,978 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00006 $0.01978
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00989
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00396
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00198

Measured 5d ago against content hash abde121d6557, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hal-vendor-interface-expert 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 5d ago.

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

skills/L2-hal-vendor-interface-expert/SKILL.md · 209 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 5d ago First seen · 209 lines · 6 tokens per session scan A abde121d6557

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hal-vendor-interface-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository jonaschen/Android-Software (44 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 6 tokens to every session and 1,978 once invoked, about $0.0000 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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