device-session-lifecycle

device-session-lifecycle is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kaeawc/auto-mobile. It costs 122 tokens per session (4,228 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A troubleshooting guide for device-session lifecycle bugs in AutoMobile, covering device startup, shutdown, readiness, expiry, release, and pool-state races. A device session is the tracked connection between a test or client and a device.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when fixing bugs involving device sessions, daemon restarts, boot readiness, session expiry, device pools, or unreliable lifecycle tests.
Why use it?
It helps developers distinguish several similar session identifiers and preserve the rules needed to avoid devices becoming stuck, misassigned, or incorrectly marked available.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the auto-mobile plugin — 18 skills, 9 commands, 1 hook, 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/kaeawc/auto-mobile/device-session-lifecycle
Any agent
npx skills add kaeawc/auto-mobile --skill device-session-lifecycle
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kaeawc/auto-mobile

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install auto-mobile, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 9 commands, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,228 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 $0.00122 $0.04228
Opus 5 $0.00061 $0.02114
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00846
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00423

Measured 4d ago against content hash 9a61584350cd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

device-session-lifecycle 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 4d 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.

skills/device-session-lifecycle/SKILL.md · 281 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 281 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Device Session Lifecycle — Hunting & Fixing

The device session layer is where AutoMobile has shipped the most regressions. The bug classes repeat; the fixes that stuck follow a small set of patterns. This skill encodes both, plus the invariants any change must preserve.

Line refs are against main @ 2026-08-20 (post PR #5419). They drift — verify with grep before citing. Full bug history: references/history.md.

1. Four identifiers, three lifecycles — never conflate them

Identifier Minted by Meaning Persisted
sessionUuid IdGenerator in startDevice (src/server/deviceTools.ts), autolock (src/daemon/devicePool.ts), or client-supplied Who is driving: client/test session owning one device; caches, tool-selection profile yes (device_sessions table)
deviceSessionUuid src/daemon/deviceSessionRegistry.ts One device connection epoch: minted per pool incarnation, retired on disconnect, re-minted on reconnect even for the same serial. Stream routing key no — meaningless across daemon restarts
__mcpSessionId socket-server connection / MCP transport Per-connection transport identity; implicit autolock resolution no
deviceId (serial/UDID) adb / simctl Human label + adb target only. Mutable across reboots — never an identity key n/a

Read the full file on GitHub · 281 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 4d ago First seen · 281 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A 9a61584350cd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

device-session-lifecycle is a skill published in the GitHub repository kaeawc/auto-mobile (45 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 4,228 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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