android-security-best-practices

android-security-best-practices is a skill for Codex from krutikJain/android-agent-skills. It costs 27 tokens per session (1,172 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist for protecting Android apps, including secrets, local storage, network connections, exported app components, and permissions. Exported components are app entry points that other apps may be allowed to call.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review manifests, deep links, file sharing, WebViews, stored data, backups, network trust settings, and release hardening.
Why use it?
It helps reduce common attack paths such as exposed activities, leaked tokens, unsafe backups, insecure logs, and overly broad access.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to review manifests, deep links, file sharing, WebViews, stored data, backups, network trust settings, and release hardening.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/krutikjain/android-agent-skills/android-security-best-practices
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 krutikJain/android-agent-skills --skill android-security-best-practices
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/krutikJain/android-agent-skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,172 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.
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 $0.00027 $0.01172
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00586
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00234
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00117

Measured 7d ago against content hash 954c494401e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

android-security-best-practices 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/run_examples.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.

.github/skills/android-security-best-practices/SKILL.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Android Security Best Practices

When To Use

  • Use this skill when the request is about: android security review, secret handling android app, exported component security android.
  • Primary outcome: Apply Android app security guidance around secrets, storage, network trust, exported components, and least privilege.
  • Read references/patterns.md when you need the attack-surface checklist or the storage/network/component decision matrix.
  • Read references/scenarios.md for manifest, backup, WebView, and release-hardening review paths.
  • Handoff skills when the scope expands:
  • android-modernization-upgrade
  • android-ci-cd-release-playstore

Workflow

  1. Inventory the attack surface first: exported components, intent/deep link entry points, file sharing, WebView usage, local storage, logs, backups, and network trust config.
  2. Remove avoidable risk before hardening details: prefer platform pickers and choosers, internal storage, server-issued short-lived tokens, and least-privilege permissions instead of shipping broad access or long-lived secrets.
  3. Lock the remaining boundaries explicitly with android:exported, component permissions, FileProvider, networkSecurityConfig, debug-only trust anchors, and immutable PendingIntents.
  4. Review sensitive surfaces that often regress in Android apps: WebView JavaScript bridges, backup/data extraction rules, cleartext exceptions, log redaction, and same-developer IPC assumptions.
  5. Validate the release posture with reproducible checks, then document residual risks and whether backend enforcement or Play Integrity is advisory or blocking.

Guardrails

  • Treat client-side secrets as recoverable by attackers; move trust decisions and privileged API access server-side whenever possible.
  • Export components only when there is a real external caller, and permission-protect or signature-protect them when the contract is private.
  • Use network security config to scope debug trust anchors or cleartext exceptions instead of broad manifest toggles.
  • Redact logs, review backups, and keep sensitive data out of shared external storage by default.

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 7d ago First seen · 78 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 954c494401e6

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android-security-best-practices is a skill published in the GitHub repository krutikJain/android-agent-skills (14 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 1,172 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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