Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to nikzlabs/shipit. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nikzlabs/shipit/main/.agents/skills/android-build/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nikzlabs/shipitWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nikzlabs/shipit/android-build)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nikzlabs/shipit/android-build"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nikzlabs/shipit/android-build/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
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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 | $0.00101 | $0.01176 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00040 | $0.00470 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00020 | $0.00235 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00118 |
Grade A, and why
android-build 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 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.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Android build, test & preview
The Android toolchain is baked into every session container — JDK 17, the
Android SDK, and Gradle 8.7 are always on PATH. A repo declares nothing to
build (no shipit.yaml Android fields). Full command reference and env paths:
/shipit-docs/android.md — read it for anything not covered here.
There are two surfaces: headless (build/lint/test/snapshot — this container,
no device) and a running app (an emulator Compose service over adb).
Find the Gradle root first
Run Gradle from the dir with settings.gradle(.kts) + gradlew. In a monorepo
(web app + an android/ module) just cd into it. If there are several Android
app modules, flavors, or Gradle roots, list them and pick — or ask the user which
to target. Don't guess off stray .gradle files.
cd android
./gradlew projects # modules
./gradlew tasks --all # available tasks (snapshot task names vary by library/variant)
The core loop: build → lint → snapshot
./gradlew assembleDebug # did I break the build?
./gradlew lint # manifest/resource/accessibility + edge-to-edge/inset checks
./gradlew test # JVM unit tests (+ Robolectric if used)
Prefer the committed ./gradlew (pins the Gradle version). It downloads its dist
once per fresh container; run the baked gradle to skip that if needed.
Reading the output is most of debugging — compile errors, lint findings, and test stack traces are in the command output. Fix the root cause from them.
"Did my UI/inset/padding change render right?" → a snapshot test
This is the key habit: visual verification is a snapshot test, not a
screenshot of a running app. Snapshot tests (Paparazzi via layoutlib,
Roborazzi via Robolectric) render a screen to a PNG on the JVM with no
device, and the test sets up the data it renders — then diffs against a
committed golden.
./gradlew verifyPaparazziDebug # check renders against goldens (or verifyRoborazziDebug)
./gradlew recordPaparazziDebug # regenerate goldens after an intended visual change
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 · 101 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A 583873dd9bb4
android-build is a skill published in the GitHub repository nikzlabs/shipit (9 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 1,176 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.
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