managing-app-permissions

managing-app-permissions is a skill for Claude Code from ofcskn/mobile-automation-plugin. It costs 72 tokens per session (390 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checker for iOS and Android app permissions. It verifies iOS explanation texts, flags risky or outdated Android permissions, and compares declared permissions with the APIs used in the code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review app.json or app.config.ts, check iOS NSUsageDescription entries, identify Android permission issues, and confirm that requested access matches the app's code.
Why use it?
It helps find permission problems that can lead to app-store rejection or confusing permission requests before submission.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the automobileapp plugin — 11 skills, 17 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to review app.json or app.config.ts, check iOS NSUsageDescription entries, identify Android permission issues, and confirm that requested access matches the app's code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ofcskn/mobile-automation-plugin/managing-app-permissions
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 ofcskn/mobile-automation-plugin --skill managing-app-permissions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ofcskn/mobile-automation-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install automobileapp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 17 commands.

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 managing-app-permissions

README.md
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Your own site
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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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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ofcskn/mobile-automation-plugin/managing-app-permissions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ofcskn/mobile-automation-plugin/managing-app-permissions.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 390 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 $0.00072 $0.00390
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00195
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00039

Measured 8d ago against content hash 4554bc72a147, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

managing-app-permissions 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate-permissions.js), 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/managing-app-permissions/SKILL.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

Managing App Permissions

Why permissions cause rejections

Apple rejects apps that:

  • Declare a permission (e.g. NSCameraUsageDescription) with an empty or generic string
  • Request permissions not used in the app binary
  • Use APIs that require permissions without declaring them
  • Use NSTrackingUsageDescription without ATT framework implementation

Google rejects apps that:

  • Request sensitive permissions not justified by core functionality
  • Use deprecated permissions (READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE without media alternatives)
  • Declare ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION without foreground location approval

iOS permission rules

All NS*UsageDescription strings must:

  1. Be non-empty
  2. Explain WHY the app needs the permission (not just WHAT it does)
  3. Be in the user's language (localize for non-English markets)

❌ Bad: "Camera access" ✅ Good: "Used to scan QR codes for adding contacts"

Android permission rules

Permissions are declared in app.json under expo.android.permissions[]. Only declare permissions your app actually uses. Dangerous permissions (CAMERA, LOCATION, CONTACTS, etc.) trigger runtime dialogs.

Process

  1. Read app's app.json or app.config.ts
  2. Extract iOS infoPlist NS*UsageDescription entries
  3. Extract Android permissions array
  4. Validate each iOS entry has a meaningful description (not empty, not generic)
  5. Flag dangerous Android permissions and confirm they're intentional
  6. Optionally scan source code to detect permission API usage
Files

What ships with it

3 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. 8d ago First seen · 49 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 4554bc72a147

Subscribe to this mod's changes

managing-app-permissions is a skill published in the GitHub repository ofcskn/mobile-automation-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 390 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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