android-ui-automation

android-ui-automation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OpenMinis/MinisSkills. It costs 171 tokens per session (1,634 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A way to control Android apps through their visible screens and accessibility controls when they have no public API or web version.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps launch apps or deep links, find controls by approximate text, tap and verify actions, swipe, wait, and extract screen information through an Android device.
Why use it?
It makes phone-only apps usable for automation without relying on an unavailable web interface or programming interface.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps launch apps or deep links, find controls by approximate text, tap and verify actions, swipe, wait, and extract screen information through an Android device.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/openminis/minisskills/android-ui-automation
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 OpenMinis/MinisSkills --skill android-ui-automation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenMinis/MinisSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/openminis/minisskills/android-ui-automation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/openminis/minisskills/android-ui-automation.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 171 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,634 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 59
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00171 $0.01634
Opus 5 $0.00086 $0.00817
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00327
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00163

Measured 8d ago against content hash 8db4aa65ab9f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

android-ui-automation 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 4 executable files (scripts/find_node.py, scripts/open_deep_link.py, scripts/tap_and_verify.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.

android-ui-automation/SKILL.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Android UI Automation

Drive Android apps through their UI layer when they have no public API or web version. This is the fallback that makes "phone-only" apps automatable.

Environment & dependencies (read first)

This skill drives the user's Android phone. It relies on two CLI tools that ship with the Minis app for Android (installed at /usr/local/bin/ inside the Minis runtime):

CLI Role
android-a11y-cli Accessibility-Service bridge: ui dump, tap node, gesture swipe, wait, extract, ...
android-open Launch any URL/scheme via the system handler (spotify://..., weixin://..., tel:, ...)

Prerequisites on the device:

  1. Minis app installed (Android). These CLIs do not exist on other hosts (macOS/Windows/other Linux) — verify with which android-a11y-cli first, and if missing, tell the user this skill only runs inside Minis on Android.
  2. Minis Accessibility Service enabled: Settings → Accessibility → Minis. Check with android-a11y-cli service ping; if it reports not running, ask the user to re-enable it before anything else.
  3. The target app installed on the same device.

These are device-side capabilities, not network APIs — no API keys, no OAuth, no server. If a step returns permission_denied from the a11y service, it means the service was revoked; recover via Settings → Accessibility.

When to use

  • The target app has no API / no web page (WeChat Moments, many CN apps).
  • Offload fine-grained clicking to reliable scripts instead of brittle commands.
  • The user asks to play/search/open/tap/swipe inside an installed Android app.

Do not use this for apps that already have a proper skill (e.g. bilibili-hub, spotify-hub) — prefer the API path when one exists.

Core workflow

Follow this order. Each step has a reason; don't skip verification.

  1. Resolve the target Confirm the app is installed. If unsure, ask the user or try the deep link and check the foreground package (see step 2).

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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 · 146 lines · 171 tokens per session scan A 8db4aa65ab9f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

android-ui-automation is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenMinis/MinisSkills (400 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 171 tokens to every session and 1,634 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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