mobile-testing

mobile-testing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from petrkindlmann/qa-skills. It costs 198 tokens per session (3,335 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A guide to testing iOS and Android apps, including native apps and apps built with React Native, Flutter, or hybrid tools. It covers testing on emulators, simulators, real devices, and cloud device farms.

In plain words
What is it for?
Testing gestures, deep links, cold starts, push notifications, Face ID, offline use, poor connections, and permission prompts with Appium, Detox, Maestro, or Patrol.
Why use it?
Mobile apps can behave differently across devices, operating systems, permissions, networks, and app states. This helps catch failures that ordinary desktop browser tests miss.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Testing gestures, deep links, cold starts, push notifications, Face ID, offline use, poor connections, and permission prompts with Appium, Detox, Maestro, or Patrol.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/petrkindlmann/qa-skills/mobile-testing
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 petrkindlmann/qa-skills --skill mobile-testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/petrkindlmann/qa-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 mobile-testing

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/petrkindlmann/qa-skills/mobile-testing.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/petrkindlmann/qa-skills/mobile-testing)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/petrkindlmann/qa-skills/mobile-testing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/petrkindlmann/qa-skills/mobile-testing.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 198 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,335 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 16 May 2026
  • Snyk pass 16 May 2026
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 $0.00198 $0.03335
Opus 5 $0.00099 $0.01667
Sonnet 5 $0.00040 $0.00667
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00333

Measured 8d ago against content hash facda36464fb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

mobile-testing scanned grade C with 2 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.

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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -Ls "https://get.maestro.mobile.dev" | bash

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

# Or the cross-platform curl one-liner:
skills/mobile-testing/SKILL.md · 219 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 219 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


Quick Route

Situation Go to
Picking a framework for an app type Framework Decision
Native/hybrid Appium setup + selectors + gestures Appium 3.xreferences/appium-patterns.md
React Native suite Detoxreferences/detox-and-maestro.md
Low-friction cross-platform YAML Maestroreferences/detox-and-maestro.md
Cloud device matrix (P0/P1/P2) Device Farmreferences/device-farm.md
Deep links, push, biometrics, offline, permissions Mobile-Specific Patternsreferences/mobile-patterns.md

Discovery Questions

Check .agents/qa-project-context.md in the project root first — if it exists, use it and skip any question it already answers.

  1. App type: Native iOS/Android, React Native, Flutter, or hybrid (Cordova/Capacitor)? This picks the framework (see Framework Decision).
  2. Real devices or emulators? Real devices for release validation and performance; emulators/simulators for development speed. Most teams need both.
  3. Device farm: BrowserStack App Automate, Sauce Labs, AWS Device Farm, or self-hosted? Budget and CI integration decide.
  4. OS coverage: Minimum iOS and Android versions? Read analytics for actual user distribution before building the matrix — do not target the newest hardware by default.
  5. Existing CI pipeline: Where do mobile tests run — local machines, CI runners with emulators, or cloud device farms?
  6. App distribution: How are test builds distributed — TestFlight, Firebase App Distribution, direct APK/IPA? This determines how the farm gets the binary.

Read the full file on GitHub · 219 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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 · 219 lines · 198 tokens per session scan C facda36464fb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mobile-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository petrkindlmann/qa-skills (113 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 198 tokens to every session and 3,335 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.