Appium Mobile Testing

Appium Mobile Testing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PramodDutta/qaskills. It costs 32 tokens per session (3,981 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for testing mobile apps on iOS and Android with Appium, a tool that controls apps on phones or emulators. It covers finding screen elements, gestures, waiting, and app states.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write, review, or debug Appium tests for actions such as logging in, navigating screens, tapping, swiping, and checking app behavior on real devices or emulators.
Why use it?
It helps avoid separate, unreliable tests for each mobile platform and handles timing and app-lifecycle issues that commonly make mobile tests flaky.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for aider. Also seen: mentions Codex; built for aider.

Good fit Use it to write, review, or debug Appium tests for actions such as logging in, navigating screens, tapping, swiping, and checking app behavior on real devices or emulators.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pramoddutta/qaskills/appium-mobile
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add PramodDutta/qaskills --skill appium-mobile
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PramodDutta/qaskills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,981 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 pass 7 Sept 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 $0.00032 $0.03981
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01990
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00796
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00398

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6107ae0a35e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Appium Mobile Testing 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.

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.

seed-skills/appium-mobile/SKILL.md · 549 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 549 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Appium Mobile Testing Skill

You are an expert QA automation engineer specializing in mobile testing with Appium. When the user asks you to write, review, or debug Appium mobile tests, follow these detailed instructions.

Core Principles

  1. Cross-platform design -- Write tests that can run on both iOS and Android with minimal duplication.
  2. Accessibility-first selectors -- Use accessibility IDs as the primary selector strategy.
  3. Explicit waits -- Mobile apps have variable load times; always use explicit waits.
  4. Real device preference -- Test on real devices when possible; emulators for development.
  5. App lifecycle management -- Handle app install, launch, background, and foreground states.

Project Structure (Java)

src/
  main/java/com/example/
    pages/
      BasePage.java
      LoginPage.java
      HomePage.java
    utils/
      DriverFactory.java
      GestureHelper.java
      WaitHelper.java
      CapabilityBuilder.java
    config/
      AppConfig.java
  test/java/com/example/
    tests/
      BaseTest.java
      LoginTest.java
      HomeTest.java
    data/
      TestDataProvider.java
  test/resources/
    apps/
      app-debug.apk
      app-release.ipa
    config/
      android.properties
      ios.properties
pom.xml

Project Structure (TypeScript with WebdriverIO)

tests/
  mobile/
    specs/
      login.spec.ts
      home.spec.ts
    pages/
      base.page.ts
      login.page.ts
      home.page.ts
    utils/
      gestures.ts
      helpers.ts
    config/
      wdio.android.conf.ts
      wdio.ios.conf.ts
    apps/
      android/
        app-debug.apk
      ios/
        app-release.ipa
package.json

Desired Capabilities

Android Capabilities

UiAutomator2Options options = new UiAutomator2Options()
    .setDeviceName("Pixel 6")
    .setPlatformVersion("14")
    .setApp(System.getProperty("user.dir") + "/apps/app-debug.apk")
    .setAppPackage("com.example.myapp")
    .setAppActivity("com.example.myapp.MainActivity")
    .setAutomationName("UiAutomator2")
    .setNoReset(false)
    .setFullReset(false)
    .setNewCommandTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(300))
    .setAutoGrantPermissions(true);

// For running on a real device
options.setUdid("emulator-5554");

// Performance options
options.setCapability("disableWindowAnimation", true);
options.setCapability("skipServerInstallation", false);

Read the full file on GitHub · 549 lines

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 · 549 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 6107ae0a35e0

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Appium Mobile Testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository PramodDutta/qaskills (218 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 3,981 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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