android-adb-terminal

android-adb-terminal is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from prasad-vennam/Awesome-Android-AI-Agent-Skills. It costs 23 tokens per session (644 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for controlling Android phones and emulators from a computer using Android Debug Bridge, a command-line connection tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install apps, inspect logs, launch or stop app components, enter text, tap or swipe, clear app data, capture screens, transfer files, and forward ports.
Why use it?
It puts common device actions and debugging commands in one place instead of requiring you to remember individual ADB commands.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to install apps, inspect logs, launch or stop app components, enter text, tap or swipe, clear app data, capture screens, transfer files, and forward ports.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/prasad-vennam/awesome-android-ai-agent-skills/android-adb-terminal
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add prasad-vennam/Awesome-Android-AI-Agent-Skills --skill android-adb-terminal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/prasad-vennam/Awesome-Android-AI-Agent-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 644 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 $0.00023 $0.00644
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00322
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00064

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9d600b5cd95e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

android-adb-terminal 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 12d 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.

skills/android-adb-terminal/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Android ADB Automation 📲⌨️

Expert commands and scripts for seamless Android device interaction and debugging.

⚡ When to Use

  • App Installation: Installing APKs or bundles.
  • Logcat Debugging: Filtering and searching system logs.
  • Device Interaction: Typing text, tapping buttons, or swiping via shell.
  • Data Cleanup: Clearing application data or cache.
  • Screen Captures: Taking screenshots or recording videos.
  • Port Forwarding: Connecting local servers to the device.

🛠️ Essential Commands

1. Device Discovery

adb devices
adb get-serialno

2. Package & Activity Management

  • Force Stop: adb shell am force-stop <package_name>
  • Launch Activity: adb shell am start -n <package_name>/<activity_name>
  • Clear Data: adb shell pm clear <package_name>
  • List Installed Packages: adb shell pm list packages | grep <filter>

3. Screen Interaction (Agent Favorites)

  • Type Text: adb shell input text "HelloAgent"
  • Tap Coordinate: adb shell input tap 500 500
  • Back Button: adb shell input keyevent 4
  • Unlock Device: adb shell input keyevent 82

4. File Transfers

adb push local_file /sdcard/remote_path
adb pull /sdcard/remote_path local_destination

📜 Advanced Automation

Port Forwarding (Connect Host to Device)

adb forward tcp:8080 tcp:8080

Port Reverse (Connect Device to Host - e.g. Local Backend)

adb reverse tcp:3000 tcp:3000

Advanced Logcat Filtering

adb logcat -v time *:E # All errors with timestamps
adb logcat MyTag:D *:S # Show 'MyTag' debug only, silent for everything else

🧪 Scripting Patterns

Wait for Device Online

adb wait-for-device

Get Screen Dimensions

adb shell wm size

Take and Pull Screenshot

adb shell screencap -p /sdcard/screen.png
adb pull /sdcard/screen.png ./screenshot.png

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 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. 12d ago First seen · 106 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 9d600b5cd95e

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android-adb-terminal is a skill published in the GitHub repository prasad-vennam/Awesome-Android-AI-Agent-Skills (9 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 644 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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