android-debugging

android-debugging is a skill for Claude Code from rcosteira79/android-skills. It costs 55 tokens per session (2,461 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A root-cause-first guide for investigating Android and Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) problems. It covers evidence from crash logs, device tools, build errors, memory issues, and Jetpack Compose behaviour.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate crashes, ANRs (app freezes), Logcat output, ADB issues, R8 stack traces, memory leaks, Gradle failures, and Compose recomposition bugs.
Why use it?
It prevents repeated guesses and symptom-only patches by requiring reproduction and observed evidence before fixing a problem.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the android-skills plugin — 21 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate crashes, ANRs (app freezes), Logcat output, ADB issues, R8 stack traces, memory leaks, Gradle failures, and Compose recomposition bugs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rcosteira79/android-skills/android-debugging
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 rcosteira79/android-skills --skill android-debugging
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rcosteira79/android-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install android-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,461 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 191
    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 $0.00055 $0.02461
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00984
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00492
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00246

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 9f04753508a9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

android-debugging 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 1mo 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.

plugins/android-skills/skills/android-debugging/SKILL.md · 196 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 196 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Android Debugging

Overview

Android-specific evidence-gathering and investigation techniques on a root-cause-first foundation.

Root-cause-first foundation:

  • No fix before the root cause is found. Investigate first — reproduce, gather evidence (observed values, not assumed), trace the cause. Patching a symptom you don't understand creates two bugs.
  • Three failed guesses ⇒ stop and question the architecture rather than guessing again.

The Android-specific tools below serve that investigation. Optional: if you run a dedicated debugging-discipline skill (e.g. superpowers:systematic-debugging or ace:systematic-debugging), this layers on top of it — but it requires none.

Evidence-Gathering by Problem Type

Crashes & Exceptions

# Stream crash logs filtered by app package
adb logcat --pid=$(adb shell pidof -s com.example.app)

# Save full logcat to file for analysis
adb logcat -d > crash_log.txt

# Filter by tag
adb logcat -s "YourTag:E"

Key logcat log levels: V (verbose) D (debug) I (info) W (warn) E (error) F (fatal)

Read the full stack trace — the root cause is usually at the bottom of the Caused by: chain, not the top-level exception.

ANR (Application Not Responding)

ANRs mean the main thread was blocked. Evidence:

# Pull ANR trace from device
adb pull /data/anr/traces.txt ./anr_traces.txt

# Or stream while reproducing
adb logcat -s "ActivityManager:E" | grep -A 30 "ANR in"

Look for: main thread in state MONITOR (waiting for a lock) or blocking I/O on main. Trace backward to find what holds the lock.

Common causes: Database/network call on main thread, runBlocking on main thread, deadlock between coroutine scopes.

Memory Leaks

Add LeakCanary to debugImplementation. It surfaces leak traces automatically in a notification.

Read the leak trace top-to-bottom: the first bold line is the leaking object, the path shows what's holding the reference. Fix by clearing the reference in the appropriate lifecycle callback.

Read the full file on GitHub · 196 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. 1mo ago First seen · 196 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 9f04753508a9

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android-debugging is a skill published in the GitHub repository rcosteira79/android-skills (159 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 2,461 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.