capturing-preview-screenshots-in-ci

capturing-preview-screenshots-in-ci is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from skydoves/android-testing-skills. It costs 250 tokens per session (4,402 once invoked), scanned D, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to rendering Jetpack Compose `@Preview` functions as screenshots on an Android device or emulator, then publishing them in a browsable HTML catalogue. `@Preview` is an IDE view of a composable UI state.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to capture all previews from a build, create a searchable preview catalogue, publish it through GitHub Pages, or adjust captures that include delayed images or animations.
Why use it?
It turns personal IDE previews into shared, device-rendered visual references that can be reviewed in continuous integration. This helps catch differences caused by real fonts, image loading, system bars, or device rendering.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to capture all previews from a build, create a searchable preview catalogue, publish it through GitHub Pages, or adjust captures that include delayed images or animations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/skydoves/android-testing-skills/capturing-preview-screenshots-in-ci
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 skydoves/android-testing-skills --skill capturing-preview-screenshots-in-ci
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/skydoves/android-testing-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 250 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,402 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 2 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 $0.00250 $0.04402
Opus 5 $0.00125 $0.02201
Sonnet 5 $0.00050 $0.00880
Haiku 4.5 $0.00025 $0.00440

Measured 10d ago against content hash 81fc76b7f43d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

capturing-preview-screenshots-in-ci scanned grade D 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 10d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

echo 'KERNEL=="kvm", GROUP="kvm", MODE="0666", OPTIONS+="static_node=kvm"' | sudo tee /etc/udev/rules.d/99-kvm4all.rules

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

- run: rm -rf .hotswan/preview-captures # so a deleted preview leaves the catalog
compose/preview/capturing-preview-screenshots-in-ci/SKILL.md · 273 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 273 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Capturing Preview Screenshots In CI — A Device-Rendered Catalog On Every Commit

A @Preview lives in one engineer's IDE, behind a recompile, on a renderer (layoutlib) that is not the device. This skill turns it into a shared artifact: render every @Preview on a real device/emulator (real ART, real fonts, real image loading, system bars), collect the PNGs into a searchable HTML catalog, regenerate it from CI on every commit, and serve it from GitHub Pages. The tool is Compose HotSwan's Gradle plugin. For structuring previews so this is worth doing, see ../developing-with-compose-previews/SKILL.md.

When to use this skill

  • The user wants ./gradlew captureAllPreviews — render all @Previews and produce an HTML catalog.
  • The user wants to screenshot one preview from a shell script over ADB without the IDE.
  • The user wants a preview catalog deployed to GitHub Pages so designers/QA/PMs can browse components at a URL.
  • A preview that loads a network image or settles an animation is captured half-painted — needs render-delay tuning.
  • The user asks "Paparazzi vs Roborazzi vs device screenshots — which, and can I run both?".

When NOT to use this skill

  • The user wants pixel-diff golden-image regression gates (store a reference PNG, fail on diff). captureAllPreviews does not diff; that is Paparazzi's/Roborazzi's job. Run both if you need both — see the comparison table below.
  • The user wants behavioral assertions on a Compose UI (ComposeTestRule, finders) — use ../../setup/choosing-test-rule-vs-runtest/SKILL.md and the compose/finders/ skills.
  • The user is fixing why a preview won't render or keeps going "out of date" — that is preview structure; use ../developing-with-compose-previews/SKILL.md.
  • The user wants Compose live hot reload (edit code, see it on a running device) — that is the HotSwan IDE plugin's reload feature, a different surface from screenshot capture.

Prerequisites

  • A connected device or running emulator with the app installed and launched at least once in the current run — captureAllPreviews drives the running app's process so previews render with the real dependency graph (Hilt/Koin, network, DB) and need no mocks.
  • The HotSwan Gradle compiler plugin and the preview library (versions from the project's catalog; 1.3.2 at time of writing):

Read the full file on GitHub · 273 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. 10d ago First seen · 273 lines · 250 tokens per session scan D 81fc76b7f43d

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capturing-preview-screenshots-in-ci is a skill published in the GitHub repository skydoves/android-testing-skills (319 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 250 tokens to every session and 4,402 once invoked, about $0.0013 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 2 findings (asks for root, recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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