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.
npx skills add skydoves/android-testing-skills --skill connecting-to-devicesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/skydoves/android-testing-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/skydoves/android-testing-skills/connecting-to-devices)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/skydoves/android-testing-skills/connecting-to-devices"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/skydoves/android-testing-skills/connecting-to-devices/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/skydoves/android-testing-skills/connecting-to-devices"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/skydoves/android-testing-skills/connecting-to-devices.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00235 | $0.04192 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00118 | $0.02096 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00047 | $0.00838 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00023 | $0.00419 |
Grade B, and why
connecting-to-devices scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 9d 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.
sudo udevadm control --reload-rules How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 283 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Connecting to Devices — Listing, Selecting, and Waiting on Transports
adb devices is the most-typed adb command. The follow-on traps are real: scripts run before the device is actually online, multi-device shells fail with more than one device/emulator, Linux misses udev rules, and tutorials reference a fictional wait-for-device-online form. This skill encodes the truth set.
When to use this skill
- The user runs
adb shellwith two devices plugged in and getserror: more than one device/emulator. - The user reports a device showing as
unauthorized,offline, orno permissionsinadb devices. - The user wants a CI script to wait until a device finishes booting before running tests.
- The user copy-pasted
adb wait-for-device-onlinefrom a blog post and it errors with usage text. - The user is on Linux and a freshly plugged phone never appears in
adb devices.
When NOT to use this skill
- The user wants the high-level architecture / server lifecycle / env vars — use
../../architecture/understanding-adb-architecture/SKILL.md. - The user wants Wi-Fi / wireless debugging — use
../connecting-over-wifi/SKILL.md. - The user wants to install or clear app state on the connected device — use
../../apps/installing-and-managing-apps/SKILL.md.
Prerequisites
- Working ADB server (see
../../architecture/understanding-adb-architecture/SKILL.md). - Device with USB debugging enabled in
Settings → System → Developer options. On Android 4.2+ developer options is hidden until "Build number" is tapped seven times inAbout phone. - On Linux: ability to write
/etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.ruleswith sudo. - On Windows: a vendor USB driver (Google USB Driver via SDK Manager for Pixel/Nexus; OEM driver for other manufacturers).
Workflow
- 1. Run
adb devicesfirst, every time. It prints one line per attached transport in the form<serial> <state> [details...]. Add-lwhenever scripting:adb devices -l # List of devices attached # emulator-5556 device product:sdk_google_phone_x86_64 model:Android_SDK_built_for_x86_64 device:generic_x86_64 transport_id:1 # 0a388e93 device usb:1-1 product:razor model:Nexus_7 device:flo transport_id:2-laddsproduct,model,device,transport_id, and (for USB) the USB bus path.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 283 lines · 235 tokens per session scan B 5825d747900c
connecting-to-devices is a skill published in the GitHub repository skydoves/android-testing-skills (319 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 235 tokens to every session and 4,192 once invoked, about $0.0012 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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