printing-the-semantics-tree

printing-the-semantics-tree is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from skydoves/android-testing-skills. It costs 61 tokens per session (3,143 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A debugging guide for reading Jetpack Compose’s semantics tree—the framework’s structured description of UI elements used by tests and accessibility tools. It shows how to print that tree when a test cannot find the expected node.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate “no node matched” and “found multiple nodes” errors, understand merged versus unmerged trees, and inspect SemanticsNode data for custom matchers.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish a wrong tag or tree level from a UI that has not been created yet, so you do not mask the real problem with delays.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to investigate “no node matched” and “found multiple nodes” errors, understand merged versus unmerged trees, and inspect SemanticsNode data for custom matchers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/skydoves/android-testing-skills/printing-the-semantics-tree
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add skydoves/android-testing-skills --skill printing-the-semantics-tree
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 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,143 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 $0.00061 $0.03143
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01571
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00629
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00314

Measured 7d ago against content hash afab166b3a16, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

printing-the-semantics-tree 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 7d 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.

compose/debug/printing-the-semantics-tree/SKILL.md · 223 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 223 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Printing the Semantics Tree — When a Finder Fails, Dump the Tree

onNodeWithTag failures are structural — the tag is wrong, the matcher is on the merged tree but the tag is on a leaf, or the node is genuinely not composed yet. None of those are timing problems, so Thread.sleep does nothing. This skill teaches the agent to diagnose finder failures by dumping the semantics tree with printToLog / printToString and reading the framework's built-in "found in the unmerged tree" hint.

When to use this skill

  • The test fails with "Failed: assertExists. Reason: Expected exactly '1' node but could not find any node that satisfies: …".
  • The test fails with "Reason: Expected exactly '1' node but found 'N' nodes that satisfy: …".
  • The error message ends with "…were found in the unmerged tree. If you really wanted to match against merged tree, use useUnmergedTree = true." and the developer is confused.
  • The developer is writing a custom matcher and needs direct access to a SemanticsNode.
  • A test was fixed by adding Thread.sleep — the underlying problem is a wrong tag, not a timing issue. Replace with this skill's pattern. See skydoves directive #7.

When NOT to use this skill

  • The symptom is timing (animation has not finished, an idling resource is busy). Use ../../synchronization/synchronizing-with-idle/SKILL.md or ../../synchronization/testing-animations-deterministically/SKILL.md.
  • The finder is wrong because the test searches by text instead of by tag. Fix with ../../finders/finding-nodes-by-tag-text-content/SKILL.md (skydoves directive #1).
  • The diagnosis involves accessibility violations rather than node lookup. Use ../enabling-accessibility-checks/SKILL.md.

Prerequisites

  • androidx.compose.ui:ui-test on androidTestImplementation or testImplementation (the API lives in commonMain so it is available in both source sets).
  • An active ComposeTestRule or ComposeUiTest (no extra setup beyond the standard skeleton).

Workflow

Read the full file on GitHub · 223 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. 7d ago First seen · 223 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A afab166b3a16

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printing-the-semantics-tree is a skill published in the GitHub repository skydoves/android-testing-skills (318 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 3,143 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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