What is argent-android-emulator-setup?

A setup workflow for connecting an Android emulator, which is a virtual Android device, or a physical Android device to Argent tools. It checks available devices and can boot an emulator when needed.

Use it at the start of Android UI testing or development sessions to find a ready device, boot an Android emulator, obtain its device identifier, and configure local app access.

It removes the setup guesswork before interacting with an Android app. It also helps the device reach a local React Native development server when Metro is running.

argent-android-emulator-setup — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by software-mansion: A setup workflow for connecting an Android emulator, wh

About the project

Argent is a toolkit that lets an AI assistant control and inspect iOS, Android, TV, Electron, and Chromium applications through simulators, emulators, physical devices, or desktop connections. It is for developers who want an agent to interact with interfaces, reproduce issues, test features, debug applications, or run profiling tasks. The catalogue add-ons expose Argent's device-control and development workflows to coding agents.

software-mansion/argent · 2,372 stars · on GitHub

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.

agentmods

npx agentmods add skills/software-mansion/argent/argent-android-emulator-setup

Any agent

npx skills add software-mansion/argent --skill argent-android-emulator-setup

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/software-mansion/argent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 821 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00047	$0.00821
Opus 5	$0.00023	$0.00411
Sonnet 5	$0.00009	$0.00164
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00082

Measured 5d ago against content hash b425db8c3d73, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

argent-android-emulator-setup 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 5d 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.

packages/skills/skills/argent-android-emulator-setup/SKILL.md · 31 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 31 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

1. Prerequisites

Android SDK Platform Tools on PATH — provides adb.
Android Emulator on PATH — needed to boot AVDs. If you will only use an already-running emulator or a physical device, adb alone is sufficient.
An AVD created via Android Studio or avdmanager create avd.

Verify with adb version and emulator -list-avds.

2. Setup

Find a ready device — call list-devices. Filter for entries with platform: "android". Ready devices (state: "device") come first. Pick the first serial (e.g. emulator-5554) unless the user specified one.
Boot if needed — if nothing Android is ready, call boot-device with avdName: <name> from the same call's avds list. The tool transparently picks hot vs cold boot: it probes the AVD's default_boot snapshot, restores it under a tight deadline when usable, and falls back to a full cold boot otherwise. Hot path is typically ~30s; cold path takes 2–10 min. On any stage failure the tool kills the emulator process it started so your next call starts from a clean state.
Metro (for React Native) — once a device is up, run adb -s <serial> reverse tcp:8081 tcp:8081 so the device can reach Metro on your host. Repeat if the device restarts. See the argent-metro-debugger skill.

3. Using the device

Pass the Android serial as udid to the unified interaction tools — gesture-tap, gesture-swipe, describe, screenshot, launch-app, keyboard, etc. Dispatch is automatic based on the id shape. See argent-device-interact for platform-neutral interaction tooling and the Android-specific gotchas section at the bottom of that skill.

4. Notes

Android TV / leanback AVDs boot through this exact flow (same boot-device + avdName), but they are focus-driven, not touch-driven — do not use gesture-tap/gesture-swipe on them. list-devices tags a leanback device with runtimeKind: "tv" (detected via the system feature list, not the serial — a TV AVD's serial looks just like a phone's). When you see runtimeKind: "tv", drive it with the focus-driven tools (describe / tv-remote / keyboard) and the argent-tv-interact skill (it covers Android TV as well as Apple TV, including the full TV setup flow).
Serials are the adb device id. iOS UDIDs and Android serials are not interchangeable, but you do NOT need to tell the tools which platform — dispatch is automatic.
describe on Android returns a shallower tree than iOS (no accessibility-service equivalent), but covers most tap-target discovery.
reinstall-app on Android always installs with -g so first-launch runtime permissions are pre-granted.
To stop the emulator, run adb -s <serial> emu kill from a shell (clean shutdown). Never pkill -9/kill -9 qemu — a hard kill leaves the userdata image dirty, after which cold boots can hang for many minutes doing recovery (runaway writes, boot_completed never flips). If an image gets into that state, boot once with -wipe-data to reset it.

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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.

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argent-android-emulator-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository software-mansion/argent (2,372 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 821 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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