appium-pilot

appium-pilot is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from theperu/appium-pilot. It costs 81 tokens per session (3,102 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A terminal tool for driving a native mobile app running in an iOS Simulator or Android Emulator. It can inspect the screen and interact with visible elements by tapping, typing, swiping, and scrolling.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to open an app session, inspect its current screen, fill in forms, navigate screens, tap controls, swipe, scroll, and take snapshots.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to inspect and operate mobile apps during testing or debugging instead of relying on manual device interaction.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/theperu/appium-pilot/skilldata
Any agent
npx skills add theperu/appium-pilot --skill skilldata
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/theperu/appium-pilot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,102 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00081 $0.03102
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.01551
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00620
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00310

Measured 3d ago against content hash 1ebdf50ce2b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

appium-pilot 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 3d 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.

src/appium_pilot/skilldata/SKILL.md · 267 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 267 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

appium-pilot

A stateful, session-based CLI for driving a native mobile app. One verb per invocation; session state persists between calls (the Appium server holds the live session). Output is tuned for you to read.

The core loop

  1. appium-pilot open ... once to start a session.
  2. appium-pilot snapshot to see the screen as filtered XML with ref="eN" ids.
  3. Act on a ref: appium-pilot tap e7, appium-pilot type e3 "hello", etc.
  4. Re-snapshot after anything that changes the screen — refs are only valid until the next snapshot. Acting on a stale ref fails with exit code 2 and the message "run snapshot again".

Starting a session

# Installed Android app (auto-picks a booted emulator, else boots one)
appium-pilot open --platform android --app-package com.example.app

# iOS Simulator app bundle, or an installed app by bundle id
appium-pilot open --platform ios --app /path/to/MyApp.app
appium-pilot open --platform ios --bundle-id com.apple.Preferences

# Target a specific device; add capabilities
appium-pilot open --platform ios --bundle-id com.x --device "iPhone 16"
appium-pilot open --platform android --app-package com.x --cap appium:noReset=true

Platform is inferred from --bundle-id (ios), --app-package (android), or the app file extension; otherwise pass --platform.

--cap values are coerced (true/false → bool, digits → int). To force a string, quote the value: --cap 'platformVersion="17"' keeps it as "17".

Inspecting

appium-pilot snapshot          # filtered XML + refs (use this, not --raw, by default)
appium-pilot snapshot --raw    # full unfiltered page source (when filtered hides something)
appium-pilot snapshot --bounds # add each element's center as at="x,y" (feed tap --at / a screenshot)
appium-pilot source            # raw page source, no refs
appium-pilot screenshot        # save PNG, prints path — then Read the file to view it
appium-pilot screenshot e7     # screenshot just one element

appium-pilot find "Login"      # just the refs of elements whose visible text matches
appium-pilot find "OK" --case-sensitive   # exact case (default is case-insensitive)

appium-pilot get e3            # a ref's current state, e.g. text="hi" enabled=true
appium-pilot get e3 bounds     # read one raw attribute (bounds, focused, ...)

Read the full file on GitHub · 267 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. 3d ago First seen · 267 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 1ebdf50ce2b4

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appium-pilot is a skill published in the GitHub repository theperu/appium-pilot (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 3,102 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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