adb-cli

adb-cli is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from TiagoDanin/Android-Debug-Bridge-MCP. It costs 96 tokens per session (2,105 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line tool for driving a connected Android phone or emulator, including reading its screen, tapping controls, typing, installing apps, and reading logs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect accessibility elements, interact by label, run gestures and deep links, manage permissions, capture screenshots or recordings, and investigate logcat output.
Why use it?
It makes repeatable Android actions possible from a terminal, script, or CI job instead of relying on manual device use.

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/tiagodanin/android-debug-bridge-mcp/adb-cli
Any agent
npx skills add TiagoDanin/Android-Debug-Bridge-MCP --skill adb-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TiagoDanin/Android-Debug-Bridge-MCP

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,105 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 $0.00096 $0.02105
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01052
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00421
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00211

Measured 4d ago against content hash 73bcf58c3761, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adb-cli 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 4d 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.

skills/adb-cli/SKILL.md · 218 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 218 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ADB Agent CLI

adb-agent lets you drive a connected Android device or emulator from a normal shell. It is the terminal half of Android-Debug-Bridge-MCP — the MCP server drives the same engine through tool calls instead.

Use the CLI when the flow is a sequence of steps you want to chain in one call, when artifacts should land on disk, or when the same flow has to run in a script or CI job. Use the MCP tools when you want screenshots inline in the conversation.

If adb-agent is not on the PATH, npx -p android-debug-bridge-mcp adb-agent works anywhere, and node dist/cli/index.js works inside a built checkout.

Start with doctor

adb-agent doctor

Three checks: adb on the PATH, a device in the device state, and uiautomator able to dump the current screen. Every other command depends on all three, so fix what it reports before going further — a red doctor means the failures you see later will be misleading.

The two rules that matter

1. Read the screen before you act. Never tap coordinates you guessed. Dump the tree, find the element, then act on it:

adb-agent ui find "Sign in" --json
adb-agent ui tap "Sign in"

ui tap re-reads the screen, ranks matches against text, content-description and resource-id, and taps the best one. It survives layout and resolution changes in a way fixed coordinates do not.

2. Coordinates are fractions by default. input tap 0.5 0.7 taps the middle of the lower half on any screen size. Values above 1 are pixels. Force either reading with --norm or --px.

Command surface

Every command accepts --json, -d/--device <serial> and -q/--quiet. Run adb-agent <group> --help for the exact usage of a group.

Group What it covers
device list, info, connect, disconnect, wait, reboot
ui dump, find, tap, wait
input tap, double-tap, long-press, swipe, scroll, text, key, keys, clear
app list, launch, stop, restart, clear, info, install, uninstall, grant, revoke, current
screen shot, record, rotate, state, wake, sleep, unlock
system wifi, data, airplane, connectivity, logcat, clear-logcat, deeplink, broadcast, push, pull, setting, props, processes, memory, battery, notifications, shell
test folder, artifacts
skills list, get
doctor one-shot environment check

Read the full file on GitHub · 218 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. 4d ago First seen · 218 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 73bcf58c3761

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adb-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository TiagoDanin/Android-Debug-Bridge-MCP (32 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 2,105 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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