auditing-android-intent-redirection-and-pendingintent

auditing-android-intent-redirection-and-pendingintent is a skill for Claude Code from UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills. It costs 184 tokens per session (2,120 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security-audit guide for Android intent redirection and mutable PendingIntent bugs. An intent is an Android message asking a component to perform an action; a PendingIntent lets another app perform a later action using the first app's identity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review forwarded intents, nested intents, shared PendingIntents, their targets, and who can control their contents. It helps assess whether protected components or operations can be reached indirectly.
Why use it?
It helps find cases where an untrusted app can steer a privileged app toward protected components or actions. This prevents an app from accidentally lending its permissions to an attacker.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the security-agent-skills plugin — 194 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review forwarded intents, nested intents, shared PendingIntents, their targets, and who can control their contents. It helps assess whether protected components or operations can be reached indirectly.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/auditing-android-intent-redirection-and-pendingintent
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills --skill auditing-android-intent-redirection-and-pendingintent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install security-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 194 skills.

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Per session 184 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,120 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.
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 $0.00184 $0.02120
Opus 5.5 $0.00074 $0.00848
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00037 $0.00424
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00212

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b94af3580f9b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

auditing-android-intent-redirection-and-pendingintent 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 1mo 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/auditing-android-intent-redirection-and-pendingintent/SKILL.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Auditing Android intent redirection and PendingIntent: when an app relays an attacker's intent

An Android app acts on intents, and two patterns let an untrusted caller borrow the app's privilege. In intent redirection, a component receives an intent that carries another intent inside it and then launches that nested intent; if the component is reachable by other apps and forwards the nested intent without constraint, an untrusted caller supplies an intent aimed at a protected component the caller could not reach directly, and the privileged app launches it with the app's own identity. In the pending-intent case, the app creates a token that lets another app perform an operation as the app later; if that token is mutable and under-specified, the other app fills in the missing parts, target, action, or data, and directs the operation where it wants, still under the app's identity. In both, the app relays an attacker's intent and lends its privilege to the destination. The bug is a privileged component launching or sending an intent an untrusted caller controls. You audit these by finding every forwarded and shared intent and checking what the caller can steer.

When to use

  • An Android app forwards an intent it extracts from a received intent's extras or data.
  • The app creates pending intents shared with other apps or delivered implicitly.
  • A reachable component launches or sends intents on behalf of its caller.

Scope check

Audit intent redirection only on apps and devices you own or are authorized to assess, on test devices and accounts, driving the component with a benign test app you control rather than acting against real data. A confirmed redirection reaches protected components with the app's privilege, so keep every probe within scope. If you can't name the authorization, stop.

The loop

  1. Establish whether the caller can actually steer the launched or sent intent first. For each component that forwards a nested intent or shares a pending intent, determine whether the target and contents are fixed by the app, or whether an untrusted caller can supply or fill in the intent that is ultimately launched or sent. This is the false-positive killer: a component that launches only a fully specified, app-fixed intent, or a pending intent that is immutable and complete, cannot be steered by an attacker. Name the attacker-controlled part before crafting an intent.

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 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. 1mo ago First seen · 142 lines · 184 tokens per session scan A b94af3580f9b

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auditing-android-intent-redirection-and-pendingintent is a skill published in the GitHub repository UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 184 tokens to every session and 2,120 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-09.

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