build-app-inventor-apps

build-app-inventor-apps is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from williamcorrea23/androidbuilder-mcp. It costs 48 tokens per session (779 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for building and checking projects in MIT App Inventor and similar browser-based tools, which create mobile apps with visual components and blocks instead of only handwritten code.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps inspect and modify App Inventor-family projects, export or import block data, audit AIA or AIX project archives offline, and verify changes in the browser.
Why use it?
It adds a careful process for inspecting project screens, components, properties, and blocks before making changes, reducing the risk of editing the wrong project or losing work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Codex.

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/williamcorrea23/androidbuilder-mcp/build-app-inventor-apps
Any agent
npx skills add williamcorrea23/androidbuilder-mcp --skill build-app-inventor-apps
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/williamcorrea23/androidbuilder-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 779 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 5.1 $0.00048 $0.00779
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00390
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00156
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00078

Measured 5d ago against content hash 1434d90d140b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

build-app-inventor-apps 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.

skills/build-app-inventor-apps/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Build App Inventor Apps

Use this skill when working with App Inventor-family browser IDEs through the androidbuilder-mcp server.

Workflow

  1. Confirm Chrome or Chromium is running with --remote-debugging-port=9222 using a dedicated profile.
  2. Call list_ide_tabs. When multiple tabs exist, require an explicit select_ide_tab; never infer one by title or tab order.
  3. Call get_project_info and report provider, origin, tabId, validated, capabilities, screen, and view.
  4. Use read tools before write tools:
    • list_screens
    • get_component_tree
    • get_component_properties
    • get_blocks_xml
  5. Switch views in the browser UI when a tool reports the wrong view:
    • Designer view for component tree/properties/property updates.
    • Blocks view for Blockly XML export/import/clear.
  6. Before mutating, confirm the provider exposes the required capability and the server has ANDROIDBUILDER_ALLOW_WRITE=1.
  7. A timeout has outcome: "unknown": inspect current state before any retry. Report success only after observing the requested screen/component/property/block state.
  8. Before destructive operations, require the explicit MCP confirmation token:
    • clear_blocks: confirm: "CLEAR_BLOCKS"
    • click_element: confirm: "CLICK_ELEMENT" and ANDROIDBUILDER_ALLOW_UNSAFE_CLICK=1

Safe Defaults

Treat read-only inspection as safe. Treat property updates, block injection, and block clearing as project mutations.

Prefer targeted tools over click_element. Use click_element only as a last resort, after explaining the selector and expected effect.

Provider validation is distinct from recognition. Respect the validated field returned at runtime. Do not present an unvalidated provider as production-supported. AppyBuilder is read-only/experimental.

Offline archives

Set ANDROIDBUILDER_PROJECT_ROOT to a dedicated directory and pass only paths relative to it.

  • AIA: use inspect_aia, validate_aia, diff_aia, and bounded read_archive_entry.
  • AIX: use inspect_aix, validate_aix, and bounded read_archive_entry.
  • Treat every archive as untrusted. Never execute JAR, AAR, native library, YAIL, asset, or extension code.
  • Do not claim editing, repacking, import, APK/AAB compilation, or generic ZIP support.

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 5d ago First seen · 60 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 1434d90d140b

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build-app-inventor-apps is a skill published in the GitHub repository williamcorrea23/androidbuilder-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 779 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 2026-08-31.