android-adb-skill
AGENTS.md29 starsChanged 8 months agoMITView on GitHub
Use the local command layer first: Read docs/command-contract.md for the supported commands and output conventions. Read the relevant skills/*/SKILL.md file for task-specific workflow guidance.
Where files are headingNew AGENTS.md files have more rules about keeping secrets out of the code, and fewer about code style.
Of the AGENTS.md files we read, the 31,774 first seen in the last six months, against the older ones: the kind of rule that gained most share, and the kind that lost most. About files like this in general, not this one, and an estimate, since a kind is a pattern in the words.
In this repository13 other files it gives its agents.
- .github/copilot-instructions.mdCopilot instructions
- .cursor/rules/android-adb.mdcCursor rule
- android-debugSkill
- android-deviceSkill
- android-gestureSkill
- android-installSkill
- android-navigateSkill
- android-screenshotSkill
- android-scrollSkill
- androidSkill
- android-tapSkill
- android-testSkill
- android-uiSkill
The file
We split this AGENTS.md into the rules it gives an agent
6 rules. About 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 5 are very specific to this project.
≈0
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈1
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
5
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 3
Use the local command layer first:
- Very specific: line 9
Read docs/command-contract.md for the supported commands and output conventions.
- Very specific: line 13
Prefer ./tools/android ...
- Very specific: line 14
If multiple devices are connected, pass --device <id> or stop and ask the user to choose.
- Very specific: line 15
Verify state after each interaction with ui dump, wait element, or screenshot.
- Very specific: line 16
Use raw adb only when the command layer does not support the required operation.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 40,246 AGENTS.md files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Android Automation
Use the local command layer first:
./tools/android ...Read docs/command-contract.md for the supported commands and output conventions. Read the relevant skills/*/SKILL.md file for task-specific workflow guidance.
Default Behavior
- Prefer
./tools/android ... --jsonover rawadb. - If multiple devices are connected, pass
--device <id>or stop and ask the user to choose. - Verify state after each interaction with
ui dump,wait element, orscreenshot. - Use raw
adbonly when the command layer does not support the required operation.
Skill Entry Points
skills/android/SKILL.md— General orchestrationskills/android-screenshot/SKILL.md— Screenshotsskills/android-ui/SKILL.md— UI inspectionskills/android-tap/SKILL.md— Element tappingskills/android-navigate/SKILL.md— Navigationskills/android-scroll/SKILL.md— Scrollingskills/android-gesture/SKILL.md— Gesturesskills/android-test/SKILL.md— Test flowsskills/android-debug/SKILL.md— Debuggingskills/android-install/SKILL.md— APK installationskills/android-device/SKILL.md— Device management
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