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Agent skill

Argent Android Emulator Setup

by bbplayer-app in bbplayer-app/BBPlayer

Set up and connect to an Android emulator using argent MCP tools.

MITAuto-check passedMobile

Install Argent Android Emulator Setup

skills CLI
$ npx skills add bbplayer-app/BBPlayer --skill argent-android-emulator-setup -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install bbplayer-app/BBPlayer argent-android-emulator-setup --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bbplayer-app/BBPlayer.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/argent-android-emulator-setup .claude/skills/argent-android-emulator-setup && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
argent-android-emulator-setup
GitHub stars
1.1k
Token cost
~815 tokens
SKILL.md length
448 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
19
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Set up and connect to an Android emulator using argent MCP tools.

  • Works in 4 steps: Prerequisites → Setup → Using the device → …
  • Starting a new session on Android
  • SKILL.md covers 1. Prerequisites, 2. Setup, 3. Using the device and 4. Notes
  • Calls adb

What it does

Argent Android Emulator Setup is an agent skill from bbplayer-app/BBPlayer. Set up and connect to an Android emulator using argent MCP tools. Use when starting a new session on Android, booting an emulator, getting a device serial, or before any UI interaction task.

Its SKILL.md is about 820 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Mobile, covering Mobile testing and debugging. It works with Android. The repository describes itself as: 一款简约、好用的 BiliBili 音乐播放器。 The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Starting a new session on Android
  • Booting an emulator
  • Getting a device serial
  • Before any UI interaction task

Example prompts

  • “/argent-android-emulator-setup”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Prerequisites
  2. Setup
  3. Using the device
  4. Notes

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1e1ae9f. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • adb

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Argent Android Emulator Setup loads about 815 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 55 tokens; SKILL.md has 448 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~55
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~815

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from bbplayer-app/BBPlayer at commit 1e1ae9f, republished under its MIT licence (© bbplayer-app). 448 words, ~815 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/argent-android-emulator-setup/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
argent-android-emulator-setup
description
Set up and connect to an Android emulator using argent MCP tools. Use when starting a new session on Android, booting an emulator, getting a device serial, or before any UI interaction task.

1. Prerequisites

  • Android SDK Platform Tools on PATH — provides adb.
  • Android Emulator on PATH — needed to boot AVDs. If you will only use an already-running emulator or a physical device, adb alone is sufficient.
  • An AVD created via Android Studio or avdmanager create avd.

Verify with adb version and emulator -list-avds.

2. Setup

  1. Find a ready device — call list-devices. Filter for entries with platform: "android". Ready devices (state: "device") come first. Pick the first serial (e.g. emulator-5554) unless the user specified one.
  2. Boot if needed — if nothing Android is ready, call boot-device with avdName: <name> from the same call's avds list. The tool transparently picks hot vs cold boot: it probes the AVD's default_boot snapshot, restores it under a tight deadline when usable, and falls back to a full cold boot otherwise. Hot path is typically ~30s; cold path takes 2–10 min. On any stage failure the tool kills the emulator process it started so your next call starts from a clean state.
  3. Metro (for React Native) — once a device is up, run adb -s <serial> reverse tcp:8081 tcp:8081 so the device can reach Metro on your host. Repeat if the device restarts. See the argent-metro-debugger skill.

3. Using the device

Pass the Android serial as udid to the unified interaction tools — gesture-tap, gesture-swipe, describe, screenshot, launch-app, keyboard, etc. Dispatch is automatic based on the id shape. See argent-device-interact for platform-neutral interaction tooling and the Android-specific gotchas section at the bottom of that skill.

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4. Notes

  • Android TV / leanback AVDs boot through this exact flow (same boot-device + avdName), but they are focus-driven, not touch-driven — do not use gesture-tap/gesture-swipe on them. list-devices tags a leanback device with runtimeKind: "tv" (detected via the system feature list, not the serial — a TV AVD's serial looks just like a phone's). When you see runtimeKind: "tv", drive it with the focus-driven tools (describe / tv-remote / keyboard) and the argent-tv-interact skill (it covers Android TV as well as Apple TV, including the full TV setup flow).
  • Serials are the adb device id. iOS UDIDs and Android serials are not interchangeable, but you do NOT need to tell the tools which platform — dispatch is automatic.
  • describe on Android returns a shallower tree than iOS (no accessibility-service equivalent), but covers most tap-target discovery.
  • reinstall-app on Android always installs with -g so first-launch runtime permissions are pre-granted.
  • To stop the emulator, run adb -s <serial> emu kill from a shell (clean shutdown). Never pkill -9/kill -9 qemu — a hard kill leaves the userdata image dirty, after which cold boots can hang for many minutes doing recovery (runaway writes, boot_completed never flips). If an image gets into that state, boot once with -wipe-data to reset it.

© bbplayer-app, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in .agents/skills/argent-android-emulator-setup of bbplayer-app/BBPlayer.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1e1ae9f

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Questions about Argent Android Emulator Setup

What does Argent Android Emulator Setup do?

Set up and connect to an Android emulator using argent MCP tools. Argent Android Emulator Setup is an agent skill from bbplayer-app/BBPlayer. Set up and connect to an Android emulator using argent MCP tools.

When should I use Argent Android Emulator Setup?

Argent Android Emulator Setup fits situations like: starting a new session on Android; booting an emulator; getting a device serial; before any UI interaction task.

How do I install Argent Android Emulator Setup in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add bbplayer-app/BBPlayer --skill argent-android-emulator-setup -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/argent-android-emulator-setup in bbplayer-app/BBPlayer) into .claude/skills/argent-android-emulator-setup in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Argent Android Emulator Setup in Codex?

Run `npx skills add bbplayer-app/BBPlayer --skill argent-android-emulator-setup -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/argent-android-emulator-setup in bbplayer-app/BBPlayer) into .agents/skills/argent-android-emulator-setup in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Argent Android Emulator Setup in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add bbplayer-app/BBPlayer --skill argent-android-emulator-setup -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/argent-android-emulator-setup, .gemini/skills/argent-android-emulator-setup, .github/skills/argent-android-emulator-setup and .opencode/skills/argent-android-emulator-setup in your project.

What does Argent Android Emulator Setup need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Argent Android Emulator Setup needs the command-line tools its instructions call (adb).

Does Argent Android Emulator Setup access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Argent Android Emulator Setup safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Argent Android Emulator Setup use?

Argent Android Emulator Setup is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Argent Android Emulator Setup use?

About 815 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Argent Android Emulator Setup?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Argent Android Emulator Setup: Phone Harness (ShawnPana/phone-harness, 3.2k stars), Mobile QA (tloncorp/tlon-apps, 107 stars), Android (yang1ming/android-harness, 175 stars) and Debug Receivers (timusus/Shuttle2, 229 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Argent Android Emulator Setup?

bbplayer-app (a GitHub organization) maintains it in bbplayer-app/BBPlayer, which has 1,126 GitHub stars. The repository holds 19 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.

Source: bbplayer-app/BBPlayer on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.