Android UI Automation

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Wants to control a phone-only app on Android — e.g
• The user asks why an automation didnt work (permissions
• Hidden view trees)

Example prompts

• “open Spotify and play X”
• “tap the like button”
• “swipe through my feed”
• “/android-ui-automation”

Requirements

• Python 3
• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Android-only; requires the Minis app (Android) with its bundled android-a11y-cli / android-open CLIs and the Minis Accessibility Service enabled

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Minis app installed (Android). These CLIs do not exist on other hosts
2. 2Minis Accessibility Service enabled: Settings → Accessibility → Minis.
3. 3The target app installed on the same device.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ae8c5db. 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

  Ships 3 files in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • python3

  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.

• Compatibility

  Android-only; requires the Minis app (Android) with its bundled android-a11y-cli / android-open CLIs and the Minis Accessibility Service enabled

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Android UI Automation loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.2k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 194 tokens; SKILL.md has 639 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~194

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.6k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~2.2k

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

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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from OpenMinis/MinisSkills at commit ae8c5db, republished under its MIT licence (© OpenMinis). 639 words, ~1,635 tokens.

name

android-ui-automation

description

Automate Android apps that have no public API or web version by driving the UI layer through the Accessibility Service. Handles: deep-link launch (open an app into a specific screen), intelligent node location (find a button or text by fuzzy match, not exact text), tap-and-verify (confirm an action had its effect), and human-like swipes. Use this whenever the user wants to control a phone-only app on Android — e.g. "open Spotify and play X", "tap the like button", "swipe through my feed", "play 连名带姓", anything involving `spotify://`, `weixin://`, or apps with no web/API surface. Also use when the user asks why an automation didn't work (permissions, missing app, hidden view trees). Android-only; requires the Minis Accessibility Service enabled.

compatibility

Android-only; requires the Minis app (Android) with its bundled android-a11y-cli / android-open CLIs and the Minis Accessibility Service enabled

python3 scripts/open_deep_link.py "spotify://search/circles%20post%20malone"
python3 scripts/find_node.py "添加建议"          # suggestion page → tap to get results
python3 scripts/tap_and_verify.py --query "添加建议“circles post malone”" --marker "Circles"
python3 scripts/find_node.py "Circles – Post Malone" --clickable-only
python3 scripts/tap_and_verify.py --query "Circles – Post Malone" --marker "暂停"

android-a11y-cli ui info            # confirm weixin:// foreground
android-a11y-cli gesture swipe 540 1600 540 800   # repeat with varied distance/pause

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

Files

SKILL.md and 6 other files (scripts, references) in android-ui-automation of OpenMinis/MinisSkills.

• SKILL.md
• evals/evals.json
• references/app-deep-links.md
• scripts/find_node.py
• scripts/open_deep_link.py
• scripts/tap_and_verify.py
• tests/unit_tests.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit ae8c5db