Agent skill

Paging

by rcosteira79 in rcosteira79/android-skills

MITAuto-check passedTesting & QA

Install Paging

skills CLI

$ npx skills add rcosteira79/android-skills --skill paging -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install rcosteira79/android-skills paging --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/rcosteira79/android-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/android-skills/skills/paging .claude/skills/paging && 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/

Paste into Claude Code

Install the "paging" agent skill from https://github.com/rcosteira79/android-skills/tree/main/plugins/android-skills/skills/paging into .claude/skills/paging/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "paging", then confirm the skill loads.

Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

$skill-installer

$skill-installer install https://github.com/rcosteira79/android-skills/tree/main/plugins/android-skills/skills/paging

Type this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add rcosteira79/android-skills --skill paging -a codex

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install rcosteira79/android-skills paging --agent codex

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rcosteira79/android-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/android-skills/skills/paging .agents/skills/paging && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.

Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/

Paste into Codex

Install the "paging" agent skill from https://github.com/rcosteira79/android-skills/tree/main/plugins/android-skills/skills/paging into .agents/skills/paging/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "paging", then confirm the skill loads.

Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add rcosteira79/android-skills --skill paging -a cursor

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install rcosteira79/android-skills paging --agent cursor

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rcosteira79/android-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/android-skills/skills/paging .cursor/skills/paging && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.

Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/

Paste into Cursor

Install the "paging" agent skill from https://github.com/rcosteira79/android-skills/tree/main/plugins/android-skills/skills/paging into .cursor/skills/paging/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "paging", then confirm the skill loads.

Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

gemini skills install

$ gemini skills install https://github.com/rcosteira79/android-skills.git --path plugins/android-skills/skills/paging

--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add rcosteira79/android-skills --skill paging -a gemini-cli

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install rcosteira79/android-skills paging --agent gemini-cli

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rcosteira79/android-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/android-skills/skills/paging .gemini/skills/paging && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.

Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into Gemini CLI

Install the "paging" agent skill from https://github.com/rcosteira79/android-skills/tree/main/plugins/android-skills/skills/paging into .gemini/skills/paging/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "paging", then confirm the skill loads.

Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install rcosteira79/android-skills paging

Installs for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

skills CLI

$ npx skills add rcosteira79/android-skills --skill paging -a github-copilot

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rcosteira79/android-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/android-skills/skills/paging .github/skills/paging && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.

GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into GitHub Copilot

Install the "paging" agent skill from https://github.com/rcosteira79/android-skills/tree/main/plugins/android-skills/skills/paging into .github/skills/paging/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "paging", then confirm the skill loads.

GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add rcosteira79/android-skills --skill paging -a opencode

OpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install rcosteira79/android-skills paging --agent opencode

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rcosteira79/android-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/android-skills/skills/paging .opencode/skills/paging && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.

OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into OpenCode

Install the "paging" agent skill from https://github.com/rcosteira79/android-skills/tree/main/plugins/android-skills/skills/paging into .opencode/skills/paging/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "paging", then confirm the skill loads.

OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

Facts

Skill name: paging
GitHub stars: 151
Token cost: ~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length: 357 words
Files: 1
Skills in repo: 21
Repo updated: Sep 19, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: MIT

At a glance

Implementing paginated lists in Android
SKILL.md covers Version (current fact), Dual-flow rule — PagingData is…, cachedIn placement and itemKey is mandatory in…, plus 2 more sections
Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
Compose with Paging 3 — PagingSource

What it does

Paging is an agent skill from rcosteira79/android-skills. Use when implementing paginated lists in Android or Compose with Paging 3 — PagingSource, Pager and PagingConfig setup, RemoteMediator for offline-first lists, LazyPagingItems and itemKey integration in LazyColumn, dynamic filters via flatMapLatest, and unit tests with TestPager and asSnapshot. Triggers include Paging 3, infinite list, infinite scroll, paginated list, LazyPagingItems, collectAsLazyPagingItems, and cachedIn.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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 Testing & QA, covering Unit testing. It works with Android. The repository describes itself as: Claude Code skills for Android & KMP development. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

Implementing paginated lists in Android
Compose with Paging 3 — PagingSource
Pager and PagingConfig setup
RemoteMediator for offline-first lists

Example prompts

“/paging”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 0f9af5a. 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
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are kotlin).
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):
- github.com
- developer.android.com
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

Paging loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 109 tokens; SKILL.md has 357 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~109
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~1.3k

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 rcosteira79/android-skills at commit 0f9af5a, republished under its MIT licence (© rcosteira79). 357 words, ~1,257 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/paging/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).

name: paging
description: Use when implementing paginated lists in Android or Compose with Paging 3 — PagingSource, Pager and PagingConfig setup, RemoteMediator for offline-first lists, LazyPagingItems and itemKey integration in LazyColumn, dynamic filters via flatMapLatest, and unit tests with TestPager and asSnapshot. Triggers include Paging 3, infinite list, infinite scroll, paginated list, LazyPagingItems, collectAsLazyPagingItems, and cachedIn.

Paging 3 for Android and Compose

Adapted from Meet-Miyani/compose-skill's Paging references. MIT licensed. Related: android-skills:android-data-layer (non-paged repository), android-skills:android-retrofit / android-skills:kmp-ktor (network feeding PagingSource), android-skills:compose (LazyColumn).

This reference covers the current-version fact, the placement and identity rules that are easy to get wrong, and the RemoteMediator offline-first timing — not the basics of PagingSource / Pager / collectAsLazyPagingItems.

Version (current fact)

As of androidx.paging 3.5.0, paging-common, paging-compose, and paging-testing are Kotlin Multiplatform (Android, JVM, iOS, Native, JS/Wasm); only paging-runtime (and -guava/-rxjava) stay Android-only. So in a clean-architecture domain module, depend only on androidx.paging:paging-common — it ships PagingSource / PagingData / LoadResult with no Android dependency, so PagingSource interfaces and use cases can live in domain. (Verify the current version and KMP support at the releases page.)

Dual-flow rule — `PagingData` is its own `Flow`, never a field in `UiState`

Expose uiState: StateFlow<UiState> AND pagingItems: Flow<PagingData<T>> as separate properties.

kotlin

val uiState: StateFlow<UiState> = _uiState.asStateFlow()
val pagingItems: Flow<PagingData<RepoUi>> =
    Pager(PagingConfig(pageSize = 20, prefetchDistance = 5, enablePlaceholders = false)) { repo.repoPagingSource() }
        .flow
        .map { data -> data.map { it.toUi() } }   // transforms BEFORE cachedIn
        .cachedIn(viewModelScope)

If PagingData rides inside UiState, every non-paging state change (selection, filter chip, snackbar) re-emits UiState and hands collectAsLazyPagingItems() a brand-new Flow<PagingData> — it drops its cache, restarts loads, and resets scroll to top.

`cachedIn` placement

cachedIn(viewModelScope) sits at the bottom of the chain: after any flatMapLatest (filters/search), and after every map / filter / insertSeparators. Anything chained after cachedIn re-runs in each collector's scope (re-transforming cached data, desyncing separators); a cachedIn placed inside a flatMapLatest lambda leaks a fresh cache on every filter change.

kotlin

val pagingItems = combine(_query.debounce(300).distinctUntilChanged(), _status.distinctUntilChanged(), ::Pair)
    .flatMapLatest { (q, s) -> Pager(PagingConfig(20)) { repo.repoPagingSource(q, s) }.flow.map { it.map(RepoDto::toUi) } }
    .cachedIn(viewModelScope)

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`itemKey` is mandatory in `LazyColumn`

kotlin

items(
    count = pagingItems.itemCount,
    key = pagingItems.itemKey { it.id },              // stable domain id
    contentType = pagingItems.itemContentType { "repo" },
) { idx -> pagingItems[idx]?.let { RepoRow(it) } }

Without itemKey, LazyColumn reuses slots by index — a prepended page shifts every existing item's identity, so row state / rememberSaveable / animations target the wrong slot and scroll visibly jumps. (pagingItems[i] reads and triggers a load near the edge; peek(i) reads without loading. Call retry() / refresh() from event handlers or a LaunchedEffect, never a composable body.)

`RemoteMediator` (offline-first)

With offline-first paging the Room DAO is the PagingSource and a RemoteMediator drives network refresh + DB writes. Wrap those writes in db.withTransaction { }, and clear local state on LoadType.REFRESH. Gate the full-screen loader on loadState.source.refresh + itemCount == 0 — not the combined loadState.refresh, which flips to NotLoading before Room finishes writing and drops the spinner a frame early.

Testing — `TestPager` / `asSnapshot`, never `.first()`

A paging flow is hot and never completes, so .first() / .toList() on it hangs. Use paging-testing:

kotlin

@Test fun `source returns first page`() = runTest {
    val pager = TestPager(PagingConfig(10), RepoPagingSource(FakeGitHubService(repo1, repo2), "kotlin"))
    val page = pager.refresh() as PagingSource.LoadResult.Page
    assertEquals(2, page.data.size); assertNull(page.prevKey); assertEquals(2, page.nextKey)
}

@Test fun `viewmodel paging flow exposes first pages`() = runTest {
    val items = RepoListViewModel(FakeRepoRepository()).pagingItems.asSnapshot { scrollTo(index = 30) }
    assertTrue(items.size >= 30)
}

Files

Just SKILL.md in plugins/android-skills/skills/paging of rcosteira79/android-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 0f9af5a

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Works with

Android

Questions about Paging

What does Paging do?

A skill your agent uses when implementing paginated lists in Android or Compose with Paging 3 — PagingSource, Pager and PagingConfig setup, RemoteMediator for offline-first lists, LazyPagingItems…. Paging is an agent skill from rcosteira79/android-skills. Use when implementing paginated lists in Android or Compose with Paging 3 — PagingSource, Pager and PagingConfig setup, RemoteMediator for offline-first lists, LazyPagingItems and itemKey integration in LazyColumn, dynamic filters via flatMapLatest, and unit tests with TestPager and asSnapshot.

When should I use Paging?

Paging fits situations like: implementing paginated lists in Android; compose with Paging 3 — PagingSource; pager and PagingConfig setup; remoteMediator for offline-first lists.

How do I install Paging in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add rcosteira79/android-skills --skill paging -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/android-skills/skills/paging in rcosteira79/android-skills) into .claude/skills/paging in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Paging in Codex?

Run `npx skills add rcosteira79/android-skills --skill paging -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/android-skills/skills/paging in rcosteira79/android-skills) into .agents/skills/paging in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Paging 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 rcosteira79/android-skills --skill paging -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/paging, .gemini/skills/paging, .github/skills/paging and .opencode/skills/paging in your project.

What does Paging need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Paging is instructions for the agent only.

Does Paging access the network?

SKILL.md names 2 domains. As links in the text: github.com and developer.android.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Paging 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 Paging use?

Paging 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 Paging use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5k 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 Paging?

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Who maintains Paging?

rcosteira79 (a GitHub user) maintains it in rcosteira79/android-skills, which has 151 GitHub stars. The repository holds 21 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 19, 2026.

Source: rcosteira79/android-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.

Install Paging

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

Paging 3 for Android and Compose

Version (current fact)

Dual-flow rule — PagingData is its own Flow, never a field in UiState

cachedIn placement

itemKey is mandatory in LazyColumn

RemoteMediator (offline-first)

Testing — TestPager / asSnapshot, never .first()

Files

Compare with similar skills

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Related

Questions about Paging

Dual-flow rule — `PagingData` is its own `Flow`, never a field in `UiState`

`cachedIn` placement

`itemKey` is mandatory in `LazyColumn`

`RemoteMediator` (offline-first)

Testing — `TestPager` / `asSnapshot`, never `.first()`