# play-policy-insights

Audits Android applications against Google Play Policy rules before submission. It flags undeclared data collection, permission hygiene risks, and account handling issues.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1300 installs · ★ 9764
- Author: Google LLC
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/android/skills/tree/HEAD/play/play-policy-insights/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/play-policy-insights

## What it does

The skill inspects Android codebases against Google Play compliance domains using static analysis. It invokes `scripts/orchestrator.py` to compare manifest declarations and API calls against required store disclosures. If the orchestrator script fails, execution halts immediately. Manual fallback auditing is disallowed.

Work runs in two distinct phases: triage and goal-oriented inspection. All temporary logs remain confined strictly to `.scratch/play_policy_insights_<uuid>` inside the project root. If the environment supports sub-agents, it launches up to 3 workers in parallel, reads their JSON outputs, and aggregates results. Python 3 is required on the host system.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add android/skills --skill play-policy-insights -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/play-policy-insights/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/play-policy-insights/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add android/skills --skill play-policy-insights -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/play-policy-insights/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add android/skills --skill play-policy-insights -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/play-policy-insights/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install android/skills play-policy-insights
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/play-policy-insights/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add android/skills --skill play-policy-insights -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/android/skills --path play/play-policy-insights
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/play-policy-insights/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add android/skills --skill play-policy-insights -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/android/skills/tree/HEAD/play/play-policy-insights/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- detect undeclared data collection across Android application code
- inspect manifest permissions and restricted API hygiene
- audit user account deletion and identity compliance
- cross-reference code-level data transmission with Data Safety declarations

## Example prompts
- Audit the Android project in ./app against Google Play policies using play-policy-insights
- Run a compliance check on permissions and data safety with play-policy-insights for app_dir

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: play-policy-insights
description: Automated auditor designed to verify Android applications against Google Play Policy domains. It cross-references static code analysis with Play Store declarations to generate deterministic compliance reports, identifying undeclared data collection, architectural risks, and missing disclosures across Permissions and APIs Hygiene, User Account and Identity, and Data Safety and Privacy domains.
license: Complete terms in LICENSE.txt
metadata:
  author: Google LLC
  last-updated: '2026-07-13'
  keywords:
  - account deletion
  - accessibility api
  - all files access
  - audio recording
  - audit
  - compliance
  - contacts access
  - data disclosure
  - data safety
  - data safety label
  - data transmission
  - demo credentials
  - exact alarm
  - foreground services
  - location access
  - login credentials
  - manifest hygiene
  - package visibility
  - permissions hygiene
  - photo and video access
  - photopicker
  - play policy
  - pre-submission audit
  - privacy policy
  - prominent disclosure
  - restricted permissions
  - scoped storage
  - sms and call log
  - static analysis
  - target sdk
  - user consent
---

# Play Policy Insights: data safety, login credentials, and restricted permissions

You must audit Android apps for three specific policy domains. You must check
data safety, demo login credentials, and restricted permissions.

## Path Resolution

*   **repo_root**: Absolute path to the directory containing this `SKILL.md`.
*   **app_dir**:: Absolute path to the directory containing app's code.
*   **temp_dir**: Absolute path to the scratch directory at the workspace root.
    It is located at `.scratch/play_policy_insights_<uuid>`. **Containment
    Mandate**: You must confine all file system writes, intermediate artifacts,
    and logs strictly to this directory. This ensures the skill remains portable
    and safe across diverse execution environments, including local harnesses
    and CI/CD pipelines, by avoiding reliance on system-level temporary paths or
    user home directories.

## Critical mandates

-   **Execution Mode Awareness** Before starting Phase 2, evaluate if your
    execution environment provides a tool to spawn or delegate tasks to
    general-purpose sub-agents (e.g., tools often named `invoke_agent`,
    `delegate_task`, or `spawn_worker`, using generic agent profiles like
    'generalist' or 'coding_agent').

-   If **YES**, you MUST use **Mode A (Delegation)**.

-   If **NO**, use **Mode B (Sequential Self-Execution)**. You must read the
    prompt files intended for the subagents, follow their instructions, and
    write the expected output files to disk.

-   **Sub-agents orchestration:**

    -   If you use "Mode A (Delegation)", wait for "SUCCESS" confirmation from
        sub-agents to know when they are done.

    -   **Idempotency & Timeout Safeguard**: If a sub-agent fails or times out,
        you MUST verify the presence and integrity of its target output file
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