# droidprobe [Health: Active]

**Category:** 💻 Developer Tools  
**Repository:** https://github.com/orhanbalci/droidprobe  
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## Description
Read-only MCP server to inspect an Android device over ADB: hardware, packages, permissions, logs.

## Claude Desktop Quick Installation
Heuristic fallback — verify the package name and runner against the repository README before running it. Uses `npx` (confidence: low):

```json
"mcpServers": {
  "droidprobe": {
    "command": "npx",
    "args": ["-y","droidprobe"]
  }
}
```

## Documentation & README

# droidprobe

Modular Rust toolkit for inspecting an Android device over ADB (USB debugging).
One shared core powers two front-ends: a terminal UI (`droidprobe`) and an MCP
server (`droidprobe-mcp`) for agents.

See [ARCHITECTURE.md](https://github.com/orhanbalci/droidprobe/blob/HEAD/ARCHITECTURE.md) for the full design and phased plan.

## Screenshots

![droidprobe walkthrough](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/orhanbalci/droidprobe/HEAD/assets/droidprobe-demo.gif)

| Overview | Packages | Logs |
| --- | --- | --- |
| ![Overview tab](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/orhanbalci/droidprobe/HEAD/assets/screenshot-overview.png) | ![Packages tab](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/orhanbalci/droidprobe/HEAD/assets/screenshot-packages.png) | ![Logs tab](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/orhanbalci/droidprobe/HEAD/assets/screenshot-logs.png) |

## Workspace layout

```
droidprobe/
├── Cargo.toml                      # workspace + shared dep versions
├── ARCHITECTURE.md
└── crates/
    ├── droidprobe-parser/   # raw text -> structured data (pure, no I/O)
    ├── droidprobe-command/  # Command trait, Transport, built-in catalog
    ├── droidprobe-core/     # Registry + Engine + Poller
    ├── droidprobe-tui/      # ratatui binary  (bin: `droidprobe`)
    └── droidprobe-mcp/      # rmcp binary     (bin: `droidprobe-mcp`)
```

## Prerequisites

- Rust 1.82+ (`rustup` recommended)
- A running `adb` server (`adb start-server`) and a device with USB debugging
  enabled and authorized.

## Build & test

```bash
cargo build --workspace
cargo test  --workspace        # parser + command tests run without a device
```

## Run the TUI

```bash
cargo run -p droidprobe-tui
# Tab switches views, q quits. Logs are written to ./droidprobe.log
```

## Run the MCP server

```bash
cargo run -p droidprobe-mcp        # speaks MCP over stdio
```

Register it with an MCP client (e.g. Claude Desktop / Claude Code) by pointing
the client at the built binary as a stdio server. Tools are **read-only**.

### Register with Claude Code

```bash
cargo build -p droidprobe-mcp --release
claude mcp add droidprobe -- "$(pwd)/target/release/droidprobe-mcp"
claude mcp get droidprobe        # should show "Status: ✔ Connected"
```

This must run on the same machine as the `adb` server and the USB-attached
device — the server has no way to reach a device it can't `adb shell` into,
so there's no meaningful way to run it detached on remote infrastructure
unless you tunnel `adb` back to it.

### Register with Claude Desktop

Add to `claude_desktop_config.json`:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "droidprobe": {
      "command": "/absolute/path/to/target/release/droidprobe-mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

## Distributing droidprobe-mcp

### Publish to crates.io

Path-dependent crates must publish in dependency order — each one needs its
predecessors already live on crates.io before `cargo publish` will resolve:

```bash
cargo login                                    # one-time, needs your crates.io API token
cargo publish -p droidprobe-parser
cargo publish -p droidprobe-command            # only after droidprobe-parser is live
cargo publish -p droidprobe-core               # only after droidprobe-command is live
cargo publish -p droidprobe-mcp                # only after droidprobe-core is live
cargo publish -p droidprobe-tui                # optional, same dependency floor as mcp
```

crates.io indexes new releases within a minute or two; `cargo publish` for a
downstream crate will fail with "no matching package found" if you run it
too soon after the one before it. Once `droidprobe-mcp` is published, anyone
with Rust installed can run:

```bash
cargo install droidprobe-mcp
```

### Prebuilt binaries (no Rust toolchain needed)

`.github/workflows/release.yml` cross-builds both `droidprobe` (TUI) and
`droidprobe-mcp` for macOS (Intel + Apple Silicon), Linux x86_64, and Windows
x86_64 whenever a `v*.*.*` tag is pushed, and attaches the archives to a
GitHub Release:

```bash
git tag v0.1.0
git push origin v0.1.0
```

### List in the MCP registry

The [official MCP registry](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry)
publishes via a dedicated CLI and validates namespace ownership through
GitHub OAuth. A starter [server.json](https://github.com/orhanbalci/droidprobe/blob/HEAD/server.json) is included in this repo
— update its `version` to match each crates.io release, then:

```bash
brew install mcp-publisher
mcp-publisher login github
mcp-publisher publish        # validates server.json and submits it
```

## Adding your own command

Implement `Command`, wrap it in `TypedDyn`, and register it:

```rust
let mut registry = droidprobe_core::registry::Registry::with_builtins();
registry.register(Box::new(droidprobe_command::TypedDyn(MyCommand)));
```

## Status

10 tested parsers, 10 built-in commands, the registry/engine/poller, a TUI
with Overview/Packages/Logs tabs (package search, permissions, and
activity/service/receiver/provider component tabs), and a 10-tool MCP server
covering the same device/package/log surface. Phases 2–6 (parser breadth, TUI
depth, ATK command parity, MCP polish, robustness) are described in
ARCHITECTURE.md.

## License

MIT