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 for the full design and phased plan.

Screenshots

Overview	Packages	Logs

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

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

Run the TUI

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

Run the MCP server

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

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:

{
  "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:

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:

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:

git tag v0.1.0
git push origin v0.1.0

List in the MCP registry

The official MCP registry publishes via a dedicated CLI and validates namespace ownership through GitHub OAuth. A starter server.json is included in this repo — update its version to match each crates.io release, then:

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:

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