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Built a fully autonomous Android agent — 30 tools, on-device model, and a policy gate that blocks every untraced action

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I've been building an autonomous Android agent that controls the phone through the accessibility tree. It reads the screen, decides what to do, does it, then verifies it worked — a full perceive-think-act-verify loop. What it does: 30 tools — flashlight, clipboard, SMS, app launch, web search, navi…

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  1. 2026-09-05 16:02 · r/AI_Agents
    Built a fully autonomous Android agent — 30 tools, on-device model, and a policy gate that blocks every untraced action

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