DroidClaw – Turn old Android phones into AI agents

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Hey all, I built an open-source tool that lets you give an Android phone a goal in plain English. It reads the accessibility tree, sends the UI state to an LLM, executes actions via ADB, and loops until the task is done.The core loop: dump accessibility tree via uiautomator → parse and filter to ~40 relevant elements → LLM returns {think, plan, action} → execute via ADB → repeat.Some technical decisions worth noting:- Primary input is the accessibility tree, not vision. Vision (screenshots + multimodal model) is only a fallback for when the tree is empty (WebViews, Flutter).- Stuck detection: if the screen state doesn't change for 3 steps, recovery kicks in with back navigation, home, or app

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