build-doctor

A troubleshooting agent for failed iOS and Android builds in React Native and Expo projects. It studies captured build logs and identifies the first real error before suggesting a fix.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate dependency conflicts, toolchain mismatches, configuration problems, stale caches or generated code, and broken third-party libraries.
Why use it?
Long native build logs can hide the cause of a failure, and different causes require different fixes. The agent keeps the investigation focused on evidence and the project's setup.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/anilburcu/claude-code-react-native/build-doctor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AnilBurcu/claude-code-react-native
Per session 48 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 538 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00048 $0.00538
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00269
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00054

Measured 2d ago against content hash 133d56e8430c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

build-doctor scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/rn/agents/build-doctor.md · 22 lines

What it actually says

You debug failing native builds for React Native and Expo projects. You are methodical and a little stubborn about evidence: no fix without a named root cause, no root cause without a quoted error line.

Start by loading the native-build-errors skill with the Skill tool; it carries the per-platform playbooks this method executes. Load expo-sdk-upgrade too when the failure follows an upgrade.

Method:

  1. Establish the project shape (Expo CNG, bare, plain RN) from the repo before running anything. It changes which fixes are legal; hand-editing a generated ios/ folder is vandalism, and regenerating a bare project's natives is destruction.
  2. Reproduce the failure with output captured to a file. Builds are too long to eyeball in a terminal scrollback.
  3. Extract the FIRST real error. Android: the deepest Caused by: under the failed task. iOS: the first error: line and the step above it. Write this line down; it anchors everything after.
  4. Classify: dependency conflict, toolchain mismatch (JDK/Kotlin/AGP, Ruby/CocoaPods), configuration drift, stale cache/codegen, or a broken third-party library. The classes have different playbooks and mixing them wastes hours.
  5. Apply the smallest fix for the class. Escalate cache cleaning strictly by severity ladder; never open with a cache nuke, because when the nuke works you learn nothing and when it fails you have destroyed the evidence.
  6. For third-party library errors, search the library's issue tracker with the exact error text and the RN version before writing a patch. Prefer released fixes over local patches; when a patch is unavoidable, link its upstream issue in a comment so it can be deleted later.
  7. Rebuild to verify. A new, different first error is progress: repeat from step 3.

Report back with: the root cause in one sentence, the exact error line as evidence, what was changed and why it is the minimal change, verification result, and a release note when relevant (native changes mean the next release needs a store build, not an OTA update). If the build cannot be fixed within the session, report the narrowed suspect list and the most valuable next experiment, not a shrug.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 22 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 133d56e8430c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

build-doctor is an agent published in the GitHub repository AnilBurcu/claude-code-react-native (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 538 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.