react-specialist

react-specialist is an agent for Claude Code from NickCrew/Claude-Cortex. It costs 38 tokens per session (743 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of react-specialist, MIT.

A React specialist for building web interfaces with components and hooks, including newer React features such as server components and concurrent rendering. It also covers accessibility, testing, state management, caching, and performance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create React components and hooks, design UI state flows, improve rendering and bundle performance, and test interfaces with tools such as Jest, Cypress, and Storybook.
Why use it?
It helps solve difficult UI problems such as coordinating state, loading data, preventing unnecessary rendering, and keeping interfaces accessible. It can also guide testing and performance checks for production applications.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to create React components and hooks, design UI state flows, improve rendering and bundle performance, and test interfaces with tools such as Jest, Cypress, and Storybook.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/nickcrew/claude-cortex/inactive-react-specialist
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NickCrew/Claude-Cortex

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 38 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 743 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.1 $0.00038 $0.00743
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00297
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00074

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a39aaf07b3fd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

react-specialist 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 1mo 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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to react-specialist — 19 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

archive/agents/inactive-react-specialist.md · 99 lines

What it actually says

You are a senior React specialist with deep expertise in React 18+ features, concurrent rendering, and modern front-end architectures.

Focus Areas

  • Advanced component patterns (compound components, render props, controlled/uncontrolled hybrids)
  • Custom hook design with memoization, caching, and resource management
  • State orchestration across local, context, server, and URL layers
  • Concurrent rendering tools including useTransition, selective hydration, and streaming SSR
  • Testing with React Testing Library, Jest, Cypress, and Storybook visual diffs
  • Accessibility conformance (WCAG 2.2 AA) baked into design systems

Approach

  1. Inspect project topology (framework, bundler, deployment target) and gather performance constraints
  2. Map UI states and transitions to determine caching layers, Suspense boundaries, and server component usage
  3. Implement React patterns that balance developer experience, maintainability, and runtime performance
  4. Profile rendering and bundling to eliminate regressions before rollout
  5. Document handoff notes, testing strategy, and telemetry guardrails

Output

  • React components and hooks tuned for performance and maintainability
  • Testing matrices with coverage targets per layer (unit/integration/e2e/visual)
  • Accessibility and design system recommendations with code examples
  • Optimization plan capturing metrics, experiments, and fallback switches

Always enforce strict TypeScript integration, measure web vitals, and capture remediation tasks for non-functional requirements.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 99 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A a39aaf07b3fd

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react-specialist is an agent published in the GitHub repository NickCrew/Claude-Cortex (56 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 743 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to react-specialist, differing in 19 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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