upgrade-sdk

A guided process for upgrading an Expo SDK, the software version that coordinates Expo and React Native app dependencies, one version at a time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when moving an Expo project to a newer SDK or React Native version.
Why use it?
It reduces upgrade breakage by checking the project first, aligning related packages, reviewing changes, and testing both mobile platforms and native features.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the rn plugin — 18 skills, 4 agents shipped together

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 skills/anilburcu/claude-code-react-native/upgrade-sdk
Any agent
npx skills add AnilBurcu/claude-code-react-native --skill upgrade-sdk
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AnilBurcu/claude-code-react-native

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install rn, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 4 agents.

Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 428 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 $0.00025 $0.00428
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00214
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00043

Measured 2d ago against content hash e07a9bd91c82, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

upgrade-sdk 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/skills/upgrade-sdk/SKILL.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

Upgrade this project's Expo SDK deliberately, one version at a time, following the expo-sdk-upgrade skill. $ARGUMENTS may name the target SDK; if the jump spans more than one major, tell the user you will land them one at a time and do the first hop now.

  1. Preflight, before changing anything:

    • Confirm the working tree is clean; if not, stop and ask.
    • Create an upgrade branch.
    • Record the current state: npx expo-doctor output and the dependency list. This is the baseline to diff against.
    • Read the target SDK's changelog (search for the official "Expo SDK " changelog post) and list the breaking changes that touch dependencies this project actually uses. Show that list to the user before proceeding.
  2. Execute in the canonical order: bump expo, then npx expo install --fix, then npx expo-doctor. Resolve doctor complaints before building anything.

  3. Regenerate natives when the project uses CNG: npx expo prebuild --clean. In a bare project, apply the native diffs the changelog calls out instead.

  4. Verify honestly:

    • npx tsc --noEmit and the test suite.
    • Build and boot BOTH platforms.
    • Walk the native-heavy paths: auth, purchases, camera or media if present, push, deep links.
  5. Check the OTA fence before finishing: confirm the runtime version will differ from the previous release (appVersion policy plus a version bump, or an explicit runtime bump). State plainly that the first release after this upgrade must be a store build.

  6. Report: what moved, what broke and how it was fixed, which patches or workarounds became deletable, and what remains for the user to decide. Do not commit unless asked.

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 · 28 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A e07a9bd91c82

Subscribe to this mod's changes

upgrade-sdk is a skill published in the GitHub repository AnilBurcu/claude-code-react-native (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 428 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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