upgrading-react-native

upgrading-react-native is a skill for Codex from callstackincubator/agent-skills. It costs 83 tokens per session (993 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for moving a React Native mobile app to a newer version. React Native is the framework used to build the app, while CocoaPods and Gradle manage parts of its iPhone and Android builds.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to apply official template differences, update packages, migrate iOS and Android settings, handle Expo upgrades when relevant, and run post-upgrade checks.
Why use it?
Version upgrades can require coordinated dependency, native-project, and breaking-API changes, so changing only the version number may leave the app broken.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

not rated 1.7krepo +7 9d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: warn 83 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to apply official template differences, update packages, migrate iOS and Android settings, handle Expo upgrades when relevant, and run post-upgrade checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/callstackincubator/agent-skills/upgrading-react-native
About the project

Callstack Agent Skills is a collection of instructions that gives AI coding assistants practical knowledge for building React Native applications. Developers use it for app development, performance, navigation, testing, CI, device automation, and migrations to React Native. The catalogue entries are the project's skills, rules, and instructions for compatible coding assistants.

callstackincubator/agent-skills · 1,673 stars · on GitHub

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.

Any agent
npx skills add callstackincubator/agent-skills --skill upgrading-react-native
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/callstackincubator/agent-skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 993 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 15 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 15 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 38
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00083 $0.00993
Opus 5.5 $0.00033 $0.00397
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00199
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00099

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5d81737d25e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

upgrading-react-native scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -L -f -o /tmp/rn-diff.diff \
skills/upgrading-react-native/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Upgrading React Native

Overview

Covers the full React Native upgrade workflow: template diffs via Upgrade Helper, dependency updates, Expo SDK steps, and common pitfalls.

Typical Upgrade Sequence

  1. Route: Choose the right upgrade path via [upgrading-react-native.md][upgrading-react-native]
  2. Diff: Fetch the canonical template diff using Upgrade Helper via [upgrade-helper-core.md][upgrade-helper-core]
  3. Dependencies: Assess and update third-party packages via [upgrading-dependencies.md][upgrading-dependencies]
  4. React: Align React version if upgraded via [react.md][react]
  5. Expo (if applicable): Apply Expo SDK layer via [expo-sdk-upgrade.md][expo-sdk-upgrade]
  6. Verify: Run post-upgrade checks via [upgrade-verification.md][upgrade-verification]
# Quick start: detect current version and fetch diff
npm pkg get dependencies.react-native --prefix "$APP_DIR"
npm view react-native dist-tags.latest

# Example: upgrading from 0.76.9 to 0.78.2
# 1. Fetch the template diff
curl -L -f -o /tmp/rn-diff.diff \
  "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/react-native-community/rn-diff-purge/diffs/diffs/0.76.9..0.78.2.diff" \
  && echo "Diff downloaded OK" || echo "ERROR: diff not found, check versions"
# 2. Review changed files
grep -n "^diff --git" /tmp/rn-diff.diff
# 3. Update package.json, apply native changes, then install + rebuild
npm install --prefix "$APP_DIR"
cd "$APP_DIR/ios" && pod install
# 4. Validate: both platforms must build successfully
npx react-native build-android --mode debug --no-packager
xcodebuild -workspace "$APP_DIR/ios/App.xcworkspace" -scheme App -sdk iphonesimulator build

When to Apply

Reference these guidelines when:

  • Moving a React Native app to a newer version
  • Reconciling native config changes from Upgrade Helper
  • Validating release notes for breaking changes

Quick Reference

File Description
[upgrading-react-native.md][upgrading-react-native] Router: choose the right upgrade path
[upgrade-helper-core.md][upgrade-helper-core] Core Upgrade Helper workflow and reliability gates
[upgrading-dependencies.md][upgrading-dependencies] Dependency compatibility checks and migration planning
[react.md][react] React and React 19 upgrade alignment rules
[expo-sdk-upgrade.md][expo-sdk-upgrade] Expo SDK-specific upgrade layer (conditional)
[upgrade-verification.md][upgrade-verification] Post-upgrade verification checklist, including agent-device-assisted checks
[monorepo-singlerepo-targeting.md][monorepo-singlerepo-targeting] Monorepo and single-repo app targeting and command scoping

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 80 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 5d81737d25e4

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upgrading-react-native is a skill published in the GitHub repository callstackincubator/agent-skills (1,673 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 993 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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