react-view-transitions

react-view-transitions is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from eea/eea.agent.skills. It costs 67 tokens per session (3,085 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for adding browser-based animations between screens and interface states in React applications. React is a JavaScript tool for building user interfaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for page changes, list rearrangements, loading reveals, appearing or disappearing elements, and shared items that move from one view to another, including in Next.js apps.
Why use it?
It helps developers choose animations that explain where content went or came from, instead of adding movement without a clear purpose. Browsers that do not support the feature can skip the animations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/eea/eea.agent.skills/react-view-transitions
Any agent
npx skills add eea/eea.agent.skills --skill react-view-transitions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/eea/eea.agent.skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for react-view-transitions

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/eea/eea.agent.skills/react-view-transitions.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/eea/eea.agent.skills/react-view-transitions)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/eea/eea.agent.skills/react-view-transitions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/eea/eea.agent.skills/react-view-transitions.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,085 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 $0.00067 $0.03085
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01543
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00617
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00309

Measured 3d ago against content hash bccc4742f846, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

react-view-transitions 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 3d 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.

skills/react-view-transitions/SKILL.md · 360 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 360 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

React View Transitions

Animate between UI states using the browser's native document.startViewTransition. Declare what with <ViewTransition>, trigger when with startTransition / useDeferredValue / Suspense, control how with CSS classes. Unsupported browsers skip animations gracefully.

When to Animate

Every <ViewTransition> should communicate a spatial relationship or continuity. If you can't articulate what it communicates, don't add it.

Implement all applicable patterns from this list, in this order:

Priority Pattern What it communicates
1 Shared element (name) "Same thing — going deeper"
2 Suspense reveal "Data loaded"
3 List identity (per-item key) "Same items, new arrangement"
4 State change (enter/exit) "Something appeared/disappeared"
5 Route change (layout-level) "Going to a new place"

This is an implementation order, not a "pick one" list. Implement every pattern that fits the app. Only skip a pattern if the app has no use case for it.

Choosing Animation Style

Context Animation Why
Hierarchical navigation (list → detail) Type-keyed nav-forward / nav-back Communicates spatial depth
Lateral navigation (tab-to-tab) Bare <ViewTransition> (fade) or default="none" No depth to communicate
Suspense reveal enter/exit string props Content arriving
Revalidation / background refresh default="none" Silent — no animation needed

Reserve directional slides for hierarchical navigation (list → detail) and ordered sequences (prev/next photo, carousel, paginated results). For ordered sequences, the direction communicates position: "next" slides from right, "previous" from left. Lateral/unordered navigation (tab-to-tab) should not use directional slides — it falsely implies spatial depth.


Availability

  • Next.js: Do not install react@canary — the App Router already bundles React canary internally. ViewTransition works out of the box. npm ls react may show a stable-looking version; this is expected.
  • Without Next.js: Install react@canary react-dom@canary (ViewTransition is not in stable React).
  • Browser support: Chromium 111+, Firefox 144+, Safari 18.2+. Graceful degradation on unsupported browsers.

Read the full file on GitHub · 360 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 3d ago First seen · 360 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A bccc4742f846

Subscribe to this mod's changes

react-view-transitions is a skill published in the GitHub repository eea/eea.agent.skills (2 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 3,085 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

migrate-radix-to-base

Migrates React projects and components from Radix UI to Base UI. Use when asked to migrate from radix, move to base-ui, convert radix primitives, or switch a shadcn project's base library. Handles single components ("migrate accordion") and whole projects.

shadcn-ui/ui · 61 tokens

chakra-ui-builder

Build responsive, accessible UI components and layouts using Chakra UI v3, install or configure Chakra UI in new and existing projects, and design scalable themes using tokens, semantic tokens, recipes, and slot recipes. Use this skill whenever a user asks to build, create, or generate any UI component, page, form…

chakra-ui/chakra-ui · 214 tokens

copilotkit-develop

Use when building AI-powered features with CopilotKit v2 -- adding chat interfaces, registering frontend tools, sharing application context with agents, handling agent interrupts, and working with the CopilotKit runtime.

CopilotKit/CopilotKit · 46 tokens

copilotkit-upgrade

Use when migrating a CopilotKit v1 application to v2 -- updating package imports, replacing deprecated hooks and components, switching from GraphQL runtime to AG-UI protocol runtime, and resolving breaking API changes.

CopilotKit/CopilotKit · 48 tokens

flags

Use when you need to check feature flag states, compare channels, or debug why a feature behaves differently across release channels.

react/react · 26 tokens

material-ui-tailwind

Integrates Material UI with Tailwind CSS v4 using cascade layers (enableCssLayer, @layer order) and documents Tailwind v3 interoperability (preflight, important, injectFirst, portals). Use when combining MUI with Tailwind utilities, slotProps className, or theme token bridges.

mui/material-ui · 67 tokens