expo-brownfield

expo-brownfield is a skill for Codex from fanfan-de/anybox. It costs 64 tokens per session (723 once invoked), scanned B, a copy of expo-brownfield, MIT.

A guide for adding Expo and React Native to an existing native iOS or Android app. This approach is called brownfield development because the app already has native code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to embed React Native through a separate library or an integrated native build, including AAR and XCFramework setups.
Why use it?
It helps teams choose how React Native code should fit into an existing Kotlin, Swift, Gradle, or CocoaPods project.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to embed React Native through a separate library or an integrated native build, including AAR and XCFramework setups.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fanfan-de/anybox/expo-brownfield
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add fanfan-de/anybox --skill expo-brownfield
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fanfan-de/anybox

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 723 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 91% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00064 $0.00723
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00362
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00072

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6c17e12e1ec3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

expo-brownfield scanned grade B 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 9d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

The integrated approach additionally requires **CocoaPods** on iOS (`sudo gem install cocoapods`). The isolated approach does **not** require CocoaPods or any RN tooling in the consuming native app.
Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to expo-brownfield — 37 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.

plugins/Anybox-Plugins/expo/skills/expo-brownfield/SKILL.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Expo Brownfield

A brownfield app is an existing native iOS or Android app that adopts React Native incrementally, as opposed to a greenfield app that is React Native from day one.

Expo supports two distinct ways to add React Native to a brownfield project:

Approach What ships to the native app When to choose
Isolated Prebuilt AAR / XCFramework Native team doesn't need Node or RN tooling; RN code can live in a separate repo
Integrated React Native sources added to the existing Gradle / CocoaPods build One team owns everything; comfortable with RN tooling; wants a single build

For the full decision matrix, see ./references/comparison.md.

Pick an approach

Use these quick rules — fall through to comparison.md for anything ambiguous.

  • Choose isolated if the iOS/Android team must consume RN as a regular library dependency (AAR or XCFramework), without installing Node, Yarn, or the React Native build toolchain.
  • Choose isolated if RN code and native code live in separate repositories or release on independent cadences.
  • Choose integrated if a single team owns both the native and RN code and is willing to add React Native + Expo to the native project's Gradle and CocoaPods setup.
  • Choose integrated if you want hot reload and JS source maps to work seamlessly inside the existing native build process.

References

  • ./references/brownfield-isolated.md -- Build RN as AAR/XCFramework and consume from the native app (BrownfieldActivity, ReactNativeViewController, ReactNativeView)
  • ./references/brownfield-integrated.md -- Add RN and Expo directly to existing Gradle and CocoaPods builds (ReactActivity, RCTRootView, Podfile)
  • ./references/comparison.md -- Decision criteria, trade-offs, and scenario mapping for choosing an approach
  • ./references/troubleshooting.md -- Metro connection, build, signing, and module-resolution issues common to both approaches

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 9d ago First seen · 55 lines · 64 tokens per session scan B 6c17e12e1ec3

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expo-brownfield is a skill published in the GitHub repository fanfan-de/anybox (57 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 723 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). It is 91% identical to expo-brownfield, differing in 37 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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