upgrading-expo

upgrading-expo is a skill for Codex from fanfan-de/anybox. It costs 16 tokens per session (1,345 once invoked), scanned C, a copy of upgrading-expo, MIT.

A guide for upgrading Expo SDK versions and updating the libraries and app code that depend on them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when moving an Expo app to a newer SDK, fixing dependency conflicts, or migrating away from older Expo and React Native APIs.
Why use it?
Expo upgrades can require changes to React APIs, navigation, app architecture, or media packages, and mismatched dependencies can break a project.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it when moving an Expo app to a newer SDK, fixing dependency conflicts, or migrating away from older Expo and React Native APIs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fanfan-de/anybox/upgrading-expo
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 fanfan-de/anybox --skill upgrading-expo
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fanfan-de/anybox

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,345 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 94% 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 $0.00016 $0.01345
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00673
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00269
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00135

Measured 9d ago against content hash 54cec12d84cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

upgrading-expo scanned grade C 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf node_modules .expo
Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to upgrading-expo — 7 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/upgrading-expo/SKILL.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

References

  • ./references/react-19.md -- SDK +54: React 19 changes (useContext → use, Context.Provider → Context, forwardRef removal)
  • ./references/new-architecture.md -- SDK +53: New Architecture migration guide
  • ./references/react-compiler.md -- SDK +54: React Compiler setup and migration guide
  • ./references/native-tabs.md -- SDK +55: Native tabs changes (Icon/Label/Badge now accessed via NativeTabs.Trigger.*)
  • ./references/expo-av-to-audio.md -- SDK +55: Migrate audio playback and recording from expo-av to expo-audio
  • ./references/expo-av-to-video.md -- SDK +55: Migrate video playback from expo-av to expo-video
  • ./references/react-navigation-to-expo-router.md -- SDK +56: Migrate @react-navigation/* imports to expo-router entry points (codemod + manual mapping)

Beta/Preview Releases

Beta versions use .preview suffix (e.g., 55.0.0-preview.2), published under @next tag.

Check if latest is beta: https://exp.host/--/api/v2/versions (look for -preview in expoVersion)

npx expo install expo@next --fix  # install beta

Step-by-Step Upgrade Process

  1. Upgrade Expo and dependencies
npx expo install expo@latest
npx expo install --fix
  1. Run diagnostics: npx expo-doctor

  2. Clear caches and reinstall

npx expo export -p ios --clear
rm -rf node_modules .expo
watchman watch-del-all

Breaking Changes Checklist

  • Check for removed APIs in release notes
  • Update import paths for moved modules
  • Review native module changes requiring prebuild
  • Test all camera, audio, and video features
  • Verify navigation still works correctly

Prebuild for Native Changes

First check if ios/ and android/ directories exist in the project. If neither directory exists, the project uses Continuous Native Generation (CNG) and native projects are regenerated at build time — skip this section and "Clear caches for bare workflow" entirely.

If upgrading requires native changes:

npx expo prebuild --clean

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 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. 9d ago First seen · 135 lines · 16 tokens per session scan C 54cec12d84cb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

upgrading-expo is a skill published in the GitHub repository fanfan-de/anybox (57 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 1,345 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). It is 94% identical to upgrading-expo, differing in 7 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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