expo-dev-client

expo-dev-client is a skill for Claude Code from fatihkan/badi. It costs 68 tokens per session (1,330 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to building custom Expo development versions of a React Native mobile app instead of relying only on Expo Go. It covers build profiles, a custom developer menu, and testing updates with EAS Update.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure and build iOS or Android development clients, choose between Expo Go and a custom client, inspect the developer menu, and test EAS updates.
Why use it?
It helps when Expo Go cannot include your app's custom native code or when you need a repeatable development build. It also clarifies which app version can use a given update.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the badi plugin — 81 skills, 86 commands, 30 agents, 7 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to configure and build iOS or Android development clients, choose between Expo Go and a custom client, inspect the developer menu, and test EAS updates.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fatihkan/badi/expo-dev-client
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 fatihkan/badi --skill expo-dev-client
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fatihkan/badi

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install badi, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 81 skills, 86 commands, 30 agents, 7 hooks.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,330 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 6 findings, 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 31
    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]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 62
    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]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 63
    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]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 84
    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]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 86
    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]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 173
    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 $0.00068 $0.01330
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00665
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00266
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00133

Measured yesterday against content hash 968ad0f2f3bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

expo-dev-client 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 yesterday.

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.

.claude/skills-vault/expo-dev-client/SKILL.md · 199 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

expo-dev-client

Setting up custom development builds with expo-dev-client. Comparison with Expo Go, build profiles, a custom dev menu, runtime-version compatibility, and the EAS Update test flow.

What It Does

  • expo-dev-client setup + build profile
  • Expo Go vs Dev Client decision
  • Dev menu (cmd+D / shake) and custom actions
  • Dev launcher (multi-app, multi-server)
  • EAS Update test flow (via the dev client)
  • Runtime version & native dep compatibility

Setup

npx expo install expo-dev-client

app.json (automatic plugin):

{
  "expo": {
    "plugins": ["expo-dev-client"]
  }
}

EAS profile:

{
  "build": {
    "development": {
      "developmentClient": true,
      "distribution": "internal",
      "ios": { "simulator": true },
      "channel": "development"
    }
  }
}

Build:

eas build --profile development --platform ios
eas build --profile development --platform android
# or local
npx expo run:ios
npx expo run:android

Expo Go vs Dev Client

Feature Expo Go Dev Client
Setup From the App Store Your own build
Native module Only Expo SDK All custom modules
Config plugin Limited Full support
Bundle ID host.exp.Exponent Your own ID
Splash/icon Generic Your own
EAS Update
Push notification Limited Full support
Production-like No Yes

In modern Expo the default recommendation is Dev Client. Expo Go is for quick prototyping only.

Start the Dev Server

npx expo start --dev-client
# or
npx expo start
# → the "dev client" option appears in the QR menu

Once the Dev Client app opens:

  • Show the server URL (LAN/Tunnel)
  • Scan the QR or enter the URL manually
  • The bundle loads

Dev Launcher

With the Dev Client's Switch to another bundle:

  • Connect to a different dev server (collab)
  • Preview an EAS Update branch
  • Preview the production bundle (rare)

Dev Menu

Trigger:

  • iOS sim: Cmd+D or Cmd+Ctrl+Z
  • Android emulator: Cmd+M / Ctrl+M
  • Device: shake

Read the full file on GitHub · 199 lines

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. yesterday First seen · 199 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 968ad0f2f3bd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

expo-dev-client is a skill published in the GitHub repository fatihkan/badi (7 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,330 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 2026-09-06.

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