react-effects-audit

A review skill for React and Next.js components that finds unnecessary or unsafe useEffect code. useEffect is React's mechanism for synchronising a component with outside systems, but it is often used for work that can happen directly during rendering or in event handlers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit JavaScript or TypeScript components, report effect anti-patterns with severity and locations, and recommend fixes without applying them automatically.
Why use it?
It identifies common effect-related design problems and explains safer alternatives. It can also check whether the component's broader architecture fits React or Next.js conventions.

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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/fusengine/agents/react-effects-audit
Any agent
npx skills add fusengine/agents --skill react-effects-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fusengine/agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,246 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 $0.00036 $0.01246
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00623
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00249
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00125

Measured 2d ago against content hash cffffaa9daba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

react-effects-audit 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 2d 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.

plugins/ai-pilot/skills/react-effects-audit/SKILL.md · 123 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 123 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

When the target is a Next.js or React project, it cross-references the matching SOLID skill (solid-nextjs or solid-react) to also catch architecture-level violations like data-fetching Effects that should be Server Components or TanStack Query instead. It never auto-fixes without showing the finding first.

Target: $ARGUMENTS

React Effects Audit

Overview

Scan React codebases to detect unnecessary useEffect usage based on official React documentation ("You Might Not Need an Effect"). Reports anti-patterns with severity, location, and recommended fixes.


Agent Workflow (MANDATORY)

PHASE 1: Scan target files (Glob *.tsx, *.jsx, *.ts, *.js)
PHASE 2: Detect anti-patterns (Grep detection rules)
PHASE 3: Analyze context (Read flagged files)
PHASE 4: Generate report with fixes

Anti-Pattern Summary

# Anti-Pattern Severity Detection
1 Derived state in Effect WARNING useEffect + setState from other state/props
2 Expensive calculation in Effect WARNING useEffect + setState with filter/map/reduce
3 State reset via Effect WARNING useEffect resets state when prop changes
4 Event logic in Effect CRITICAL User interaction logic inside useEffect
5 Parent notification via Effect WARNING useEffect calls parent onChange/onUpdate
6 Effect chains CRITICAL Multiple useEffect triggering each other
7 Missing cleanup in fetch CRITICAL useEffect fetch without cleanup/AbortController
8 Manual store subscription WARNING addEventListener/subscribe in useEffect
9 App init in Effect INFO One-time init logic in useEffect(fn, [])

Read the full file on GitHub · 123 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. 2d ago First seen · 123 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A cffffaa9daba

Subscribe to this mod's changes

react-effects-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository fusengine/agents (25 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,246 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.