react

A JavaScript library for building web interfaces from reusable pieces called components. It includes tools for component state, shared data, side effects, loading states, and controlling unnecessary re-renders.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build web pages and applications, manage changing interface data, connect components to external systems, show loading content, and organize shared state.
Why use it?
It breaks complex interfaces into smaller pieces that are easier to reason about, reuse, and update as application data changes.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,431 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin fork From a forked repository.
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 $0.00029 $0.01431
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00715
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00286
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00143

Measured 2d ago against content hash 638fd94bbf71, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

react 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.

skills/react/SKILL.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

React

The skill is based on React, generated at 2026-01-31.

React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It lets you compose complex UIs from small and isolated pieces of code called "components". React uses a declarative paradigm that makes it easier to reason about your application and aims to be both efficient and flexible.

Core References

Topic Description Reference
useState Hook for managing component state with direct updates core-usestate
useEffect Hook for synchronizing components with external systems core-useeffect
useContext Hook for reading and subscribing to context core-usecontext
useRef Hook for referencing values that don't trigger re-renders core-useref
useReducer Hook for managing complex state with a reducer function core-usereducer
Suspense Component for displaying fallback UI while content is loading core-suspense
memo Higher-order component for memoizing component renders core-memo
createContext API for creating context objects core-createcontext
Fragment Component for grouping elements without wrapper nodes core-fragment
StrictMode Component for enabling additional development checks core-strictmode

Features

Performance Optimization

Topic Description Reference
useMemo Hook for caching expensive calculations features-usememo
useCallback Hook for caching function definitions features-usecallback
lazy API for code splitting and lazy loading components features-lazy
useTransition Hook for non-blocking state updates features-usetransition
useDeferredValue Hook for deferring non-critical UI updates features-usedeferredvalue
useLayoutEffect Hook that fires synchronously before browser repaint features-uselayouteffect
startTransition API for marking non-blocking state updates features-starttransition

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 lines

Files

What ships with it

37 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 · 104 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 638fd94bbf71

Subscribe to this mod's changes

react is a skill published in the GitHub repository hairyf/skills (25 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,431 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It comes from a forked repository.

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