expo-development

expo-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from monkilabs/opencastle. It costs 69 tokens per session (523 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A development toolkit for Expo and React Native mobile apps, including app setup, navigation, native-module configuration, builds, and over-the-air JavaScript updates. Expo is a framework and service set for building mobile apps with React Native.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scaffold Expo apps, configure Expo Router, manage native modules through config plugins, set EAS Build profiles, store secrets, publish EAS Updates, and diagnose or roll back updates.
Why use it?
It helps keep native Android and iOS configuration reproducible, match package versions to the Expo SDK, and distinguish JavaScript updates from changes that require a new app build.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for expo-development

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/monkilabs/opencastle/expo.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/monkilabs/opencastle/expo)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/monkilabs/opencastle/expo"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/monkilabs/opencastle/expo.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 523 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 $0.00069 $0.00523
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00262
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00105
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00052

Measured 5d ago against content hash 9bd50a625c09, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

expo-development 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (config.ts), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

src/orchestrator/plugins/expo/SKILL.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

Expo Development

Continuous Native Generation

  • Never eject, never edit ios/ or android/npx expo prebuild regenerates both from app.json / app.config.ts, so hand edits vanish. Gitignore both directories. npx expo prebuild --clean when native state is suspect.
  • Native config changes go through config plugins (app.plugin.js, registered in expo.plugins) applied at prebuild time. npx create-expo-module scaffolds a Swift + Kotlin module.
  • Install with npx expo install, not npm install, so versions resolve against the SDK. npx expo install --fix repairs an SDK version mismatch.

EAS Build / Update

  • eas.json profiles: development = developmentClient: true + distribution: internal; preview = distribution: internal + channel; production = channel + autoIncrement: true.
  • Set runtimeVersion: { policy: "fingerprint" } in app.json. eas update --channel production ships JS only — a runtimeVersion mismatch forces a new binary build, and native changes can never go OTA.
  • Rollback: eas update:republish --group <previous-group-id>. Diagnose failures via eas build:list then eas build:view <id>.
  • Secrets belong in EAS Secrets (eas secret:create), never app.json; device-side storage via expo-secure-store.
  • iOS signing failures: eas credentials. CI/CD lives in .eas/workflows/.

Expo Router

Files under app/ are routes; a _layout.tsx per directory supplies <Stack> / <Tabs> / <Drawer>. Parenthesized directories are groups and do not appear in the URL — app/(auth)/login.tsx serves /login. Read dynamic segments with useLocalSearchParams(). Deep links require scheme in app.json; myapp://user/123 then resolves to app/user/[id].tsx.

Docs: https://docs.expo.dev/

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 5d ago First seen · 27 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 9bd50a625c09

Subscribe to this mod's changes

expo-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository monkilabs/opencastle (61 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 523 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 2026-08-30.

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