expo-development

expo-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from monkilabs/opencastle. It costs 44 tokens per session (513 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to Expo and React Native, tools for building mobile apps with JavaScript or TypeScript. It covers app setup, native configuration, builds, navigation, and over-the-air updates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Scaffolding mobile apps, configuring native modules and navigation, creating EAS build profiles, publishing JavaScript updates, and diagnosing build failures.
Why use it?
It prevents native changes from being lost during regeneration and helps keep mobile build and update settings consistent with the app's runtime.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Scaffolding mobile apps, configuring native modules and navigation, creating EAS build profiles, publishing JavaScript updates, and diagnosing build failures.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/monkilabs/opencastle/expo-development
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 513 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.
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 $0.00044 $0.00513
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00205
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00103
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00051

Measured 11d ago against content hash 8a077bef2af2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 11d 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.

src/orchestrator/plugins/expo/skills/expo-development/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 environment variables with secret visibility (eas env:create --visibility secret; eas secret:create is deprecated), 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/

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. 11d ago Changed · -25 tokens per session 8a077bef2af2
  2. 12d ago First seen · 27 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 9bd50a625c09

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expo-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository monkilabs/opencastle (80 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 513 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-04.

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