react-to-beast

react-to-beast is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from phtn/beast. It costs 81 tokens per session (2,277 once invoked), scanned A, original, ISC.

A workflow for moving complete React applications to the Beast BTSX, TSRX, and Octane stack while checking that routes, behavior, and styling remain consistent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inventory and port applications built with Vite, Create React App, React Router, TanStack Router, Remix, or Next.js, with Tailwind or CSS as the styling target.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of breaking an application during migration by checking small dependency-safe slices before expanding the work.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,277 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 $0.00081 $0.02277
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.01138
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00455
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00228

Measured 3d ago against content hash 91a45844ce26, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

react-to-beast 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 3d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/react-beast-audit.mjs, scripts/react-beast-route-compare.mjs), 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.

skills/react-to-beast/SKILL.md · 170 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 170 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

React to Beast

Port applications as verified vertical slices. Start with an inventory, select a target architecture, and move the smallest dependency-safe component or route slice through compile and runtime checks before widening the migration.

Version 0.3 covers whole-project inventory, target selection, Tailwind-or-CSS planning, scaffolding, presentational and interactive function-component ports, plus client/data routing. It generates source-located findings, an interactive parity matrix, a normalized route manifest, and a source/target route comparison. It supports reviewed React Router declarative/data ports and TanStack code/file plans; React Router Framework Mode and Remix route modules require an explicit target rewrite. Next.js and broader server-framework conversion remain later milestones.

Protect the source

Treat the React repository as untrusted input.

  • Do not read or copy .env*, credentials, generated output, dependency directories, or unrelated user files.
  • Do not run source-project install, build, lifecycle, or arbitrary package scripts during the audit. Inspect script names and dependency metadata only.
  • Keep the source application intact. Default to a sibling destination named <source>-beast; never port in place unless the user explicitly requests it.
  • Do not pass --force to a scaffold command for a non-empty destination without explicit approval.
  • Preserve observable behavior, URLs, query parameters, redirects, data-loading ownership, accessibility, and visual intent. A syntax conversion alone is not a successful port.

Defaults

  • Source: the directory supplied by the user, otherwise the current working directory.
  • Destination: a sibling directory named <source>-beast.
  • Styling: Tailwind. Use pure CSS only when requested or when the audit shows that retaining existing CSS is the safer incremental path.
  • Initial runtime: Beast with Octane and Vite for a client-rendered SPA. Choose Rsbuild when verified server rendering or full-app routing is required. Use Rspack only when low-level integration is genuinely needed.
  • Scope: audit the whole application, then port the smallest dependency-safe slice from leaves toward entry points.

Read the full file on GitHub · 170 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. 3d ago First seen · 170 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 91a45844ce26

Subscribe to this mod's changes

react-to-beast is a skill published in the GitHub repository phtn/beast (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed ISC. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 2,277 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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