react-view-transitions

react-view-transitions is a skill for Codex from PracticalSwan/agent-skills. It costs 125 tokens per session (3,852 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to adding animated transitions between React views and interface states with the browser's native View Transition API. It covers route changes, shared elements, loading reveals, and elements entering or leaving the screen.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding page transitions, route-change animations, shared-element effects, Suspense loading reveals, or enter-and-exit animations in a React app.
Why use it?
It helps connect related interface states with animations while allowing browsers that do not support the API to skip them safely.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: reads ~/.codex or $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it when adding page transitions, route-change animations, shared-element effects, Suspense loading reveals, or enter-and-exit animations in a React app.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/practicalswan/agent-skills/react-view-transitions
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 125 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,852 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

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  • high Prompt Injection · line 333
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
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How audits are shown
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 $0.00125 $0.03852
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.01926
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00770
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00385

Measured today against content hash f096ea290a55, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

react-view-transitions 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 today.

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.

react-view-transitions/SKILL.md · 381 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 381 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

React View Transitions

Animate between UI states using the browser's native document.startViewTransition. Declare what with <ViewTransition>, trigger when with startTransition / useDeferredValue / Suspense, control how with CSS classes. Unsupported browsers skip animations gracefully.

When to Animate

Every <ViewTransition> should communicate a spatial relationship or continuity. If you can't articulate what it communicates, don't add it.

Implement all applicable patterns from this list, in this order:

Priority Pattern What it communicates
1 Shared element (name) "Same thing — going deeper"
2 Suspense reveal "Data loaded"
3 List identity (per-item key) "Same items, new arrangement"
4 State change (enter/exit) "Something appeared/disappeared"
5 Route change (page-level) "Going to a new place"

This is an implementation order, not a "pick one" list. Implement every pattern that fits the app. Only skip a pattern if the app has no use case for it.

Choosing Animation Style

Context Animation Why
Hierarchical navigation (list → detail) Type-keyed nav-forward / nav-back Communicates spatial depth
Lateral navigation (tab-to-tab) Bare <ViewTransition> (fade) or default="none" No depth to communicate
Suspense reveal enter/exit string props Content arriving
Revalidation / background refresh default="none" Silent — no animation needed

Reserve directional slides for hierarchical navigation (list → detail) and ordered sequences (prev/next photo, carousel, paginated results). For ordered sequences, the direction communicates position: "next" slides from right, "previous" from left. Lateral/unordered navigation (tab-to-tab) should not use directional slides — it falsely implies spatial depth.


Availability

  • Next.js: Do not install react@canary — the App Router already bundles React canary internally. ViewTransition works out of the box. npm ls react may show a stable-looking version; this is expected.
  • Without Next.js: Install react@canary react-dom@canary (ViewTransition is not in stable React).
  • Browser support: Chromium 125+ (React needs the v2 object form of startViewTransition), Firefox 144+, Safari 18.2+. Graceful degradation on unsupported browsers.

Read the full file on GitHub · 381 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 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. today Changed · +2 lines f096ea290a55
  2. yesterday Changed 3cbe0b06bb5a
  3. 4d ago First seen · 379 lines · 125 tokens per session scan A a7ca6fee8b60

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react-view-transitions is a skill published in the GitHub repository PracticalSwan/agent-skills (13 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 125 tokens to every session and 3,852 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-09-03.

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