rn-harness-build-local

rn-harness-build-local is a skill for Claude Code from tjdrhs90/rn-launch-harness. It costs 72 tokens per session (2,925 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A local build-and-release route for React Native and Expo apps, where Expo is a toolkit for building mobile apps. It creates Android and iPhone release files on your own machines, hosts updates yourself, and submits the apps to their stores.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create an Android app bundle and iOS app package, publish over-the-air updates from your own setup, and submit releases through Google Play and Apple’s publishing tools.
Why use it?
It provides an option when Expo Application Services (EAS), Expo’s hosted build service, cannot be used or its free project allowance is full. It gives the project local control over building and releasing.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the rn-launch-harness plugin — 17 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create an Android app bundle and iOS app package, publish over-the-air updates from your own setup, and submit releases through Google Play and Apple’s publishing tools.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tjdrhs90/rn-launch-harness/rn-harness-build-local
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add tjdrhs90/rn-launch-harness --skill rn-harness-build-local
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tjdrhs90/rn-launch-harness

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rn-launch-harness, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,925 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00072 $0.02925
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01463
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00585
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00293

Measured 11d ago against content hash 841091dc665b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

rn-harness-build-local scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

> - **Clear the folder first**, leave only the final images: `rm -rf fastlane/screenshots/* && cp <final PNGs> fastlane/screenshots/`
skills/rn-harness-build-local/SKILL.md · 268 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 268 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

rn-harness-build-local — Phase 8 (alt): EAS-free Build & Deploy

Build and ship without EAS. Use this instead of rn-harness-build + the EAS parts of rn-harness-submit when the user cannot use EAS — most commonly because the EAS free plan is full (3-project limit reached) or they simply don't want the dependency.

When to use this instead of EAS

The orchestrator (or the user) picks the build method at the start of Phase 8:

Situation Path
EAS account has a free project slot, wants managed credentials/OTA rn-harness-build (default)
EAS free plan full (3 projects) / declined EAS / wants full local control this skill

EAS free plan allows a limited number of projects per account. Once full, eas init on a new app fails. This path needs no EAS project at all.

Trigger

Called by the orchestrator as Phase 8 when build method = local.

Input

  • Project code (AdMob integration complete)
  • docs/harness/config.md

Prerequisites

  • Android: JDK 17, Android SDK (ANDROID_HOME set), Gradle (bundled via wrapper)
  • iOS: macOS + Xcode + CocoaPods, an Apple Developer account
  • fastlane (brew install fastlane or gem install fastlane) — used for iOS signing + upload
  • No EAS account required

Process

Step 1: Prebuild (generate native projects)

Expo managed projects have no android/ / ios/ folders until prebuilt. Generate them:

# Clean native projects from app.config.ts (idempotent)
npx expo prebuild --clean

This creates android/ and ios/ with the correct bundle id, icons, splash, and plugin config. Re-run after any app.config.ts change.

OTA note: expo-updates in a non-EAS setup needs a self-hosted update endpoint (see Step 6). If OTA is not needed, remove expo-updates from plugins before prebuild to avoid a build-time updates.url requirement.

Step 2: Android Signing Keystore (ASK FIRST)

Same rule as the EAS path — never silently generate a keystore. A local Gradle release build requires a keystore; there is no cloud fallback.

Read the full file on GitHub · 268 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. 11d ago First seen · 268 lines · 72 tokens per session scan C 841091dc665b

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rn-harness-build-local is a skill published in the GitHub repository tjdrhs90/rn-launch-harness (9 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 2,925 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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