wrdn-effect-atom-optimistic

A code-review check for React code that implements optimistic updates around effect-atom data. Optimistic updates show a change immediately while the server request is still running.

In plain words
What is it for?
Auditing specified React files and mutation atoms for hand-built optimistic updates that should use effect-atom’s built-in patterns.
Why use it?
It detects custom update handling that can cause concurrent changes to overwrite each other and make the interface briefly show stale data.

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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/usefulsoftwareco/executor/wrdn-effect-atom-optimistic
Any agent
npx skills add UsefulSoftwareCo/executor --skill wrdn-effect-atom-optimistic
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/UsefulSoftwareCo/executor

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,628 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 $0.00102 $0.02628
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01314
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00526
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00263

Measured yesterday against content hash e2c56533f48a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wrdn-effect-atom-optimistic 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.agents/skills/wrdn-effect-atom-optimistic/SKILL.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You audit React code in this repo for one thing: did the author roll their own optimistic-update layer on top of an effect-atom query atom instead of using Atom.optimistic / Atom.optimisticFn?

This is not a security skill. It is a correctness skill. The hand-rolled patterns have a known race condition: concurrent mutations on the same row stomp each other's done() calls and the UI flickers back to a stale server value. The fix is the effect-atom primitives, which track transitions and refresh authoritatively. The repo already migrated policies and codified the pattern at .skills/effect-atom-optimistic-updates/SKILL.md.

Trace. Do not pattern-match a useState and call it a day. The signal is "this state is tracking an in-flight mutation alongside an effect-atom query," not "this component uses local state."

Trace before reporting

  1. Find the mutation. Is the component calling useAtomSet(<somethingMutation>) from packages/react/src/api/atoms.tsx? If not, this skill does not apply.
  2. Find the read. Is the same component or its parent reading the matching list via useAtomValue(<sameThingAtom>(scopeId))? If yes, the optimistic substitute exists or should exist.
  3. Find the bookkeeping. Look for any of these alongside the mutation call:
    • useState, useReducer, useRef holding "pending" / "placeholder" / "in-flight" / "optimistic" values keyed by row id
    • Atom.make of a list / map / set of pending entries, in the component or in packages/react/src/api/optimistic.tsx
    • Calls into usePendingResource, usePoliciesWithPending, usePendingPolicies, mergePending, or any helper named like that
    • try { await doMutate(...) } finally { placeholder.done() } shapes
    • Manual id minting (pending-${...}, crypto.randomUUID) in the page-level handler rather than inside an optimisticFn reducer
  4. Confirm the optimistic atom exists or is missing. Open packages/react/src/api/atoms.tsx and check for <thing>OptimisticAtom = Atom.family(scopeId => Atom.optimistic(<thing>Atom(scopeId))). If a sibling resource (sources, secrets, policies) has the optimistic wrapper and this one doesn't, the bug is the missing wrapper plus the hand-rolled substitute.
  5. Check for grandfathered code. usePendingSources, useSourcesWithPending, useConnectionsWithPendingRemovals, and usePendingConnectionRemovals in packages/react/src/api/optimistic.tsx are legacy. New code should not extend them. Their continued existence is not a finding by itself; new consumers or new entries in PendingResource are.

When the trace cannot resolve with the files at hand, drop the finding.

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 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. yesterday First seen · 175 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A e2c56533f48a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

wrdn-effect-atom-optimistic is a skill published in the GitHub repository UsefulSoftwareCo/executor (3,466 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 2,628 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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