upgrading-expo

upgrading-expo is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zai-org/Synapse. It costs 16 tokens per session (1,298 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

Guidelines for upgrading Expo, a framework for building apps with React Native, between SDK versions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to update Expo and related packages, migrate affected APIs, run diagnostics, and handle preview releases.
Why use it?
They identify dependency changes, migration steps, diagnostics, and known breaking changes during an upgrade.

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/zai-org/synapse/upgrading-expo
Any agent
npx skills add zai-org/Synapse --skill upgrading-expo
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zai-org/Synapse

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for upgrading-expo

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zai-org/synapse/upgrading-expo"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zai-org/synapse/upgrading-expo.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,298 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00016 $0.01298
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00649
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00260
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00130

Measured 4d ago against content hash 373efb08acd4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

upgrading-expo 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 4d 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.

rm -rf node_modules .expo
Origin

Copies of this mod

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.agents/skills/upgrading-expo/SKILL.md · 134 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 134 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

References

  • ./references/new-architecture.md -- SDK +53: New Architecture migration guide
  • ./references/react-19.md -- SDK +54: React 19 changes (useContext → use, Context.Provider → Context, forwardRef removal)
  • ./references/react-compiler.md -- SDK +54: React Compiler setup and migration guide
  • ./references/native-tabs.md -- SDK +55: Native tabs changes (Icon/Label/Badge now accessed via NativeTabs.Trigger.*)
  • ./references/expo-av-to-audio.md -- Migrate audio playback and recording from expo-av to expo-audio
  • ./references/expo-av-to-video.md -- Migrate video playback from expo-av to expo-video

Beta/Preview Releases

Beta versions use .preview suffix (e.g., 55.0.0-preview.2), published under @next tag.

Check if latest is beta: https://exp.host/--/api/v2/versions (look for -preview in expoVersion)

npx expo install expo@next --fix  # install beta

Step-by-Step Upgrade Process

  1. Upgrade Expo and dependencies
npx expo install expo@latest
npx expo install --fix
  1. Run diagnostics: npx expo-doctor

  2. Clear caches and reinstall

npx expo export -p ios --clear
rm -rf node_modules .expo
watchman watch-del-all

Breaking Changes Checklist

  • Check for removed APIs in release notes
  • Update import paths for moved modules
  • Review native module changes requiring prebuild
  • Test all camera, audio, and video features
  • Verify navigation still works correctly

Prebuild for Native Changes

First check if ios/ and android/ directories exist in the project. If neither directory exists, the project uses Continuous Native Generation (CNG) and native projects are regenerated at build time — skip this section and "Clear caches for bare workflow" entirely.

If upgrading requires native changes:

npx expo prebuild --clean

This regenerates the ios and android directories. Ensure the project is not a bare workflow app before running this command.

Clear caches for bare workflow

These steps only apply when ios/ and/or android/ directories exist in the project:

Read the full file on GitHub · 134 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 4d ago First seen · 134 lines · 16 tokens per session scan C 373efb08acd4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

upgrading-expo is a skill published in the GitHub repository zai-org/Synapse (454 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 1,298 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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