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Expo Skills: the Expo team's official skills for mobile apps

The Expo team's own skill pack for coding agents: it teaches Claude Code, Codex or Cursor how to structure an Expo app, build native-feeling screens and animations, upgrade SDKs and, if you use Expo's paid services, ship builds and over-the-air updates.

In short: The Expo team's own skill pack for coding agents: it teaches Claude Code, Codex or Cursor how to structure an Expo app, build native-feeling screens and animations, upgrade SDKs and, if you use Expo's paid services, ship builds and over-the-air updates. It is a free skill for people who use Claude Code, Codex or Cursor and want help with coding agent skills.

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Agent / toolAccess / costLink
Claude CodePaid Claude plan or APIclaude.com/claude-code
CodexChatGPT plan or APIopenai.com/codex
CursorFree tier + paidcursor.com
GitHub repoOpen source · ★ 3.8kexpo/skills
Expo Skills: the Expo team's official skills for mobile apps

Image: from the GitHub README, shown with credit.

Try it in 60 seconds

npx skills@latest add expo/skills --skill '*'
claude plugin install expo@claude-plugins-official
codex plugin add expo@openai-curated

Install command copied from the project README. Check the README for the latest version.

What it does

The Expo team's own skill pack for coding agents: it teaches Claude Code, Codex or Cursor how to structure an Expo app, build native-feeling screens and animations, upgrade SDKs and, if you use Expo's paid services, ship builds and over-the-air updates.

Expo Skills is a set of about two dozen SKILL.md files written by the people who build Expo. An overview skill picks the right one for your request. The free framework skills cover project layout, Expo Router…

Short excerpt from the README of expo/skills. Read the full README on GitHub.

Inside the repo

How It WorksInstallationSkills CLIClaude Code PluginCodex PluginUpdatingTry ItSkills IncludedStart HereFramework (open source)Services & paid distributionExperimental

A prompt to try

Upgrade this app to the latest Expo SDK, fix the dependency conflicts, and tell me what changed.

From the original post, credited below.

Step by step

  1. Open the GitHub repo and skim the list of skills (framework, paid services, experimental).
  2. In Claude Code run claude plugin install expo@claude-plugins-official; in Codex run codex plugin add expo@openai-curated.
  3. For Cursor and other agents, run npx skills@latest add expo/skills --skill '*' from your project root.
  4. Restart the agent session and ask an Expo question; the expo-overview skill routes it to the right one.

Watch out for

Some skills (app store submission, hosting, OTA updates, remote simulators) use paid EAS services, so check the plan note before you let the agent run them. The plugin installs also wire up the Expo MCP server. The skills follow Expo's docs and CLI, which stay the source of truth.

Docs, demos & materials

Common questions

What does Expo Skills do?

The Expo team's own skill pack for coding agents: it teaches Claude Code, Codex or Cursor how to structure an Expo app, build native-feeling screens and animations, upgrade SDKs and, if you use Expo's paid services, ship builds and over-the-air updates.

Which AI agents can use Expo Skills?

It works with Claude Code, Codex and Cursor. The code is on GitHub at expo/skills.

Is Expo Skills free?

Free & open source (MIT). The framework skills cost nothing; the EAS skills drive Expo Application Services, which have free tiers and paid plans, and each of those skills starts with a note on costs.

How do I install Expo Skills?

Run the install command from the README: “npx skills@latest add expo/skills --skill '*'”. Check the README on GitHub for the latest version, then follow the steps on this page.

Is Expo Skills safe to install?

We read 131 instruction and code files in the repo and found no red flags. That is not a guarantee, so review anything that runs commands on your machine.

Sources & credit

All credit to the original authors. We rewrite in our own words and link back. Something wrong? Report it.

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