upgrading-react-native

Upgrades React Native apps to newer versions by applying rn-diff-purge template diffs, updating package.json dependencies, migrating native iOS and Android configuration, resolving CocoaPods and Gradle changes, and handling breaking API updates. Use when upgrading React Native, bumping RN version, updating from RN 0.x to 0.y, or migrating Expo SDK alongside a React Native upgrade.

Quality

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Low

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Content

100%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The SKILL.md body is a well-organized overview: concise, actionable quick-start commands, a clearly sequenced workflow with an explicit validation checkpoint, and clean one-level-deep references that all exist on disk. It models progressive disclosure effectively.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is lean and assumes competence: it skips explaining what React Native is and uses compact tables plus a focused quick-start block, with every section earning its place.	3 / 3
Actionability	Provides fully executable, copy-paste commands such as 'npm view react-native dist-tags.latest', the curl diff fetch, 'pod install', and the platform build commands rather than abstract direction.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	The numbered Typical Upgrade Sequence pairs with a quick-start block whose step 4 explicitly validates ('both platforms must build successfully') and surfaces failures via the curl error branch.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	A clear overview points to seven one-level-deep reference files via two well-signaled navigation tables, and all referenced paths resolve to real files in ./references/.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Description

100%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong, third-person description that names concrete capabilities and provides explicit, natural-language triggers for when to invoke the skill. It cleanly satisfies the what-and-when requirement with no fluff.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete actions: 'applying rn-diff-purge template diffs, updating package.json dependencies, migrating native iOS and Android configuration, resolving CocoaPods and Gradle changes, and handling breaking API updates', matching the multi-action anchor.	3 / 3
Completeness	Clearly answers both what it does and when to use it via the explicit 'Use when...' clause with concrete triggers.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Natural user phrasing is well covered: 'upgrading React Native, bumping RN version, updating from RN 0.x to 0.y, or migrating Expo SDK', terms a user would actually say.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The React Native upgrade niche is specific with distinct triggers unlikely to conflict with other skills.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Validation

93%

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Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
metadata_version	'metadata.version' is missing	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: callstackincubator/agent-skills
Path: skills/upgrading-react-native/SKILL.md
Commit: f6b87e3

Reviewed: about 14 hours ago

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