Gestures

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Implementing tap
• Any touch interaction
• : gesture handler
• GestureDetector

Example prompts

• “gesture handler”
• “GestureDetector”
• “tap gesture”
• “/gestures”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9854ae3. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are typescript).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

  • docs.swmansion.com

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Gestures loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 146 tokens; SKILL.md has 520 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~146

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.7k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from kingstinct/react-native-healthkit at commit 9854ae3, republished under its MIT licence (© kingstinct). 520 words, ~1,675 tokens.

name

gestures

description

Software Mansion's best practices for gestures in React Native apps using React Native Gesture Handler. Use when implementing tap, pan, pinch, rotation, swipe, long press, fling, hover, drag, or any touch interaction. Trigger on: 'gesture handler', 'GestureDetector', 'tap gesture', 'pan gesture', 'pinch gesture', 'rotation gesture', 'long press', 'fling', 'hover gesture', 'swipe', 'pinch to zoom', 'drag', 'touch handling', 'Pressable', 'RectButton', 'Swipeable', 'DrawerLayout', 'VirtualGestureDetector', or any request to handle user touch input in a React Native app.

Check package.json - "react-native-gesture-handler" version
   │
   ├── user asks to migrate v2 -> v3
   │   → webfetch https://docs.swmansion.com/react-native-gesture-handler/docs/guides/upgrading-to-3
   ├── starts with "2." → use builder API (Gesture.Pan(), Gesture.Simultaneous(), useMemo)
   └── starts with "3." → use hook API (usePanGesture(), useSimultaneousGestures())

// app/_layout.tsx
import { Stack } from 'expo-router';
import { GestureHandlerRootView } from 'react-native-gesture-handler';

export default function RootLayout() {
  return (
    <GestureHandlerRootView>
      <Stack />
    </GestureHandlerRootView>
  );
}

const pan = useMemo(() => Gesture.Pan().onBegin(...).onUpdate(...).onEnd(...), []);

import { scheduleOnRN } from 'react-native-worklets';

// WRONG -- crashes: calling JS function directly from UI thread
const gesture = useMemo(() =>
  Gesture.Pan().onUpdate((e) => {
    handleTouch(e.absoluteX, e.absoluteY); // non-worklet function
  }),
[]);

// CORRECT -- schedules JS function on RN thread
const gesture = useMemo(() =>
  Gesture.Pan().onUpdate((e) => {
    scheduleOnRN(handleTouch, e.absoluteX, e.absoluteY);
  }),
[]);

import { ScrollView, FlatList, RectButton } from 'react-native-gesture-handler';

© kingstinct, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 6 other files in .agents/skills/react-native-best-practices/references/gestures of kingstinct/react-native-healthkit.

• SKILL.md
• continuous-gestures.md
• gesture-composition.md
• gestures.md
• swipeable-and-drawer.md
• tap-handling.md
• testing.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9854ae3

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in kingstinct/react-native-healthkit, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

• software-mansion-labs/skillsskills/react-native-best-practices/references/gestures