Expo Dev Client

About this skill

Expo Dev Client is a skill in sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills (47k stars). Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, with 1 other file in the folder, and copies of it appear in 1 other owners' repositories. Licence: MIT.

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Build the development client in the cloud
2. 2Automatically submit to App Store Connect
3. 3Send you an email when the build is ready in TestFlight

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ec02547. 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

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • eas
  • xcrun
  • adb
  • npx

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

• Network

  Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

  • docs.expo.dev

  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

Expo Dev Client loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 12 tokens; SKILL.md has 382 words of instructions outside code blocks.

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

~12

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

~1.1k

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 sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills at commit ec02547, republished under its MIT licence (© sickn33). 382 words, ~1,104 tokens.

name

expo-dev-client

description

Build Expo app for development

risk

critical

source

https://github.com/expo/skills/tree/main/plugins/expo/skills/expo-dev-client

source_repo

expo/skills

source_type

official

date_added

2026-07-01

license

MIT

license_source

https://github.com/expo/skills/blob/main/LICENSE

{
  "cli": {
    "version": ">= 16.0.1",
    "appVersionSource": "remote"
  },
  "build": {
    "production": {
      "autoIncrement": true
    },
    "development": {
      "autoIncrement": true,
      "developmentClient": true
    }
  },
  "submit": {
    "production": {},
    "development": {}
  }
}

eas build -p ios --profile development --submit

# iOS (requires Xcode)
## When to Use

Use this skill when you need build Expo app for development.

eas build -p ios --profile development --local

# Android
eas build -p android --profile development --local

# Find the .app in the .tar.gz output
tar -xzf build-*.tar.gz
xcrun simctl install booted ./path/to/App.app

# Use Xcode Devices window or ideviceinstaller
ideviceinstaller -i build.ipa

adb install build.apk

# iOS only
eas build -p ios --profile development

# Android only
eas build -p android --profile development

# Both platforms
eas build --profile development

# List recent builds
eas build:list

# View build details
eas build:view

# Start Metro bundler
npx expo start --dev-client

# Scan QR code with dev client or enter URL manually

eas credentials

eas build -p ios --profile development --clear-cache

eas --version
eas update

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Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in skills/expo-dev-client of sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills.

• SKILL.md
• agents/openai.yaml

Open the folder on GitHubat commit ec02547

Used in 1 other repository

We found 9 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

• lingxling/awesome-skills-cnantigravity-awesome-skills/skills/expo-dev-clientantigravity-awesome-skills/plugins/agentic-awesome-skills/skills/expo-dev-client+3 more