Install Expo Skills so Cursor and Claude Code follow official Expo patterns

UpdatedSeptember 17, 2026

Expo Skills are official, structured instruction files that teach AI agents how to build, deploy, and debug Expo and React Native apps with known-good patterns. Install them once in Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex, and the agent routes Expo work through expo-* and eas-* skills instead of inventing folder layouts, upgrade steps, or store pipelines from chat memory.

That is the difference between “the model has seen Expo in training” and “the agent loads Expo’s own skill catalog before it writes code.” This post is the install-and-use gate for that catalog. It is not the Expo MCP connector (live EAS and store access) and not Cursor Projects (fleet coordination on an owned repo). Skills teach conventions. MCP talks to services. Projects delegate work. You usually want Skills first.

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