# improve-react

Audits an entire React codebase with React Doctor and drafts self-contained implementation plans for other agents. Operates in read-only mode.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 2500 installs · ★ 15049
- Author: millionco
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/millionco/react-doctor/tree/HEAD/skills/improve-react/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/improve-react

## What it does

The skill runs `npx react-doctor@latest` in read-only mode to produce a structured JSON report. Instead of reporting raw scanner output directly, it evaluates component context, prioritizing hot rendering paths over cold administration screens across five audit categories.

It never mutates existing source files or installs dependencies. All instructions are saved as standalone specifications in `plans/` or `react-plans/`. Each file contains exact paths, code excerpts, and canonical fix recipes, allowing another agent or a developer to implement the changes without prior context.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add millionco/react-doctor --skill improve-react -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/improve-react/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/improve-react/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add millionco/react-doctor --skill improve-react -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/improve-react/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add millionco/react-doctor --skill improve-react -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/improve-react/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install millionco/react-doctor improve-react
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/improve-react/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add millionco/react-doctor --skill improve-react -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/millionco/react-doctor --path skills/improve-react
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/improve-react/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add millionco/react-doctor --skill improve-react -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/millionco/react-doctor/tree/HEAD/skills/improve-react/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- audit an entire React codebase across five structural categories
- pinpoint high-impact performance bottlenecks on critical render paths
- generate self-contained implementation specs for execution agents
- filter out noise from automated linting and static analysis rules

## Example prompts
- Audit this React codebase and write implementation plans
- Make this React app faster and prepare refactoring roadmaps
- Run a deep audit on our React components and save plans to plans/

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: improve-react
description: Survey a whole React codebase as a senior React engineer, using React Doctor's scan as evidence, then produce a prioritized audit and self-contained implementation plans for other agents (or cheaper models) to execute. Read-only on source code — it plans improvements, it does not apply them. Use when the user asks to "improve the React code", "audit this codebase", "make this app faster / more robust", or wants a roadmap of fixes rather than a review of a single diff. For a regression check or a fix-it-now pass, use the `react-doctor` skill instead.
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# Improving React

An advisor skill modeled on the audit-then-plan workflow: use the capable model for the part where judgment compounds — reading React Doctor's findings, deciding which actually matter, and writing the spec — and hand execution to any agent, including cheaper models.

It does ONE thing: survey a React codebase, then produce prioritized findings and implementation plans. It is **not** the `react-doctor` skill:

- `react-doctor` runs the scanner, checks the score didn't regress, and (via `/doctor`) fixes the working tree directly.
- `improve-react` is read-only. It leans on React Doctor's scan as machine-verified evidence, adds the leverage judgment a static tool can't, and writes plans a cheaper agent executes later. It never edits source.

The rule catalog with the five audit categories lives in [AUDIT.md](AUDIT.md). The plan format lives in [PLAN-TEMPLATE.md](PLAN-TEMPLATE.md). Load them when you audit and when you write plans.

## Operating Posture

You are a senior React engineer with a brutal eye for what ships to users. React Doctor already lists what is _technically_ wrong; your job is to find the work with the highest leverage — the unstable context value that re-renders the whole tree, the missing effect dependency that ships a stale-closure bug, the `dangerouslySetInnerHTML` on user input — and turn each into a plan so precise that a model with zero context and no React instinct can execute it without a judgment call of its own.

The bar comes from React Doctor's rules and their canonical fix recipes. The workflow — recon, parallel audit, vetting, self-contained plans — is adapted from senior-advisor codebase auditing.

## Hard Rules

1. **Never modify source code.** The only files you create or edit live under `plans/` (or `react-plans/` if `plans/` already exists for something else). If asked to "just fix it", decline and point to `improve-react execute <plan>`, to running the plan with any agent, or to the `react-doctor` skill's `/doctor` triage flow.
2. **No mutating operations.** No `--fix`, no code edits, no commits, no formatters, no dependency installs. React Doctor is run read-only, for evidence only.
3. **Plans must be fully self-contained.** The executor has zero context from this conversation and no React taste. Never write "memoize it like we discussed" — inline the exact wrapper, the exact dependency array, the exact file path and code excerpt, and the exact fix pulled from the canonical per-rule prompt (see below).
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