react-native-unistyles-v3 — Claude Code skill: RN styling guide

What react-native-unistyles-v3 does

The skill kicks in when your code or prompt mentions unistyles, StyleSheet.create, withUnistyles, useUnistyles, ScopedTheme, UnistylesRuntime, breakpoints or adaptive themes. The agent reads your code first, works out what you want — first-time setup, adding a theme, responsive layout, fixing a bug — then applies v3 patterns and checks the skill's reference files for detail.

What's inside: a quick reference for the three StyleSheet.create overloads, one-time StyleSheet.configure, variants with compoundVariants, and the withUnistyles wrapper for props such as color and trackColor. A separate rules section names the usual failure points. Spreading styles as {...styles.x} breaks the C++ proxy binding. Re-exporting StyleSheet from a barrel file goes undetected by the plugin. And with no build-time integration — Babel plugin, Metro integration or RepackUnistylePlugin — styles stop reacting to theme changes. Call useVariants before touching variant styles, and always pass an object: useVariants(undefined) throws on native.

Your project needs React Native 0.81+ with the New Architecture, React 19+ and a pinned react-native-nitro-modules. On Expo, SDK 54+ plus a dev client or prebuild — Expo Go won't work here. The skill can edit files and run npx, so the agent gets write access to your repo.