patching-libraries SKILL.md skillA
patching-libraries from anilburcu/claude-code-react-native is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add anilburcu/claude-code-react-native/patching-libraries@git:20260911.98ac3cbPins git:20260911.98ac3cb in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- anilburcu/claude-code-react-native
- Path
plugins/rn/skills/patching-libraries/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260911.98ac3cb, committed Sep 11, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 28, 2026
- Size
- 3,719 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Patching, forking or replacing broken third-party libraries. Use when a dependency has a bug with no released fix, for patch-package versus fork decisions, patches breaking after an upgrade, or an abandoned library.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Patching third-party libraries without regret ## The decision ladder Work down, stop at the first rung that holds: 1. **A released fix exists**: upgrade. Check the library's releases and the issue matching your exact error before doing anything clever. 2. **The fix is small and upstream is alive**: patch locally AND open the upstream PR (or link the existing one). The patch is a bridge, not a home. 3. **The fix is small and upstream is dead**: patch locally and put the library on the replacement list. A patched corpse is still a corpse. 4. **The library is dead and load-bearing**: replace it with the maintained alternative. The new-architecture skill lists the standard swaps. 5. **No alternative exists and the code is small**: vendor it (copy the source into the repo, keep its license header, own it openly). Honest ownership beats a fork nobody watches. 6. **Fork** only when you truly need a living divergent copy. A fork is a maintenance subscription with no unsubscribe button: every upstream fix, security patch and New Architecture change becomes your homework. ## Patch mechanics …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add anilburcu/claude-code-react-native/patching-libraries@sha256:80ebae7574095084The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260911.98ac3cb, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_intdqjq4mlvi2mx3)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 28, 2026 and Sep 11, 2026, about one every 45 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260911.98ac3cb latest | 2026-09-11 | 98ac3cb | 3,719 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260728.436a435 | 2026-07-28 | 436a435 | 3,789 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3719 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
anilburcu/claude-code-react-native · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-11 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_intdqjq4mlvi2mx3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=anilburcu/claude-code-react-native/patching-libraries GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/80ebae7574095084b5736465bb821d1d5a4f7d50d92d57de4e69e9ddc9b420b8
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