diff --git a/packages/react-native/Libraries/Components/TraceUpdateOverlay/TraceUpdateOverlay.js b/packages/react-native/Libraries/Components/TraceUpdateOverlay/TraceUpdateOverlay.js
index abac38b3bee..c4e7627bc60 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/Libraries/Components/TraceUpdateOverlay/TraceUpdateOverlay.js
+++ b/packages/react-native/Libraries/Components/TraceUpdateOverlay/TraceUpdateOverlay.js
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@
  * @format
  */
 
+import type {
+  InstanceFromReactDevTools,
+  ReactDevToolsAgent,
+  ReactDevToolsGlobalHook,
+} from '../../Types/ReactDevToolsTypes';
 import type {Overlay} from './TraceUpdateOverlayNativeComponent';
 
 import UIManager from '../../ReactNative/UIManager';
@@ -20,54 +25,12 @@ import TraceUpdateOverlayNativeComponent, {
 } from './TraceUpdateOverlayNativeComponent';
 import * as React from 'react';
 
-type AgentEvents = {
-  drawTraceUpdates: [Array<{node: TraceNode, color: string}>],
-  disableTraceUpdates: [],
-};
-
-interface Agent {
-  addListener<Event: $Keys<AgentEvents>>(
-    event: Event,
-    listener: (...AgentEvents[Event]) => void,
-  ): void;
-  removeListener(event: $Keys<AgentEvents>, listener: () => void): void;
-}
-
-type PublicInstance = {
-  measure?: (
-    (
-      x: number,
-      y: number,
-      width: number,
-      height: number,
-      left: number,
-      top: number,
-    ) => void,
-  ) => void,
-};
-
-type TraceNode =
-  | PublicInstance
-  | {
-      canonical?:
-        | PublicInstance // TODO: remove this variant when syncing the new version of the renderer from React to React Native.
-        | {
-            publicInstance?: PublicInstance,
-          },
-    };
-
-type ReactDevToolsGlobalHook = {
-  on: (eventName: string, (agent: Agent) => void) => void,
-  off: (eventName: string, (agent: Agent) => void) => void,
-  reactDevtoolsAgent: Agent,
-};
-
 const {useEffect, useRef, useState} = React;
 const hook: ReactDevToolsGlobalHook = window.__REACT_DEVTOOLS_GLOBAL_HOOK__;
 const isNativeComponentReady =
   Platform.OS === 'android' &&
   UIManager.hasViewManagerConfig('TraceUpdateOverlay');
-let devToolsAgent: ?Agent;
+let devToolsAgent: ?ReactDevToolsAgent;
 
 export default function TraceUpdateOverlay(): React.Node {
   const [overlayDisabled, setOverlayDisabled] = useState(false);
@@ -78,7 +41,7 @@ export default function TraceUpdateOverlay(): React.Node {
       return;
     }
 
-    function attachToDevtools(agent: Agent) {
+    function attachToDevtools(agent: ReactDevToolsAgent) {
       devToolsAgent = agent;
       agent.addListener('drawTraceUpdates', onAgentDrawTraceUpdates);
       agent.addListener('disableTraceUpdates', onAgentDisableTraceUpdates);
@@ -102,7 +65,7 @@ export default function TraceUpdateOverlay(): React.Node {
     }
 
     function onAgentDrawTraceUpdates(
-      nodesToDraw: Array<{node: TraceNode, color: string}> = [],
+      nodesToDraw: Array<{node: InstanceFromReactDevTools, color: string}> = [],
     ) {
       // If overlay is disabled before, now it's enabled.
       setOverlayDisabled(false);
diff --git a/packages/react-native/Libraries/Types/ReactDevToolsTypes.js b/packages/react-native/Libraries/Types/ReactDevToolsTypes.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..60a84ec821a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/react-native/Libraries/Types/ReactDevToolsTypes.js
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ *
+ * @flow strict-local
+ * @format
+ * @oncall react_native
+ */
+
+import type {NativeMethods} from '../Renderer/shims/ReactNativeTypes';
+
+type PublicInstance = {
+  ...NativeMethods,
+};
+
+export type InstanceFromReactDevTools =
+  | PublicInstance
+  | {
+      canonical?:
+        | PublicInstance // TODO: remove this variant when syncing the new version of the renderer from React to React Native.
+        | {
+            publicInstance?: PublicInstance,
+          },
+    };
+
+export type ReactDevToolsAgentEvents = {
+  drawTraceUpdates: [Array<{node: InstanceFromReactDevTools, color: string}>],
+  disableTraceUpdates: [],
+};
+
+export type ReactDevToolsAgent = {
+  selectNode(node: mixed): void,
+  addListener<Event: $Keys<ReactDevToolsAgentEvents>>(
+    event: Event,
+    listener: (...ReactDevToolsAgentEvents[Event]) => void,
+  ): void,
+  removeListener(
+    event: $Keys<ReactDevToolsAgentEvents>,
+    listener: () => void,
+  ): void,
+};
+
+export type ReactDevToolsGlobalHook = {
+  on: (eventName: string, (agent: ReactDevToolsAgent) => void) => void,
+  off: (eventName: string, (agent: ReactDevToolsAgent) => void) => void,
+  reactDevtoolsAgent?: ReactDevToolsAgent,
+};