input-systems

input-systems is a skill for Claude Code from gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills. It costs 88 tokens per session (1,853 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A game-control design layer that turns keyboard keys, controller buttons, and touch input into named actions such as “jump” or “move.”

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design action mappings, rebinding screens with conflict checks, analog controls, and responsive features such as input buffering and coyote time.
Why use it?
It keeps game logic independent of specific devices, making controls easier to rebind, save, support across devices, and adapt for accessibility.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the disciplines plugin — 15 skills shipped together , and of gamedev

Good fit Use it to design action mappings, rebinding screens with conflict checks, analog controls, and responsive features such as input buffering and coyote time.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills/input-systems
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills --skill input-systems
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install disciplines, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills.

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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,853 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 9 Aug 2026
  • Snyk pass 9 Aug 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00088 $0.01853
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00927
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00371
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00185

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4cb79ad13d54, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

input-systems scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/disciplines/input-systems/SKILL.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Input systems

Never wire gameplay to raw keys. Map physical inputs (a key, a button, a touch) to named actions (jump, interact, move), and let gameplay read actions. That one indirection gives you rebinding, multi-device support, and accessibility almost for free. This skill is the engine-neutral architecture; bind it to unity-input-system, unreal-enhanced-input, or Godot's InputMap.

When to use

  • Use to design an input layer: actions, bindings, multiple devices, and a rebinding UI with conflict detection and saved bindings.
  • Use to add analog handling (deadzones, sensitivity) and game-feel features (input buffering, coyote time).
  • Use to make controls accessible (full remapping, hold-vs-toggle, sensitivity, no required simultaneous presses).

When not to use: for an engine's concrete input package/API, use unity-input-system, unreal-enhanced-input, or Godot's InputMap. For the movement/jump physics the buffer feeds, see physics-tuning and the engine movement skill. Persisting bindings to disk is save-systems.

Core workflow

  1. Define actions, not keys. Gameplay asks "is jump pressed?", never "is Space pressed?". Actions are the stable contract; bindings are data.
  2. Bind per device. Each action holds bindings for keyboard, gamepad, and touch. The active device is whichever last sent input; swap UI prompts to match.
  3. Read the right edge. Use pressed-this-frame (edge) for discrete actions (jump, interact) and held (level) for continuous ones (move, aim). Confusing the two causes double-fires or missed presses.
  4. Filter analog input. Apply a deadzone to sticks/triggers so resting drift reads as zero, and scale sensitivity/curve to taste.
  5. Buffer for feel. Remember a pressed action for a short window so a slightly early press still fires (input buffering); allow a jump shortly after leaving a ledge (coyote time).
  6. Make rebinding first-class. A UI that captures the next input, detects conflicts, and persists bindings — and a reset-to-default. Save via save-systems.
  7. Verify on every device and with rebinds: keyboard, gamepad, touch; rebind an action mid-game and confirm gameplay and prompts follow.

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 157 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 4cb79ad13d54

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input-systems is a skill published in the GitHub repository gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills (952 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 1,853 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.